Schaltsekunde

Quality:

35

Leap second - extra second inserted or removed to keep civil time in sync with the Earth's rotation. Article "Schaltsekunde" in German Wikipedia has 35.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 15 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In July 2024 the article "Schaltsekunde" was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Schaltsekunde", its content was written by 194 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1824 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 74 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2325 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #594 in June 2015
• Global: #85 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1176 in June 2015
• Global: #661 in June 2015

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 闰秒		85.3599
2	English (en) Leap second		81.1339
3	Japanese (ja) 閏秒		57.9385
4	Greek (el) Εμβόλιμο δευτερόλεπτο		57.3454
5	Ukrainian (uk) Високосна секунда		52.819
6	Malay (ms) Saat lompat		51.7802
7	German (de) Schaltsekunde		35.3301
8	French (fr) Seconde intercalaire		34.7837
9	Russian (ru) Дополнительная секунда		34.7114
10	Finnish (fi) Karkaussekunti		34.2977

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leap second		4 356 669
2	Japanese (ja) 閏秒		1 268 224
3	German (de) Schaltsekunde		549 660
4	Russian (ru) Дополнительная секунда		407 515
5	Spanish (es) Segundo intercalar		225 063
6	Polish (pl) Sekunda przestępna		221 359
7	French (fr) Seconde intercalaire		207 747
8	Chinese (zh) 闰秒		191 855
9	Italian (it) Secondo intercalare		172 532
10	Dutch (nl) Schrikkelseconde		138 084

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leap second		15 339
2	Japanese (ja) 閏秒		1 935
3	German (de) Schaltsekunde		1 755
4	Russian (ru) Дополнительная секунда		1 307
5	Chinese (zh) 闰秒		1 091
6	French (fr) Seconde intercalaire		651
7	Spanish (es) Segundo intercalar		638
8	Italian (it) Secondo intercalare		430
9	Polish (pl) Sekunda przestępna		360
10	Dutch (nl) Schrikkelseconde		277

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leap second		495
2	German (de) Schaltsekunde		194
3	French (fr) Seconde intercalaire		121
4	Japanese (ja) 閏秒		97
5	Italian (it) Secondo intercalare		74
6	Dutch (nl) Schrikkelseconde		74
7	Russian (ru) Дополнительная секунда		72
8	Chinese (zh) 闰秒		59
9	Polish (pl) Sekunda przestępna		55
10	Hebrew (he) דקה מעוברת		54

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leap second		7
2	German (de) Schaltsekunde		2
3	Serbian (sr) Prestupna sekunda		2
4	Chinese (zh) 闰秒		2
5	Czech (cs) Přestupná sekunda		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Szökőmásodperc		1
7	Indonesian (id) Detik kabisat		1
8	Japanese (ja) 閏秒		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Високосна секунда		1
10	Arabic (ar) ثانية كبيسة		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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