Ballast tank

Ballast tank - compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure. Article “Ballast tank” in English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.9 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Ballast tank”, its content was written by 99 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 175 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 373 times in English Wikipedia and cited 778 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #32418 in December 2021
• Global: #57327 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #79830 in June 2023
• Global: #135731 in June 2023

There are 9 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 July 1, 2025 (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	English (en) Ballast tank		35.6009
2	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		17.637
3	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		16.6987
4	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		14.8581
5	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		14.2135
6	German (de) Trimmtank		13.4896
7	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		11.2199
8	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		6.5087
9	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		3.9308

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ballast tank" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast tank		969 849
2	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		71 094
3	German (de) Trimmtank		55 368
4	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		21 062
5	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		19 761
6	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		18 286
7	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		13 235
8	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		1 148
9	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		60

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ballast tank" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast tank		3 403
2	German (de) Trimmtank		200
3	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		112
4	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		47
5	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		45
6	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		28
7	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		23
8	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		18
9	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		11

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

Language versions of the article "Ballast tank" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ballast tank		99
2	German (de) Trimmtank		25
3	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		21
4	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		14
5	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		5
6	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		4
7	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		2
9	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		2

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

Language versions of the article "Ballast tank" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		0
2	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		0
3	German (de) Trimmtank		0
4	English (en) Ballast tank		0
5	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		0
6	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		0
7	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		0
9	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		0

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

Language versions of the article "Ballast tank" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ballast tank		373
2	Polish (pl) Zbiornik balastowy		316
3	Dutch (nl) Ballasttank		36
4	German (de) Trimmtank		28
5	Czech (cs) Balastní nádrž		10
6	Thai (th) ถังอับเฉา		7
7	Malay (ms) Tangki pengimbang		5
8	Arabic (ar) صهريج سائل الرص		3
9	Portuguese (pt) Tanque de lastro		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صهريج سائل الرص
cs	Czech Balastní nádrž
de	German Trimmtank
en	English Ballast tank
ms	Malay Tangki pengimbang
nl	Dutch Ballasttank
pl	Polish Zbiornik balastowy
pt	Portuguese Tanque de lastro
th	Thai ถังอับเฉา

Best Rank

English: #79830 06.2023

Global: #135731 06.2023

Best Rank

English: #32418 12.2021

Global: #57327 09.2004

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