Black ice

Black ice - transparent coating of glazed ice on a surface. Article “Black ice” in English Wikipedia has 47.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Black ice”, its content was written by 241 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 686 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 350 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2342 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9824 in March 2009
• Global: #27227 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13204 in December 2010
• Global: #15651 in December 2010

There are 31 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	Chinese (zh) 黑冰		48.2123
2	English (en) Black ice		47.7719
3	Catalan (ca) Glaç negre		47.2782
4	Spanish (es) Hielo negro		34.8147
5	Russian (ru) Гололедица		32.638
6	Serbian (sr) Поледица		30.9468
7	Croatian (hr) Poledica		30.8947
8	Tamil (ta) கரும் பனி		30.2427
9	Galician (gl) Xeo negro		29.8251
10	Polish (pl) Gołoledź		28.0746

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Black ice" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black ice		3 041 363
2	Japanese (ja) 路面凍結		437 913
3	Polish (pl) Gołoledź		392 433
4	German (de) Winterglätte		263 469
5	Russian (ru) Гололедица		217 886
6	Spanish (es) Hielo negro		163 460
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ожеледь		91 337
8	French (fr) Glace noire		66 753
9	Chinese (zh) 黑冰		54 586
10	Finnish (fi) Musta jää		50 063

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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 "Black ice" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black ice		8 403
2	Spanish (es) Hielo negro		570
3	Chinese (zh) 黑冰		386
4	Russian (ru) Гололедица		273
5	Polish (pl) Gołoledź		266
6	German (de) Winterglätte		258
7	French (fr) Glace noire		183
8	Korean (ko) 블랙아이스		181
9	Japanese (ja) 路面凍結		177
10	Portuguese (pt) Gelo negro		165

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black ice		241
2	German (de) Winterglätte		80
3	Russian (ru) Гололедица		45
4	Japanese (ja) 路面凍結		43
5	Polish (pl) Gołoledź		33
6	Finnish (fi) Musta jää		24
7	French (fr) Glace noire		24
8	Danish (da) Frysende våde vejbaner		20
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ожеледь		20
10	Czech (cs) Náledí		17

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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 "Black ice" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Gołoledź		1
2	Arabic (ar) جليد أسود		0
3	Belarusian (be) Галалёдзіца		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Поледица		0
5	Catalan (ca) Glaç negre		0
6	Czech (cs) Náledí		0
7	Danish (da) Frysende våde vejbaner		0
8	German (de) Winterglätte		0
9	English (en) Black ice		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Glatglacio		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 "Black ice" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Ожеледь		354
2	English (en) Black ice		350
3	Russian (ru) Гололедица		299
4	Arabic (ar) جليد أسود		214
5	Japanese (ja) 路面凍結		202
6	Chinese (zh) 黑冰		125
7	Persian (fa) یخ شفاف		120
8	Czech (cs) Náledí		118
9	Belarusian (be) Галалёдзіца		86
10	Portuguese (pt) Gelo negro		79

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جليد أسود
be	Belarusian Галалёдзіца
bg	Bulgarian Поледица
ca	Catalan Glaç negre
cs	Czech Náledí
da	Danish Frysende våde vejbaner
de	German Winterglätte
en	English Black ice
eo	Esperanto Glatglacio
es	Spanish Hielo negro
eu	Basque Izotz beltz
fa	Persian یخ شفاف
fi	Finnish Musta jää
fr	French Glace noire
gl	Galician Xeo negro
he	Hebrew קרח שחור
hr	Croatian Poledica
it	Italian Ghiaccio nero (meteorologia)
ja	Japanese 路面凍結
ko	Korean 블랙아이스
lt	Lithuanian Plikledis
pl	Polish Gołoledź
pt	Portuguese Gelo negro
ru	Russian Гололедица
sr	Serbian Поледица
sv	Swedish Blixthalka
ta	Tamil கரும் பனி
uk	Ukrainian Ожеледь
ur	Urdu کالی برف
vi	Vietnamese Băng đen
zh	Chinese 黑冰

Best Rank

English: #13204 12.2010

Global: #15651 12.2010

Best Rank

English: #9824 03.2009

Global: #27227 10.2017

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