Dark matter

Quality:

Dark matter - mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe. Article “Dark matter” in English Wikipedia has 95.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 253 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3962^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1489^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4014^th most popular in all topics.

The 2649^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 983^rd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9456^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2030^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Dark matter” was edited by 26 authors in English Wikipedia (983^rd place) and written by 45 authors in all languages (2030^th place).

Since the creation of article “Dark matter”, its content was written by 1709 registered users of English Wikipedia (1489^th place) and edited by 4641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2649^th place).

The article is cited 1269 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9102 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #334 in February 2005
• Global: #287 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #738 in March 2012
• Global: #1241 in September 2008

There are 52 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	Korean (ko) 암흑물질		99.542
2	English (en) Dark matter		95.1458
3	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		93.8462
4	Basque (eu) Materia ilun		85.6818
5	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		74.6238
6	German (de) Dunkle Materie		63.9649
7	Estonian (et) Tumeaine		63.4452
8	Catalan (ca) Matèria fosca		58.2853
9	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		52.3801
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vật chất tối		51.7328

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark matter		22 927 611
2	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		3 573 022
3	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		3 487 692
4	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		2 978 441
5	German (de) Dunkle Materie		2 257 915
6	French (fr) Matière noire		1 738 539
7	Italian (it) Materia oscura		1 210 638
8	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		1 116 903
9	Polish (pl) Ciemna materia		966 692
10	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		832 019

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) Dark matter		58 987
2	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		10 918
3	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		8 459
4	German (de) Dunkle Materie		6 071
5	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		5 604
6	French (fr) Matière noire		4 729
7	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		3 843
8	Italian (it) Materia oscura		2 706
9	Polish (pl) Ciemna materia		2 018
10	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		1 909

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark matter		1 709
2	German (de) Dunkle Materie		371
3	French (fr) Matière noire		273
4	Italian (it) Materia oscura		192
5	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		185
6	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		160
7	Dutch (nl) Donkere materie		122
8	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		119
9	Hebrew (he) חומר אפל		99
10	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		89

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) Dark matter		26
2	French (fr) Matière noire		9
3	German (de) Dunkle Materie		2
4	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		2
5	Korean (ko) 암흑물질		2
6	Catalan (ca) Matèria fosca		1
7	Czech (cs) Temná hmota		1
8	Italian (it) Materia oscura		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		1
10	Arabic (ar) المادة المظلمة		0

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

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