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Directional drilling

Quality:

Directional drilling - practice of drilling non-vertical bores. Article “Directional drilling” in English Wikipedia has 37.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 11 sections.

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 “Directional drilling”, its content was written by 206 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 310 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 467 times in English Wikipedia and cited 914 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2596 in July 2003
  • Global: #7797 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #47709 in June 2010
  • Global: #73740 in June 2010

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Directional drilling
37.2144
2Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
30.9261
3Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
28.9782
4Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
26.4817
5Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
20.9017
6Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
20.3872
7French (fr)
Forage directionnel
13.3751
8German (de)
Richtbohren
10.9796
9Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
8.7398
10Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
6.0277
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Directional drilling" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directional drilling
1 948 552
2Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
120 077
3German (de)
Richtbohren
119 176
4French (fr)
Forage directionnel
76 866
5Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
47 847
6Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
26 137
7Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
9 397
8Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
3 113
9Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
2 897
10Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
1 025
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Directional drilling" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Directional drilling
9 140
2Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
368
3German (de)
Richtbohren
207
4French (fr)
Forage directionnel
180
5Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
94
6Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
48
7Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
42
8Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
39
9Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
22
10Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Directional drilling" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Directional drilling
206
2German (de)
Richtbohren
43
3French (fr)
Forage directionnel
25
4Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
10
5Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
8
6Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
5
7Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
5
8Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
4
9Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
2
10Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Directional drilling" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
0
2German (de)
Richtbohren
0
3English (en)
Directional drilling
0
4Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
0
5French (fr)
Forage directionnel
0
6Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
0
7Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
0
8Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
0
9Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
0
10Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Directional drilling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Directional drilling
467
2Persian (fa)
حفاری جهت‌دار
175
3Arabic (ar)
حفر موجه
139
4French (fr)
Forage directionnel
42
5Russian (ru)
Наклонно-направленное бурение
30
6German (de)
Richtbohren
29
7Chinese (zh)
定向鑽孔
15
8Ukrainian (uk)
Похило-скероване буріння
10
9Polish (pl)
Otwór kierunkowy
6
10Slovenian (sl)
Usmerjeno vrtanje
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حفر موجه
deGerman
Richtbohren
enEnglish
Directional drilling
faPersian
حفاری جهت‌دار
frFrench
Forage directionnel
plPolish
Otwór kierunkowy
ruRussian
Наклонно-направленное бурение
slSlovenian
Usmerjeno vrtanje
ukUkrainian
Похило-скероване буріння
zhChinese
定向鑽孔

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#47709
06.2010
Global:
#73740
06.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2596
07.2003
Global:
#7797
07.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Directional drilling from Wikipedia articles about Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Kuwaiti oil fires, Invasion of Kuwait and Hydraulic fracturing. Whereas reading the article about Directional drilling people most often go to Wikipedia articles on East Texas Oil Field, Rotary steerable system, Directional boring, Mud motor and Oil well.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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