Earth ellipsoid

Reference ellipsoid - ellipsoid that approximates the figure of the Earth. Article “Earth ellipsoid” in English Wikipedia has 50.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.64 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.

In June 2025 the article “Earth ellipsoid” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Earth ellipsoid”, its content was written by 125 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 484 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 191 times in English Wikipedia and cited 855 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40005 in April 2004
• Global: #26673 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19221 in August 2010
• Global: #33327 in August 2010

There are 25 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) Earth ellipsoid		50.2328
2	Catalan (ca) El·lipsoide de referència		38.0477
3	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		29.993
4	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		23.3629
5	Kazakh (kk) Референц-эллипсоид		21.0544
6	Vietnamese (vi) Ellipsoid quy chiếu		20.9849
7	Chinese (zh) 参考椭球		20.5737
8	Galician (gl) Elipsoide de referencia		18.908
9	Arabic (ar) سطح ناقصي مرجعي		17.3345
10	Serbian (sr) Referentni elipsoid		16.4883

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Earth ellipsoid" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Earth ellipsoid		1 482 025
2	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		274 621
3	Italian (it) Ellissoide di riferimento		177 176
4	Portuguese (pt) Elipsoide de referência		159 090
5	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		93 821
6	French (fr) Modèle ellipsoïdal de la Terre		82 882
7	Chinese (zh) 参考椭球		50 466
8	Czech (cs) Referenční elipsoid		34 835
9	Finnish (fi) Vertausellipsoidi		24 671
10	Dutch (nl) Referentie-ellipsoïde		23 519

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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 "Earth ellipsoid" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Earth ellipsoid		4 908
2	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		508
3	Simple English (simple) Reference ellipsoid		277
4	Chinese (zh) 参考椭球		257
5	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		255
6	Italian (it) Ellissoide di riferimento		196
7	French (fr) Modèle ellipsoïdal de la Terre		187
8	Dutch (nl) Referentie-ellipsoïde		99
9	Portuguese (pt) Elipsoide de referência		95
10	Czech (cs) Referenční elipsoid		81

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Earth ellipsoid		125
2	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		96
3	French (fr) Modèle ellipsoïdal de la Terre		42
4	Italian (it) Ellissoide di riferimento		41
5	Dutch (nl) Referentie-ellipsoïde		26
6	Finnish (fi) Vertausellipsoidi		19
7	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		17
8	Portuguese (pt) Elipsoide de referência		14
9	Chinese (zh) 参考椭球		11
10	Czech (cs) Referenční elipsoid		10

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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 "Earth ellipsoid" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Referentie-ellipsoïde		4
2	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		2
3	English (en) Earth ellipsoid		1
4	Arabic (ar) سطح ناقصي مرجعي		0
5	Catalan (ca) El·lipsoide de referència		0
6	Czech (cs) Referenční elipsoid		0
7	Danish (da) Referenceellipsoide		0
8	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		0
9	Greek (el) Ελλειψοειδές αναφοράς		0
10	Estonian (et) Referentsellipsoid		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 "Earth ellipsoid" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Referenzellipsoid		195
2	English (en) Earth ellipsoid		191
3	Chinese (zh) 参考椭球		78
4	French (fr) Modèle ellipsoïdal de la Terre		51
5	Arabic (ar) سطح ناقصي مرجعي		40
6	Dutch (nl) Referentie-ellipsoïde		35
7	Ukrainian (uk) Референц-еліпсоїд		35
8	Italian (it) Ellissoide di riferimento		31
9	Portuguese (pt) Elipsoide de referência		29
10	Spanish (es) Elipsoide de referencia		28

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سطح ناقصي مرجعي
ca	Catalan El·lipsoide de referència
cs	Czech Referenční elipsoid
da	Danish Referenceellipsoide
de	German Referenzellipsoid
el	Greek Ελλειψοειδές αναφοράς
en	English Earth ellipsoid
es	Spanish Elipsoide de referencia
et	Estonian Referentsellipsoid
eu	Basque Erreferentziazko elipsoide
fa	Persian بیضی‌وار مرجع
fi	Finnish Vertausellipsoidi
fr	French Modèle ellipsoïdal de la Terre
gl	Galician Elipsoide de referencia
it	Italian Ellissoide di riferimento
kk	Kazakh Референц-эллипсоид
nl	Dutch Referentie-ellipsoïde
pt	Portuguese Elipsoide de referência
simple	Simple English Reference ellipsoid
sr	Serbian Referentni elipsoid
sv	Swedish Referensellipsoid
tr	Turkish Referans elipsoid
uk	Ukrainian Референц-еліпсоїд
vi	Vietnamese Ellipsoid quy chiếu
zh	Chinese 参考椭球

Best Rank

English: #19221 08.2010

Global: #33327 08.2010

Best Rank

English: #40005 04.2004

Global: #26673 11.2003

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