Hering illusion

Hering illusion - optical illusion. Article “Hering illusion” in English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 1 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.19 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Hering illusion”, its content was written by 24 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 85 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 120 times in English Wikipedia and cited 319 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #107060 in July 2016
• Global: #100626 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #46963 in June 2008
• Global: #77312 in June 2008

There are 14 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	German (de) Hering-Täuschung		25.0335
2	Russian (ru) Иллюзия Геринга		23.9366
3	Armenian (hy) Հերինգի տեսողական պատրանք		22.9873
4	Arabic (ar) خداع هيرينغ		22.6619
5	English (en) Hering illusion		22.517
6	Chinese (zh) 黑林错觉		19.1933
7	Korean (ko) 헤링 착시		14.635
8	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		12.9501
9	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		12.4505
10	Swedish (sv) Herings illusion		9.0569

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hering illusion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hering illusion		227 146
2	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		45 438
3	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		43 678
4	Russian (ru) Иллюзия Геринга		33 613
5	Spanish (es) Ilusión de Hering		21 770
6	Chinese (zh) 黑林错觉		10 279
7	Dutch (nl) Hering-illusie		7 609
8	Swedish (sv) Herings illusion		7 074
9	Bulgarian (bg) Илюзия на Херинг		7 057
10	Korean (ko) 헤링 착시		4 340

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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 "Hering illusion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hering illusion		725
2	Chinese (zh) 黑林错觉		130
3	Korean (ko) 헤링 착시		90
4	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		83
5	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		65
6	Russian (ru) Иллюзия Геринга		48
7	Spanish (es) Ilusión de Hering		41
8	German (de) Hering-Täuschung		36
9	Dutch (nl) Hering-illusie		17
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ілюзія Герінга		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hering illusion		24
2	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		15
3	Dutch (nl) Hering-illusie		8
4	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		7
5	Russian (ru) Иллюзия Геринга		7
6	German (de) Hering-Täuschung		5
7	Chinese (zh) 黑林错觉		4
8	Bulgarian (bg) Илюзия на Херинг		3
9	Spanish (es) Ilusión de Hering		3
10	Arabic (ar) خداع هيرينغ		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 "Hering illusion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) خداع هيرينغ		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Илюзия на Херинг		0
3	German (de) Hering-Täuschung		0
4	English (en) Hering illusion		0
5	Spanish (es) Ilusión de Hering		0
6	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		0
7	Armenian (hy) Հերինգի տեսողական պատրանք		0
8	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		0
9	Korean (ko) 헤링 착시		0
10	Dutch (nl) Hering-illusie		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 "Hering illusion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hering illusion		120
2	Russian (ru) Иллюзия Геринга		50
3	French (fr) Illusion de Hering		33
4	Japanese (ja) ヘリング錯視		30
5	Chinese (zh) 黑林错觉		29
6	Arabic (ar) خداع هيرينغ		28
7	Korean (ko) 헤링 착시		7
8	Spanish (es) Ilusión de Hering		5
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ілюзія Герінга		4
10	Bulgarian (bg) Илюзия на Херинг		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خداع هيرينغ
bg	Bulgarian Илюзия на Херинг
de	German Hering-Täuschung
en	English Hering illusion
es	Spanish Ilusión de Hering
fr	French Illusion de Hering
hy	Armenian Հերինգի տեսողական պատրանք
ja	Japanese ヘリング錯視
ko	Korean 헤링 착시
nl	Dutch Hering-illusie
ru	Russian Иллюзия Геринга
sv	Swedish Herings illusion
uk	Ukrainian Ілюзія Герінга
zh	Chinese 黑林错觉

Best Rank

English: #46963 06.2008

Global: #77312 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #107060 07.2016

Global: #100626 06.2011

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