History of ballooning

History of ballooning - aspect of history. Article “History of ballooning” in English Wikipedia has 90.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 94 references and 15 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.

In June 2025 the article “History of ballooning” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of ballooning”, its content was written by 128 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in English Wikipedia and cited 143 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14153 in June 2014
• Global: #46477 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #106134 in December 2019
• Global: #92417 in December 2014

There are 5 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) History of ballooning		90.7365
2	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		87.8048
3	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		46.5679
4	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		45.4765
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		43.1824

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

The most popular language versions of the article "History of ballooning" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of ballooning		581 806
2	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		224 719
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		89 495
4	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		52 731
5	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		20 210

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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 "History of ballooning" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of ballooning		3 076
2	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		411
3	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		373
4	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		293
5	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		29

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of ballooning		128
2	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		74
3	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		42
4	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		25
5	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		4

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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 "History of ballooning" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of ballooning		2
2	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		1
3	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		1
4	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		0
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		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 "History of ballooning" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Histoire de l'aérostation		50
2	English (en) History of ballooning		43
3	Greek (el) Ιστορία της αεροστατικής		32
4	Russian (ru) История воздухоплавания		12
5	Japanese (ja) 風船の歴史		6

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#	Language	Value
el	Greek Ιστορία της αεροστατικής
en	English History of ballooning
fr	French Histoire de l'aérostation
ja	Japanese 風船の歴史
ru	Russian История воздухоплавания

Best Rank

English: #106134 12.2019

Global: #92417 12.2014

Best Rank

English: #14153 06.2014

Global: #46477 06.2014

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