Lightning strike

Lightning strike - electric discharge between the atmosphere and the ground. Article “Lightning strike” in English Wikipedia has 82.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.18 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 “Lightning strike” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lightning strike”, its content was written by 324 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 532 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 271 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6340 in March 2014
• Global: #29109 in March 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25155 in July 2014
• Global: #21373 in August 2012

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Lightning strike		82.594
2	Japanese (ja) 落雷		59.466
3	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		45.4595
4	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		34.7521
5	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		31.0499
6	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		18.2754
7	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		18.2724
8	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		15.7302
9	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		13.6976
10	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		12.7421

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lightning strike" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lightning strike		2 733 512
2	Japanese (ja) 落雷		1 343 145
3	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		317 574
4	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		291 856
5	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		164 836
6	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		134 412
7	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		58 096
8	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		21 366
9	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		20 121
10	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		829

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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 "Lightning strike" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lightning strike		13 466
2	Japanese (ja) 落雷		2 243
3	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		882
4	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		559
5	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		477
6	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		245
7	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		170
8	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		100
9	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		87
10	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lightning strike		324
2	Japanese (ja) 落雷		102
3	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		25
4	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		23
5	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		21
6	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		14
7	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		11
8	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		8
9	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		3
10	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		1

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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 "Lightning strike" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lightning strike		2
2	Japanese (ja) 落雷		1
3	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		1
4	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		0
5	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		0
6	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		0
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		0
8	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		0
9	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		0
10	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		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 "Lightning strike" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 落雷		533
2	English (en) Lightning strike		271
3	Korean (ko) 낙뢰		128
4	Arabic (ar) صاعقة		94
5	Romanian (ro) Trăsnet		92
6	Hebrew (he) מכת ברק		85
7	Thai (th) ฟ้าผ่า		53
8	Serbian (sr) Удар грома		27
9	Persian (fa) برخورد صاعقه		7
10	Indonesian (id) Serangan petir		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صاعقة
en	English Lightning strike
fa	Persian برخورد صاعقه
he	Hebrew מכת ברק
id	Indonesian Serangan petir
ja	Japanese 落雷
ko	Korean 낙뢰
ro	Romanian Trăsnet
sr	Serbian Удар грома
th	Thai ฟ้าผ่า

Best Rank

English: #25155 07.2014

Global: #21373 08.2012

Best Rank

English: #6340 03.2014

Global: #29109 03.2014

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