Mach bands

Mach bands - optical illusion. Article “Mach bands” in English Wikipedia has 34.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 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 “Mach bands”, its content was written by 78 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 234 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 138 times in English Wikipedia and cited 347 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #31615 in September 2003
• Global: #18416 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #99645 in October 2012
• Global: #128046 in October 2008

There are 16 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) Mach bands		34.6462
2	Chinese (zh) 马赫带		26.4346
3	Thai (th) แถบมัค		24.8808
4	Persian (fa) باندهای ماخ		24.245
5	Catalan (ca) Bandes de Mach		22.631
6	Russian (ru) Полосы Маха		21.3224
7	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		17.3145
8	Portuguese (pt) Bandas de Mach		14.2591
9	Swedish (sv) Machs band		13.7138
10	German (de) Machsche Streifen		11.9677

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mach bands" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mach bands		751 755
2	German (de) Machsche Streifen		187 437
3	Japanese (ja) マッハバンド		138 323
4	Polish (pl) Pasmo Macha		46 172
5	Spanish (es) Bandas de Mach		42 629
6	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		40 049
7	Italian (it) Effetto Mach		33 914
8	Czech (cs) Machovy proužky		15 130
9	Portuguese (pt) Bandas de Mach		13 033
10	Russian (ru) Полосы Маха		11 262

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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 "Mach bands" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mach bands		1 907
2	Japanese (ja) マッハバンド		353
3	German (de) Machsche Streifen		227
4	Russian (ru) Полосы Маха		136
5	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		126
6	Italian (it) Effetto Mach		119
7	Chinese (zh) 马赫带		106
8	Polish (pl) Pasmo Macha		92
9	Spanish (es) Bandas de Mach		82
10	Hungarian (hu) Mach-sávok		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mach bands		78
2	German (de) Machsche Streifen		50
3	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		25
4	Italian (it) Effetto Mach		23
5	Japanese (ja) マッハバンド		11
6	Czech (cs) Machovy proužky		9
7	Hungarian (hu) Mach-sávok		9
8	Polish (pl) Pasmo Macha		6
9	Portuguese (pt) Bandas de Mach		5
10	Catalan (ca) Bandes de Mach		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 "Mach bands" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Bandes de Mach		0
2	Czech (cs) Machovy proužky		0
3	German (de) Machsche Streifen		0
4	English (en) Mach bands		0
5	Spanish (es) Bandas de Mach		0
6	Persian (fa) باندهای ماخ		0
7	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Mach-sávok		0
9	Italian (it) Effetto Mach		0
10	Japanese (ja) マッハバンド		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 "Mach bands" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mach bands		138
2	Russian (ru) Полосы Маха		49
3	French (fr) Bandes de Mach		41
4	Japanese (ja) マッハバンド		36
5	Chinese (zh) 马赫带		30
6	German (de) Machsche Streifen		19
7	Spanish (es) Bandas de Mach		9
8	Italian (it) Effetto Mach		5
9	Polish (pl) Pasmo Macha		4
10	Czech (cs) Machovy proužky		3

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bandes de Mach
cs	Czech Machovy proužky
de	German Machsche Streifen
en	English Mach bands
es	Spanish Bandas de Mach
fa	Persian باندهای ماخ
fr	French Bandes de Mach
hu	Hungarian Mach-sávok
it	Italian Effetto Mach
ja	Japanese マッハバンド
pl	Polish Pasmo Macha
pt	Portuguese Bandas de Mach
ru	Russian Полосы Маха
sv	Swedish Machs band
th	Thai แถบมัค
zh	Chinese 马赫带

Best Rank

English: #99645 10.2012

Global: #128046 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #31615 09.2003

Global: #18416 05.2004

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