Observational error

Quality:

Measurement error - difference between a measured quantity value and a reference quantity value. Article “Observational error” in English Wikipedia has 35.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.88 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 “Observational error”, its content was written by 201 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 801 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 638 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2307 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #80 in February 2001
• Global: #80 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19437 in September 2014
• Global: #9545 in September 2014

There are 30 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) Messabweichung		45.7182
2	French (fr) Erreur de mesure		41.3941
3	English (en) Observational error		35.7551
4	Russian (ru) Погрешность измерения		34.4624
5	Catalan (ca) Error experimental		30.5673
6	Malay (ms) Ralat pemerhatian		25.8141
7	Chinese (zh) 测量误差		24.1026
8	Hebrew (he) שגיאת מדידה		23.9617
9	Korean (ko) 관측 오차		22.5972
10	Arabic (ar) خطأ الملاحظة		20.6595

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Observational error		3 369 666
2	Russian (ru) Погрешность измерения		3 292 677
3	Spanish (es) Error de medición		2 383 717
4	German (de) Messabweichung		1 169 759
5	Ukrainian (uk) Похибка вимірювання		674 024
6	French (fr) Erreur de mesure		593 157
7	Italian (it) Errore di misurazione		466 112
8	Polish (pl) Błąd pomiaru		432 618
9	Czech (cs) Chyba měření		253 215
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sai số		220 856

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Observational error		4 495
2	Russian (ru) Погрешность измерения		3 743
3	Chinese (zh) 测量误差		982
4	German (de) Messabweichung		914
5	Spanish (es) Error de medición		732
6	Ukrainian (uk) Похибка вимірювання		493
7	French (fr) Erreur de mesure		460
8	Polish (pl) Błąd pomiaru		449
9	Italian (it) Errore di misurazione		356
10	Czech (cs) Chyba měření		318

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Observational error		201
2	German (de) Messabweichung		115
3	Russian (ru) Погрешность измерения		97
4	Italian (it) Errore di misurazione		81
5	French (fr) Erreur de mesure		74
6	Spanish (es) Error de medición		38
7	Ukrainian (uk) Похибка вимірювання		28
8	Czech (cs) Chyba měření		17
9	Polish (pl) Błąd pomiaru		16
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sai số		16

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Погрешность измерения		1
2	Arabic (ar) خطأ الملاحظة		0
3	Belarusian (be) Хібнасць		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Грешки при измерване		0
5	Catalan (ca) Error experimental		0
6	Czech (cs) Chyba měření		0
7	German (de) Messabweichung		0
8	Greek (el) Θεωρία σφαλμάτων		0
9	English (en) Observational error		0
10	Spanish (es) Error de medición		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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