Rogue wave

Quality:

Rogue wave - relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out at sea. Article “Rogue wave” in English Wikipedia has 86.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 187 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.54 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 “Rogue wave” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rogue wave”, its content was written by 589 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 459 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1804 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #472 in May 2004
• Global: #2486 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #942 in December 2022
• Global: #1914 in December 2022

There are 31 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) Rogue wave		86.3513
2	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		62.1426
3	German (de) Monsterwelle		48.3742
4	French (fr) Vague scélérate		45.495
5	Catalan (ca) Onada gegant		38.216
6	Swedish (sv) Monstervåg		38.0808
7	Hebrew (he) גל פרא		37.2073
8	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		36.675
9	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		34.2753
10	Arabic (ar) موجة مارقة		33.9332

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rogue wave		8 031 634
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		1 905 122
3	French (fr) Vague scélérate		1 487 782
4	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		1 425 125
5	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		644 674
6	Italian (it) Onda anomala		286 551
7	Japanese (ja) 巨大波		266 551
8	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		216 213
9	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		171 064
10	Dutch (nl) Monstergolf		138 526

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) Rogue wave		30 796
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		7 526
3	French (fr) Vague scélérate		6 292
4	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		5 175
5	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		2 243
6	Japanese (ja) 巨大波		930
7	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		852
8	Italian (it) Onda anomala		801
9	Polish (pl) Fala wyjątkowa		631
10	Portuguese (pt) Vagalhão		302

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rogue wave		589
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		317
3	French (fr) Vague scélérate		224
4	Russian (ru) Волны-убийцы		106
5	Italian (it) Onda anomala		56
6	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		55
7	Hebrew (he) גל פרא		42
8	Norwegian (no) Monsterbølge		36
9	Dutch (nl) Monstergolf		34
10	Chinese (zh) 瘋狗浪		31

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	English (en) Rogue wave		3
2	German (de) Monsterwelle		1
3	Japanese (ja) 巨大波		1
4	Arabic (ar) موجة مارقة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qatil dalğaları		0
6	Catalan (ca) Onada gegant		0
7	Czech (cs) Rogue wave		0
8	Danish (da) Ekstrem havbølge		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Giganta ondo		0
10	Spanish (es) Ola gigante		0

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

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