Ship ballast

Sailing ballast - used in sailboats to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the sail. Article “Ship ballast” in English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.51 points.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Ship ballast”, its content was written by 79 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 445 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 386 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1475 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #58534 in April 2005
• Global: #39231 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #108300 in June 2019
• Global: #24088 in May 2014

There are 19 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	Catalan (ca) Llast (nàutica)		56.9831
2	English (en) Ship ballast		28.7254
3	German (de) Ballastwasser		24.7265
4	Portuguese (pt) Água de lastro		24.2032
5	Finnish (fi) Painolasti		22.7171
6	Arabic (ar) صابورة		21.3964
7	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		21.2286
8	Greek (el) Ερματισμός		16.722
9	Ukrainian (uk) Баласт судна		15.9729
10	Romanian (ro) Balast (nave)		14.1833

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ship ballast" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ship ballast		773 236
2	Japanese (ja) バラスト水		570 396
3	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		303 220
4	Spanish (es) Aguas de lastre		152 473
5	German (de) Ballastwasser		126 843
6	Portuguese (pt) Água de lastro		105 577
7	Greek (el) Ερματισμός		75 402
8	Chinese (zh) 壓艙水		63 934
9	Russian (ru) Балласт на надводных плавучих средствах		54 384
10	Polish (pl) Balast (żeglarstwo)		49 337

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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 "Ship ballast" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ship ballast		3 167
2	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		1 296
3	Japanese (ja) バラスト水		1 006
4	German (de) Ballastwasser		356
5	Russian (ru) Балласт на надводных плавучих средствах		290
6	Chinese (zh) 壓艙水		249
7	Spanish (es) Aguas de lastre		155
8	Finnish (fi) Painolasti		117
9	Greek (el) Ερματισμός		113
10	Portuguese (pt) Água de lastro		71

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		90
2	English (en) Ship ballast		79
3	German (de) Ballastwasser		50
4	Japanese (ja) バラスト水		35
5	Dutch (nl) Ballastwater		23
6	Portuguese (pt) Água de lastro		22
7	Russian (ru) Балласт на надводных плавучих средствах		19
8	Norwegian (no) Ballastvann		18
9	Croatian (hr) Balast		17
10	Polish (pl) Balast (żeglarstwo)		16

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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 "Ship ballast" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) صابورة		0
2	Catalan (ca) Llast (nàutica)		0
3	German (de) Ballastwasser		0
4	Greek (el) Ερματισμός		0
5	English (en) Ship ballast		0
6	Spanish (es) Aguas de lastre		0
7	Finnish (fi) Painolasti		0
8	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		0
9	Hebrew (he) מי נטל		0
10	Croatian (hr) Balast		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 "Ship ballast" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ship ballast		386
2	French (fr) Ballast (marine)		372
3	German (de) Ballastwasser		98
4	Polish (pl) Balast (żeglarstwo)		86
5	Chinese (zh) 壓艙水		71
6	Japanese (ja) バラスト水		65
7	Russian (ru) Балласт на надводных плавучих средствах		54
8	Portuguese (pt) Água de lastro		46
9	Finnish (fi) Painolasti		44
10	Ukrainian (uk) Баласт судна		38

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صابورة
ca	Catalan Llast (nàutica)
de	German Ballastwasser
el	Greek Ερματισμός
en	English Ship ballast
es	Spanish Aguas de lastre
fi	Finnish Painolasti
fr	French Ballast (marine)
he	Hebrew מי נטל
hr	Croatian Balast
ja	Japanese バラスト水
nl	Dutch Ballastwater
no	Norwegian Ballastvann
pl	Polish Balast (żeglarstwo)
pt	Portuguese Água de lastro
ro	Romanian Balast (nave)
ru	Russian Балласт на надводных плавучих средствах
uk	Ukrainian Баласт судна
zh	Chinese 壓艙水

Best Rank

English: #108300 06.2019

Global: #24088 05.2014

Best Rank

English: #58534 04.2005

Global: #39231 10.2011

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