Space elevator

Quality:

Space elevator - proposed type of space transportation system. Article “Space elevator” in English Wikipedia has 93.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 152 references and 30 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7661^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9074^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Space elevator” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Space elevator”, its content was written by 957 registered users of English Wikipedia (7661^st place) and edited by 2691 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9074^th place).

The article is cited 257 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1742 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #143 in April 2004
• Global: #465 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4427 in May 2011
• Global: #8239 in December 2008

There are 43 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, 2026 (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) Space elevator		93.6826
2	Hungarian (hu) Űrlift		80.7788
3	Hebrew (he) מעלית חלל		60.8972
4	Latin (la) Elevatrum spatiale		59.8004
5	German (de) Weltraumlift		52.1467
6	Croatian (hr) Svemirsko dizalo		51.4129
7	Portuguese (pt) Elevador espacial		45.4955
8	Polish (pl) Winda kosmiczna		45.4185
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Svemirski lift		41.6844
10	Italian (it) Ascensore spaziale		38.7097

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space elevator		6 478 075
2	Japanese (ja) 軌道エレベータ		1 819 135
3	Polish (pl) Winda kosmiczna		961 727
4	Russian (ru) Космический лифт		925 416
5	German (de) Weltraumlift		656 864
6	French (fr) Ascenseur spatial		342 613
7	Chinese (zh) 太空電梯		288 211
8	Spanish (es) Ascensor espacial		274 145
9	Italian (it) Ascensore spaziale		175 426
10	Portuguese (pt) Elevador espacial		99 640

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) Space elevator		13 787
2	Japanese (ja) 軌道エレベータ		2 432
3	Russian (ru) Космический лифт		1 208
4	German (de) Weltraumlift		992
5	Chinese (zh) 太空電梯		857
6	French (fr) Ascenseur spatial		663
7	Italian (it) Ascensore spaziale		268
8	Spanish (es) Ascensor espacial		254
9	Polish (pl) Winda kosmiczna		234
10	Portuguese (pt) Elevador espacial		189

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space elevator		957
2	German (de) Weltraumlift		263
3	Japanese (ja) 軌道エレベータ		214
4	Russian (ru) Космический лифт		165
5	French (fr) Ascenseur spatial		159
6	Italian (it) Ascensore spaziale		148
7	Dutch (nl) Ruimtelift		84
8	Chinese (zh) 太空電梯		72
9	Polish (pl) Winda kosmiczna		66
10	Hebrew (he) מעלית חלל		61

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) Space elevator		2
2	Arabic (ar) مصعد الفضاء		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Űrlift		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kosmik lift		0
5	Belarusian (be) Касмічны ліфт		0
6	Catalan (ca) Ascensor espacial		0
7	Czech (cs) Orbitální výtah		0
8	Danish (da) Rumelevator		0
9	German (de) Weltraumlift		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Kosmolifto		0

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

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