Space colonization

Space colonization - concept of permanent colonies outside of the astronomical body of origin – especially human settlements outside Earth. Article "Space colonization" in English Wikipedia has 95.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 339 references and 30 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Space colonization" was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Space colonization", its content was written by 1018 registered users of English Wikipedia (6199^th place) and edited by 2140 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1549 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4785 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1401 in December 2003
• Global: #4306 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12869 in June 2023
• Global: #20833 in March 2009

There are 36 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	Arabic (ar) استعمار الفضاء		100
2	Catalan (ca) Colonització de l'espai		100
3	Spanish (es) Colonización del espacio		99.5861
4	English (en) Space colonization		95.6472
5	French (fr) Colonisation de l'espace		92.0857
6	Turkish (tr) Uzay kolonizasyonu		91.3276
7	Estonian (et) Kosmose koloniseerimine		69.7239
8	German (de) Weltraumkolonisierung		66.639
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thuộc địa hoá không gian		54.8803
10	Chinese (zh) 太空移民		54.295

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Space colonization" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space colonization		5 496 179
2	Russian (ru) Колонизация космоса		485 606
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙移民		443 261
4	French (fr) Colonisation de l'espace		429 578
5	Spanish (es) Colonización del espacio		387 643
6	German (de) Weltraumkolonisierung		239 080
7	Italian (it) Colonizzazione dello spazio		216 141
8	Polish (pl) Kolonizacja kosmosu		149 560
9	Chinese (zh) 太空移民		147 641
10	Arabic (ar) استعمار الفضاء		145 020

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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 "Space colonization" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space colonization		13 647
2	Russian (ru) Колонизация космоса		1 161
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙移民		978
4	Simple English (simple) Space colonization		965
5	Chinese (zh) 太空移民		579
6	Polish (pl) Kolonizacja kosmosu		445
7	Spanish (es) Colonización del espacio		411
8	Italian (it) Colonizzazione dello spazio		404
9	German (de) Weltraumkolonisierung		334
10	French (fr) Colonisation de l'espace		296

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space colonization		1 018
2	French (fr) Colonisation de l'espace		221
3	German (de) Weltraumkolonisierung		114
4	Russian (ru) Колонизация космоса		71
5	Italian (it) Colonizzazione dello spazio		68
6	Spanish (es) Colonización del espacio		64
7	Hebrew (he) מושבת חלל		61
8	Japanese (ja) 宇宙移民		51
9	Dutch (nl) Ruimtekolonisatie		48
10	Swedish (sv) Rymdkolonisering		42

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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 "Space colonization" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space colonization		9
2	Spanish (es) Colonización del espacio		1
3	Italian (it) Colonizzazione dello spazio		1
4	Turkish (tr) Uzay kolonizasyonu		1
5	Arabic (ar) استعمار الفضاء		0
6	Belarusian (be) Каланізацыя космасу		0
7	Catalan (ca) Colonització de l'espai		0
8	Danish (da) Rumkolonisering		0
9	German (de) Weltraumkolonisierung		0
10	Estonian (et) Kosmose koloniseerimine		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 "Space colonization" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Space colonization		1 549
2	Chinese (zh) 太空移民		327
3	Arabic (ar) استعمار الفضاء		317
4	French (fr) Colonisation de l'espace		256
5	Japanese (ja) 宇宙移民		223
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thuộc địa hoá không gian		218
7	Portuguese (pt) Colonização espacial		194
8	Italian (it) Colonizzazione dello spazio		174
9	Catalan (ca) Colonització de l'espai		149
10	Russian (ru) Колонизация космоса		147

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استعمار الفضاء
be	Belarusian Каланізацыя космасу
ca	Catalan Colonització de l'espai
da	Danish Rumkolonisering
de	German Weltraumkolonisierung
en	English Space colonization
es	Spanish Colonización del espacio
et	Estonian Kosmose koloniseerimine
fa	Persian مستعمره‌سازی فضا
fi	Finnish Avaruuden asuttaminen
fr	French Colonisation de l'espace
he	Hebrew מושבת חלל
hr	Croatian Kolonizacija svemira
hu	Hungarian Űrkolonizáció
hy	Armenian Տիեզերքի գաղութացում
id	Indonesian Kolonisasi ruang angkasa
it	Italian Colonizzazione dello spazio
ja	Japanese 宇宙移民
ko	Korean 우주 이민
lt	Lithuanian Kosmoso kolonizacija
ms	Malay Penjajahan angkasa lepas
nl	Dutch Ruimtekolonisatie
pl	Polish Kolonizacja kosmosu
pt	Portuguese Colonização espacial
ro	Romanian Colonizarea spațiului
ru	Russian Колонизация космоса
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kolonizacija svemira
simple	Simple English Space colonization
sr	Serbian Колонизација свемира
sv	Swedish Rymdkolonisering
ta	Tamil விண்வெளிக் குடியிருப்பு
th	Thai การตั้งนิคมในอวกาศ
tr	Turkish Uzay kolonizasyonu
uk	Ukrainian Колонізація космосу
vi	Vietnamese Thuộc địa hoá không gian
zh	Chinese 太空移民

Best Rank

English: #12869 06.2023

Global: #20833 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #1401 12.2003

Global: #4306 12.2001

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