Variable star

Quality:

Variable star - star whose brightness as seen from Earth fluctuates. Article "Variable star" in English Wikipedia has 66.5 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 30 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In October 2023 the article "Variable star" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Variable star", its content was written by 189 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1217 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2866 times in English Wikipedia (9450th place) and cited 42074 times in all languages (3672nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3454 in July 2002
  • Global: #3500 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #81502 in April 2010
  • Global: #65809 in March 2015

There are 48 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 November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Swedish (sv)
Variabel stjärna
95.6513
2Italian (it)
Stella variabile
89.5546
3Ukrainian (uk)
Змінні зорі
81.443
4Basque (eu)
Izar aldakor
72.8384
5Russian (ru)
Переменная звезда
70.5969
6Chinese (zh)
變星
68.8802
7English (en)
Variable star
66.473
8Turkish (tr)
Değişen yıldız
55.9088
9Dutch (nl)
Veranderlijke ster
48.3992
10Esperanto (eo)
Varianta stelo
46.9177
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Variable star" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Variable star
1 201 978
2Russian (ru)
Переменная звезда
402 768
3Spanish (es)
Estrella variable
231 821
4Japanese (ja)
変光星
221 760
5German (de)
Veränderlicher Stern
181 087
6Polish (pl)
Gwiazda zmienna
136 221
7Italian (it)
Stella variabile
135 115
8Chinese (zh)
變星
115 894
9French (fr)
Étoile variable
114 037
10Ukrainian (uk)
Змінні зорі
104 185
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in October 2023

The most popular language versions of the article "Variable star" in October 2023
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Variable star
4 953
2Russian (ru)
Переменная звезда
2 000
3Japanese (ja)
変光星
744
4German (de)
Veränderlicher Stern
580
5Chinese (zh)
變星
538
6Spanish (es)
Estrella variable
530
7Italian (it)
Stella variabile
528
8Korean (ko)
변광성
504
9French (fr)
Étoile variable
371
10Arabic (ar)
نجم متغير
299
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Variable star" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Variable star
189
2German (de)
Veränderlicher Stern
127
3Russian (ru)
Переменная звезда
80
4French (fr)
Étoile variable
79
5Italian (it)
Stella variabile
76
6Dutch (nl)
Veranderlijke ster
68
7Spanish (es)
Estrella variable
52
8Hungarian (hu)
Változócsillag
50
9Swedish (sv)
Variabel stjärna
39
10Polish (pl)
Gwiazda zmienna
28
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in October 2023

Language versions of the article "Variable star" with the highest AI in October 2023
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Variable star
4
2Hungarian (hu)
Változócsillag
2
3Polish (pl)
Gwiazda zmienna
1
4Romanian (ro)
Stea variabilă
1
5Simple English (simple)
Variable star
1
6Ukrainian (uk)
Змінні зорі
1
7Arabic (ar)
نجم متغير
0
8Azerbaijani (az)
Dəyişən ulduz
0
9Belarusian (be)
Пераменная зорка
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
Променлива звезда
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Variable star" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Swedish (sv)
Variabel stjärna
8 771
2Ukrainian (uk)
Змінні зорі
8 738
3Russian (ru)
Переменная звезда
7 294
4English (en)
Variable star
2 866
5French (fr)
Étoile variable
1 575
6Chinese (zh)
變星
1 248
7Spanish (es)
Estrella variable
1 037
8Italian (it)
Stella variabile
1 016
9Catalan (ca)
Estrella variable
871
10Portuguese (pt)
Estrela variável
779
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in October 2023:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in October 2023:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نجم متغير
azAzerbaijani
Dəyişən ulduz
beBelarusian
Пераменная зорка
bgBulgarian
Променлива звезда
caCatalan
Estrella variable
csCzech
Proměnná hvězda
deGerman
Veränderlicher Stern
elGreek
Μεταβλητός αστέρας
enEnglish
Variable star
eoEsperanto
Varianta stelo
esSpanish
Estrella variable
etEstonian
Muutlik täht
euBasque
Izar aldakor
faPersian
ستاره متغیر
fiFinnish
Muuttuva tähti
frFrench
Étoile variable
heHebrew
כוכב משתנה
hiHindi
परिवर्ती तारा
hrCroatian
Promjenljiva zvijezda
huHungarian
Változócsillag
hyArmenian
Փոփոխական աստղեր
idIndonesian
Bintang variabel
itItalian
Stella variabile
jaJapanese
変光星
kkKazakh
Айнымалы жұлдыз
koKorean
변광성
ltLithuanian
Kintamoji žvaigždė
msMalay
Bintang berubah
nlDutch
Veranderlijke ster
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Variabel stjerne
noNorwegian
Variabel stjerne
plPolish
Gwiazda zmienna
ptPortuguese
Estrela variável
roRomanian
Stea variabilă
ruRussian
Переменная звезда
shSerbo-Croatian
Promenljiva zvezda
simpleSimple English
Variable star
skSlovak
Premenná hviezda
slSlovenian
Spremenljivka (zvezda)
srSerbian
Променљива звезда
svSwedish
Variabel stjärna
taTamil
மாறுபடும் விண்மீன்
thThai
ดาวแปรแสง
trTurkish
Değişen yıldız
ukUkrainian
Змінні зорі
uzUzbek
Oʻzgaruvchan yulduzlar
viVietnamese
Sao biến quang
zhChinese
變星

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#81502
04.2010
Global:
#65809
03.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3454
07.2002
Global:
#3500
02.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Variable star from Wikipedia articles about UY Scuti, Cepheid variable, Star, Betelgeuse and Mira. Whereas reading the article about Variable star people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pulsating variable star, Cepheid variable, List of variable stars, Algol and Mira.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 變星

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