Wave model

Wave model - model of language change in which a new language feature (innovation) or a new combination of language features spreads from its region of origin, affecting a gradually expanding cluster of dialects. Article "Wave model" in English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 6 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Wave model", its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 55 times in English Wikipedia and cited 188 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5069 in December 2001
• Global: #5184 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #254512 in November 2014
• Global: #371371 in November 2014

There are 18 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	Latin (la) Theoria undarum		34.3925
2	Chinese (zh) 波浪模型		27.3487
3	Estonian (et) Laineteooria (lingvistika)		25.2317
4	English (en) Wave model		25.1009
5	Armenian (hy) Ալիքների տեսություն (լեզվաբանություն)		25.0142
6	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		23.7903
7	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		19.4369
8	Arabic (ar) نموذج الموجة (لغويات)		18.5233
9	Hebrew (he) תורת הגלים (בלשנות)		18.2311
10	Indonesian (id) Teori gelombang		15.6751

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wave model" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wave model		383 526
2	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		56 803
3	Italian (it) Teoria delle onde		45 258
4	Polish (pl) Teoria falowa		18 826
5	Japanese (ja) 波紋説		17 087
6	Dutch (nl) Golftheorie (taalkunde)		8 636
7	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		8 403
8	Hebrew (he) תורת הגלים (בלשנות)		6 111
9	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія хвиль		4 027
10	Galician (gl) Teoría das ondas		3 877

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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 "Wave model" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wave model		2 105
2	Italian (it) Teoria delle onde		192
3	Japanese (ja) 波紋説		105
4	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		89
5	Chinese (zh) 波浪模型		44
6	Polish (pl) Teoria falowa		39
7	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		35
8	Hebrew (he) תורת הגלים (בלשנות)		33
9	Dutch (nl) Golftheorie (taalkunde)		18
10	Indonesian (id) Teori gelombang		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wave model		69
2	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		32
3	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		23
4	Hebrew (he) תורת הגלים (בלשנות)		13
5	Dutch (nl) Golftheorie (taalkunde)		13
6	Italian (it) Teoria delle onde		11
7	Polish (pl) Teoria falowa		9
8	Galician (gl) Teoría das ondas		5
9	Japanese (ja) 波紋説		5
10	Latin (la) Theoria undarum		5

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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 "Wave model" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نموذج الموجة (لغويات)		0
2	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		0
3	English (en) Wave model		0
4	Estonian (et) Laineteooria (lingvistika)		0
5	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		0
6	Galician (gl) Teoría das ondas		0
7	Hebrew (he) תורת הגלים (בלשנות)		0
8	Armenian (hy) Ալիքների տեսություն (լեզվաբանություն)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Teori gelombang		0
10	Italian (it) Teoria delle onde		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 "Wave model" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wave model		55
2	Japanese (ja) 波紋説		27
3	German (de) Wellentheorie (Linguistik)		15
4	Chinese (zh) 波浪模型		14
5	Italian (it) Teoria delle onde		13
6	Latin (la) Theoria undarum		12
7	French (fr) Théorie des vagues		10
8	Dutch (nl) Golftheorie (taalkunde)		8
9	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія хвиль		8
10	Polish (pl) Teoria falowa		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نموذج الموجة (لغويات)
de	German Wellentheorie (Linguistik)
en	English Wave model
et	Estonian Laineteooria (lingvistika)
fr	French Théorie des vagues
gl	Galician Teoría das ondas
he	Hebrew תורת הגלים (בלשנות)
hy	Armenian Ալիքների տեսություն (լեզվաբանություն)
id	Indonesian Teori gelombang
it	Italian Teoria delle onde
ja	Japanese 波紋説
la	Latin Theoria undarum
nl	Dutch Golftheorie (taalkunde)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Bølgjeteori
pl	Polish Teoria falowa
uk	Ukrainian Теорія хвиль
ur	Urdu موجی مثیل
zh	Chinese 波浪模型

Best Rank

English: #254512 11.2014

Global: #371371 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #5069 12.2001

Global: #5184 12.2001

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