Weather modification

Quality:

Weather modification - act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather. Article "Weather modification" in English Wikipedia has 70.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 56 references and 19 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Weather modification" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Weather modification", its content was written by 439 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 256 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1032 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2117 in October 2024
• Global: #6979 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1690 in October 2024
• Global: #4489 in October 2024

There are 21 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	Indonesian (id) Modifikasi cuaca		71.3366
2	English (en) Weather modification		70.8701
3	Czech (cs) Ovlivňování počasí		62.3525
4	German (de) Wetterbeeinflussung		52.6499
5	French (fr) Modification du temps		49.5362
6	Spanish (es) Manipulación del clima		48.8077
7	Danish (da) Vejrmanipulation		34.7963
8	Hebrew (he) שינוי מזג אוויר		31.8713
9	Croatian (hr) Modifikacija vremenskih prilika		29.0773
10	Swedish (sv) Vädermodifikation		26.0735

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Weather modification		3 504 953
2	Spanish (es) Manipulación del clima		503 376
3	German (de) Wetterbeeinflussung		432 685
4	Japanese (ja) 気象制御		121 938
5	Russian (ru) Активное воздействие на гидрометеорологические процессы		111 373
6	French (fr) Modification du temps		101 369
7	Italian (it) Modificazione del meteo		62 545
8	Dutch (nl) Weerbeïnvloeding		43 231
9	Indonesian (id) Modifikasi cuaca		14 263
10	Swedish (sv) Vädermodifikation		13 983

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) Weather modification		11 935
2	German (de) Wetterbeeinflussung		1 389
3	Spanish (es) Manipulación del clima		736
4	Russian (ru) Активное воздействие на гидрометеорологические процессы		434
5	Japanese (ja) 気象制御		408
6	Italian (it) Modificazione del meteo		327
7	French (fr) Modification du temps		317
8	Indonesian (id) Modifikasi cuaca		309
9	Czech (cs) Ovlivňování počasí		242
10	Polish (pl) Modyfikacja pogody		178

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Weather modification		439
2	German (de) Wetterbeeinflussung		111
3	French (fr) Modification du temps		63
4	Spanish (es) Manipulación del clima		47
5	Dutch (nl) Weerbeïnvloeding		27
6	Japanese (ja) 気象制御		26
7	Russian (ru) Активное воздействие на гидрометеорологические процессы		26
8	Italian (it) Modificazione del meteo		22
9	Hebrew (he) שינוי מזג אוויר		14
10	Lithuanian (lt) Orų valdymas		13

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) Weather modification		3
2	Russian (ru) Активное воздействие на гидрометеорологические процессы		1
3	Arabic (ar) تعديل الطقس		0
4	Czech (cs) Ovlivňování počasí		0
5	Danish (da) Vejrmanipulation		0
6	German (de) Wetterbeeinflussung		0
7	Spanish (es) Manipulación del clima		0
8	Persian (fa) دستکاری هواشناختی		0
9	French (fr) Modification du temps		0
10	Hebrew (he) שינוי מזג אוויר		0

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

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