Wind wave

Wind wave - surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water. Article “Wind wave” in English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 45 references and 14 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.

In June 2025 the article “Wind wave” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wind wave”, its content was written by 457 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2044 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2445 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5637 in December 2004
• Global: #1476 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21495 in February 2008
• Global: #11501 in April 2008

There are 46 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	English (en) Wind wave		74.6966
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Havbølgje		57.5904
3	French (fr) Vague		51.167
4	German (de) Wasserwelle		46.7686
5	Hebrew (he) גל (מים)		44.9396
6	Japanese (ja) 波		43.2228
7	Malay (ms) Ombak		38.6485
8	Croatian (hr) Vodeni val		36.582
9	Catalan (ca) Ona marina		34.7504
10	Norwegian (no) Havbølge		34.4934

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wind wave" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ola		3 922 271
2	English (en) Wind wave		3 906 285
3	Japanese (ja) 波		1 062 653
4	French (fr) Vague		822 664
5	German (de) Wasserwelle		805 169
6	Italian (it) Onda marina		451 464
7	Polish (pl) Falowanie		410 913
8	Portuguese (pt) Onda oceânica de superfície		273 869
9	Indonesian (id) Ombak		221 278
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sóng biển		183 939

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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 "Wind wave" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wind wave		8 306
2	Spanish (es) Ola		2 580
3	Japanese (ja) 波		1 656
4	German (de) Wasserwelle		1 548
5	French (fr) Vague		1 325
6	Italian (it) Onda marina		691
7	Korean (ko) 파도		589
8	Chinese (zh) 波濤		579
9	Simple English (simple) Ocean surface wave		526
10	Indonesian (id) Ombak		363

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wind wave		457
2	Spanish (es) Ola		362
3	German (de) Wasserwelle		158
4	French (fr) Vague		141
5	Italian (it) Onda marina		96
6	Hebrew (he) גל (מים)		78
7	Japanese (ja) 波		72
8	Dutch (nl) Oppervlaktegolf (vloeistofdynamica)		64
9	Norwegian (no) Havbølge		55
10	Finnish (fi) Aalto		48

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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 "Wind wave" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wind wave		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Marondo		1
3	Hebrew (he) גל (מים)		1
4	Swedish (sv) Vattenvåg		1
5	Arabic (ar) موجة رياح		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dalğa (su)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Вълнение		0
8	Catalan (ca) Ona marina		0
9	Czech (cs) Mořská vlna		0
10	Danish (da) Havbølge		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 "Wind wave" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wind wave		2 445
2	Japanese (ja) 波		511
3	French (fr) Vague		478
4	Spanish (es) Ola		280
5	Persian (fa) موج دریا		273
6	Chinese (zh) 波濤		271
7	German (de) Wasserwelle		257
8	Hebrew (he) גל (מים)		250
9	Italian (it) Onda marina		241
10	Arabic (ar) موجة رياح		205

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic موجة رياح
az	Azerbaijani Dalğa (su)
bg	Bulgarian Вълнение
ca	Catalan Ona marina
cs	Czech Mořská vlna
da	Danish Havbølge
de	German Wasserwelle
el	Greek Κυματισμός
en	English Wind wave
eo	Esperanto Marondo
es	Spanish Ola
et	Estonian Veelained
eu	Basque Olatu
fa	Persian موج دریا
fi	Finnish Aalto
fr	French Vague
gl	Galician Onda (mar)
he	Hebrew גל (מים)
hi	Hindi महासागरीय तरंगे
hr	Croatian Vodeni val
id	Indonesian Ombak
it	Italian Onda marina
ja	Japanese 波
ka	Georgian ტალღები
ko	Korean 파도
lt	Lithuanian Jūros banga
ms	Malay Ombak
nl	Dutch Oppervlaktegolf (vloeistofdynamica)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Havbølgje
no	Norwegian Havbølge
pl	Polish Falowanie
pt	Portuguese Onda oceânica de superfície
ro	Romanian Val
ru	Russian Ветровые волны
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vodeni val
simple	Simple English Ocean surface wave
sk	Slovak Vodná vlna
sr	Serbian Водени талас
sv	Swedish Vattenvåg
ta	Tamil கடலலை
tr	Turkish Dalga (su)
uk	Ukrainian Вітрові хвилі
uz	Uzbek Mavj
vi	Vietnamese Sóng biển
zh	Chinese 波濤
zhminnan	Min Nan Éng

Best Rank

English: #21495 02.2008

Global: #11501 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #5637 12.2004

Global: #1476 02.2012

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