Nictation

Blinking - rapid closing and opening of the eyelid. Article “Nictation” in French Wikipedia has 16.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Nictation”, its content was written by 41 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 547 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in French Wikipedia and cited 355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #5804 in January 2022
• Global: #34423 in January 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #56785 in September 2009
• Global: #75804 in September 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	English (en) Blinking		52.5037
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Blunking		30.4073
3	German (de) Lidschlag		29.0511
4	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		29.0271
5	Japanese (ja) まばたき		26.5724
6	Arabic (ar) طرف (حركة العين)		25.3057
7	Russian (ru) Мигание		23.8891
8	Serbian (sr) Трептање		23.3719
9	Chinese (zh) 眨眼		22.6473
10	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		21.7322

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blinking		1 574 293
2	Japanese (ja) まばたき		265 869
3	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		257 523
4	German (de) Lidschlag		211 528
5	Persian (fa) پلک زدن		155 982
6	French (fr) Nictation		146 956
7	Dutch (nl) Knipperen		102 843
8	Chinese (zh) 眨眼		79 598
9	Italian (it) Ammiccamento		52 357
10	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		44 876

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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 "Nictation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blinking		4 237
2	Japanese (ja) まばたき		356
3	German (de) Lidschlag		272
4	Russian (ru) Мигание		238
5	French (fr) Nictation		224
6	Chinese (zh) 眨眼		214
7	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		173
8	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		111
9	Korean (ko) 깜박임		94
10	Italian (it) Ammiccamento		79

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blinking		243
2	German (de) Lidschlag		74
3	Dutch (nl) Knipperen		45
4	French (fr) Nictation		41
5	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		24
6	Japanese (ja) まばたき		23
7	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		19
8	Persian (fa) پلک زدن		18
9	Italian (it) Ammiccamento		18
10	Arabic (ar) طرف (حركة العين)		11

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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 "Nictation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) Palpebrumo		1
2	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		1
3	Arabic (ar) طرف (حركة العين)		0
4	German (de) Lidschlag		0
5	English (en) Blinking		0
6	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		0
7	Persian (fa) پلک زدن		0
8	French (fr) Nictation		0
9	Indonesian (id) Berkedip		0
10	Italian (it) Ammiccamento		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 "Nictation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Blinking		63
2	French (fr) Nictation		39
3	Japanese (ja) まばたき		39
4	Chinese (zh) 眨眼		39
5	German (de) Lidschlag		32
6	Hebrew (he) מצמוץ		32
7	Dutch (nl) Knipperen		23
8	Arabic (ar) طرف (حركة العين)		17
9	Spanish (es) Parpadeo (ocular)		16
10	Persian (fa) پلک زدن		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طرف (حركة العين)
de	German Lidschlag
en	English Blinking
eo	Esperanto Palpebrumo
es	Spanish Parpadeo (ocular)
fa	Persian پلک زدن
fr	French Nictation
he	Hebrew מצמוץ
id	Indonesian Berkedip
it	Italian Ammiccamento
ja	Japanese まばたき
ko	Korean 깜박임
nl	Dutch Knipperen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Blunking
ru	Russian Мигание
simple	Simple English Blinking
sr	Serbian Трептање
zh	Chinese 眨眼

Best Rank

French: #56785 09.2009

Global: #75804 09.2014

Best Rank

French: #5804 01.2022

Global: #34423 01.2022

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