Patella volans

Quality:

Flying saucer - type of supposed alien spacecraft, or UFO. Article “Patella volans” in Latin Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Patella volans”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Latin Wikipedia (9674^th place) and edited by 551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Latin Wikipedia and cited 1707 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #81 in May 2009
• Global: #7215 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #6251 in December 2022
• Global: #52084 in June 2008

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	English (en) Flying saucer		100
2	Persian (fa) بشقاب پرنده		52.4448
3	German (de) Fliegende Untertasse		30.848
4	Latin (la) Patella volans		27.9991
5	Thai (th) จานบิน		27.7295
6	Japanese (ja) 空飛ぶ円盤		25.9396
7	Portuguese (pt) Disco voador		25.7741
8	Croatian (hr) Leteći tanjur		25.65
9	Estonian (et) Lendav taldrik		24.3509
10	Romanian (ro) Farfurie zburătoare		17.3176

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flying saucer		2 099 154
2	Arabic (ar) صحن طائر		302 464
3	Japanese (ja) 空飛ぶ円盤		243 813
4	Portuguese (pt) Disco voador		231 520
5	German (de) Fliegende Untertasse		125 594
6	Persian (fa) بشقاب پرنده		116 299
7	Russian (ru) Летающая тарелка		112 179
8	Thai (th) จานบิน		40 423
9	Czech (cs) Létající talíř (UFO)		27 654
10	Swedish (sv) Flygande tefat		26 755

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) Flying saucer		11 680
2	Russian (ru) Летающая тарелка		1 195
3	Japanese (ja) 空飛ぶ円盤		1 103
4	German (de) Fliegende Untertasse		670
5	Persian (fa) بشقاب پرنده		580
6	Portuguese (pt) Disco voador		511
7	Arabic (ar) صحن طائر		423
8	Thai (th) จานบิน		125
9	Czech (cs) Létající talíř (UFO)		84
10	Swedish (sv) Flygande tefat		58

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flying saucer		256
2	Portuguese (pt) Disco voador		47
3	Japanese (ja) 空飛ぶ円盤		44
4	German (de) Fliegende Untertasse		38
5	Latin (la) Patella volans		25
6	Russian (ru) Летающая тарелка		17
7	Esperanto (eo) Fluganta subtaso		15
8	Arabic (ar) صحن طائر		14
9	Swedish (sv) Flygande tefat		14
10	Persian (fa) بشقاب پرنده		12

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) Flying saucer		2
2	German (de) Fliegende Untertasse		1
3	Persian (fa) بشقاب پرنده		1
4	Korean (ko) 비행접시		1
5	Russian (ru) Летающая тарелка		1
6	Thai (th) จานบิน		1
7	Arabic (ar) صحن طائر		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Летяща чиния		0
9	Czech (cs) Létající talíř (UFO)		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Fluganta subtaso		0

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

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