Balast

Ballast - material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Article “Balast” in Malay Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balast”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 426 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 2607 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #3849 in February 2020
• Global: #15185 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #14063 in December 2025
• Global: #60602 in November 2009

There are 25 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, 2026 (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	Catalan (ca) Llast		44.4254
2	Malay (ms) Balast		29.4837
3	Estonian (et) Ballast		24.9645
4	Arabic (ar) صابورة		23.6488
5	Danish (da) Ballast		21.8491
6	English (en) Ballast		21.3404
7	Kazakh (kk) Балласт		20.2682
8	French (fr) Lest		18.5237
9	Chinese (zh) 压载物		18.1363
10	Spanish (es) Lastre		18.0938

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast		1 814 419
2	Japanese (ja) バラスト		394 351
3	Spanish (es) Lastre		364 342
4	Russian (ru) Балласт		349 093
5	German (de) Ballast		177 102
6	French (fr) Lest		145 499
7	Polish (pl) Balast		141 968
8	Portuguese (pt) Lastro (transporte)		93 166
9	Swedish (sv) Barlast		68 711
10	Norwegian (no) Ballast		32 682

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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 "Balast" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast		3 630
2	Japanese (ja) バラスト		869
3	German (de) Ballast		400
4	Russian (ru) Балласт		316
5	Spanish (es) Lastre		307
6	French (fr) Lest		211
7	Swedish (sv) Barlast		174
8	Polish (pl) Balast		127
9	Dutch (nl) Ballast (verzwaring)		87
10	Chinese (zh) 压载物		73

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Ballast		82
2	Russian (ru) Балласт		43
3	French (fr) Lest		40
4	English (en) Ballast		33
5	Dutch (nl) Ballast (verzwaring)		32
6	Danish (da) Ballast		27
7	Japanese (ja) バラスト		23
8	Polish (pl) Balast		23
9	Spanish (es) Lastre		20
10	Swedish (sv) Barlast		19

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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 "Balast" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Балласт		2
2	German (de) Ballast		1
3	Arabic (ar) صابورة		0
4	Catalan (ca) Llast		0
5	Danish (da) Ballast		0
6	English (en) Ballast		0
7	Spanish (es) Lastre		0
8	Estonian (et) Ballast		0
9	Basque (eu) Lasta		0
10	French (fr) Lest		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 "Balast" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ballast		479
2	German (de) Ballast		415
3	French (fr) Lest		294
4	Swedish (sv) Barlast		216
5	Japanese (ja) バラスト		179
6	Basque (eu) Lasta		168
7	Polish (pl) Balast		156
8	Norwegian (no) Ballast		123
9	Dutch (nl) Ballast (verzwaring)		89
10	Russian (ru) Балласт		86

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صابورة
ca	Catalan Llast
da	Danish Ballast
de	German Ballast
en	English Ballast
es	Spanish Lastre
et	Estonian Ballast
eu	Basque Lasta
fr	French Lest
hy	Armenian Բալաստ
ja	Japanese バラスト
kk	Kazakh Балласт
ms	Malay Balast
nl	Dutch Ballast (verzwaring)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Ballast
no	Norwegian Ballast
pl	Polish Balast
pt	Portuguese Lastro (transporte)
ru	Russian Балласт
simple	Simple English Ballast
sl	Slovenian Balast
sr	Serbian Баласт
sv	Swedish Barlast
uk	Ukrainian Баласт
zh	Chinese 压载物

Best Rank

Malay: #14063 12.2025

Global: #60602 11.2009

Best Rank

Malay: #3849 02.2020

Global: #15185 02.2003

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