Парадокс шеста и сарая

Ladder paradox - thought experiment in special relativity: a ladder parallel to the ground moves horizontally; due to length contraction it fits inside a garage; but from the ladder's frame, the garage will be contracted to be smaller and cannot contain the ladder. On Russian Wikipedia article about Ladder paradox recently has been very popular. Article “Парадокс шеста и сарая” in Russian Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Парадокс шеста и сарая”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 526 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #4134 in August 2015
• Global: #39204 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #7148 in December 2023
• Global: #112107 in September 2020

There are 17 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) Ladder paradox		46.8586
2	Spanish (es) Paradoja de la escalera		46.1548
3	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		44.9484
4	Finnish (fi) Tikapuuparadoksi		44.0259
5	Russian (ru) Парадокс шеста и сарая		35.0337
6	Hungarian (hu) Létraparadoxon		23.6749
7	Croatian (hr) Paradoks ljestava		22.255
8	Hebrew (he) פרדוקס הסולם והאסם		19.5827
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Paradoks ljestava		18.8426
10	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		18.4655

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Парадокс шеста и сарая" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ladder paradox		847 994
2	Russian (ru) Парадокс шеста и сарая		174 959
3	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		146 505
4	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		136 010
5	Polish (pl) Paradoks drabiny		28 684
6	Hungarian (hu) Létraparadoxon		12 515
7	Persian (fa) پارادوکس نردبان		11 031
8	Lithuanian (lt) Kopėčių paradoksas		10 113
9	Croatian (hr) Paradoks ljestava		9 508
10	Hebrew (he) פרדוקס הסולם והאסם		7 763

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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 "Парадокс шеста и сарая" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ladder paradox		3 071
2	Russian (ru) Парадокс шеста и сарая		1 683
3	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		475
4	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		469
5	Italian (it) Paradosso della scala nel garage		188
6	Spanish (es) Paradoja de la escalera		151
7	Chinese (zh) 梯子悖論		88
8	Polish (pl) Paradoks drabiny		84
9	Persian (fa) پارادوکس نردبان		41
10	Hebrew (he) פרדוקס הסולם והאסם		38

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ladder paradox		79
2	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		53
3	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		47
4	Croatian (hr) Paradoks ljestava		19
5	Hebrew (he) פרדוקס הסולם והאסם		15
6	Russian (ru) Парадокс шеста и сарая		14
7	Hungarian (hu) Létraparadoxon		11
8	Italian (it) Paradosso della scala nel garage		6
9	Spanish (es) Paradoja de la escalera		5
10	Finnish (fi) Tikapuuparadoksi		5

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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 "Парадокс шеста и сарая" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مفارقة السلم		0
2	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		0
3	English (en) Ladder paradox		0
4	Spanish (es) Paradoja de la escalera		0
5	Persian (fa) پارادوکس نردبان		0
6	Finnish (fi) Tikapuuparadoksi		0
7	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		0
8	Hebrew (he) פרדוקס הסולם והאסם		0
9	Croatian (hr) Paradoks ljestava		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Létraparadoxon		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 "Парадокс шеста и сарая" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ladder paradox		141
2	French (fr) Paradoxe du train		116
3	Ukrainian (uk) Парадокс драбини		79
4	Polish (pl) Paradoks drabiny		77
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Paradoks ljestava		34
6	Chinese (zh) 梯子悖論		26
7	German (de) Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion		14
8	Russian (ru) Парадокс шеста и сарая		10
9	Persian (fa) پارادوکس نردبان		6
10	Hungarian (hu) Létraparadoxon		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مفارقة السلم
de	German Paradoxon der Längenkontraktion
en	English Ladder paradox
es	Spanish Paradoja de la escalera
fa	Persian پارادوکس نردبان
fi	Finnish Tikapuuparadoksi
fr	French Paradoxe du train
he	Hebrew פרדוקס הסולם והאסם
hr	Croatian Paradoks ljestava
hu	Hungarian Létraparadoxon
it	Italian Paradosso della scala nel garage
lt	Lithuanian Kopėčių paradoksas
pl	Polish Paradoks drabiny
ru	Russian Парадокс шеста и сарая
sh	Serbo-Croatian Paradoks ljestava
uk	Ukrainian Парадокс драбини
zh	Chinese 梯子悖論

Best Rank

Russian: #7148 12.2023

Global: #112107 09.2020

Best Rank

Russian: #4134 08.2015

Global: #39204 08.2005

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