Шаровая молния

Quality:

Ball lightning - extremely rare unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. On Russian Wikipedia article about Ball lightning recently has been very popular. Article “Шаровая молния” in Russian Wikipedia has 49.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.51 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 2530^th most popular in Russian Wikipedia.

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The 1405^th most editable in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9684^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 643^rd most popular in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 126^th most editable in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6926^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Шаровая молния” was edited by 14 authors in Russian Wikipedia (126^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Шаровая молния”, its content was written by 299 registered users of Russian Wikipedia (1405^th place) and edited by 2565 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9684^th place).

The article is cited 304 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 1384 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #4 in February 2005
• Global: #359 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #65 in July 2008
• Global: #1390 in January 2020

There are 41 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) Ball lightning		88.4402
2	Turkish (tr) Yıldırım topu		88.3979
3	Croatian (hr) Kugličasta munja		73.4005
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kugličasta munja		61.0009
5	German (de) Kugelblitz		53.2131
6	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		49.5561
7	Malay (ms) Kilat bebola		43.3046
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кульова блискавка		40.3264
9	Dutch (nl) Bolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel)		39.9278
10	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		37.2516

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ball lightning		8 717 648
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		4 775 554
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		2 003 983
4	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		1 183 465
5	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		894 602
6	French (fr) Foudre en boule		573 928
7	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		563 910
8	Finnish (fi) Pallosalama		555 705
9	Japanese (ja) 球電		431 832
10	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		431 515

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) Ball lightning		49 558
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		42 099
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		8 052
4	French (fr) Foudre en boule		6 344
5	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		5 971
6	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		5 765
7	Finnish (fi) Pallosalama		3 720
8	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		3 305
9	Hungarian (hu) Gömbvillám		2 412
10	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		2 264

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ball lightning		726
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		299
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		275
4	French (fr) Foudre en boule		134
5	Dutch (nl) Bolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel)		112
6	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		101
7	Hungarian (hu) Gömbvillám		75
8	Finnish (fi) Pallosalama		69
9	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		68
10	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		58

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	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		14
2	English (en) Ball lightning		2
3	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		2
4	French (fr) Foudre en boule		1
5	Turkish (tr) Yıldırım topu		1
6	Arabic (ar) برق كروي		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Кълбовидна мълния		0
8	Catalan (ca) Llamp globular		0
9	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		0
10	Danish (da) Kuglelyn		0

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

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