Aurora

Quality:

Aurora - natural light display that occurs in the sky, primarily at high latitudes (near the Arctic and Antarctic on Earth) or even on other planets. Article “Aurora” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3176^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2327^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1204^th most popular in all topics.

The 1821^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3277^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9388^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Aurora”, its content was written by 55 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2327^th place) and edited by 5254 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1821^st place).

The article is cited 66 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9310 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #51 in August 2021
• Global: #213 in May 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #382 in January 2016
• Global: #99 in May 2024

There are 54 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	Japanese (ja) オーロラ		100
2	English (en) Aurora		89.6544
3	Finnish (fi) Revontulet		82.5333
4	Hungarian (hu) Sarki fény		78.663
5	Chinese (zh) 极光		69.5493
6	German (de) Polarlicht		65.4055
7	Portuguese (pt) Aurora polar		52.9573
8	French (fr) Aurore polaire		48.3157
9	Romanian (ro) Auroră polară		47.7063
10	Turkish (tr) Kutup ışıkları		46.4787

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aurora		36 734 345
2	Spanish (es) Aurora polar		7 043 223
3	German (de) Polarlicht		5 623 732
4	French (fr) Aurore polaire		4 222 143
5	Japanese (ja) オーロラ		3 791 803
6	Russian (ru) Полярное сияние		3 559 489
7	Italian (it) Aurora polare		3 384 837
8	Portuguese (pt) Aurora polar		2 949 410
9	Polish (pl) Zorza polarna		2 233 847
10	Chinese (zh) 极光		1 800 536

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) Aurora		50 158
2	Japanese (ja) オーロラ		6 672
3	German (de) Polarlicht		6 119
4	Russian (ru) Полярное сияние		5 823
5	French (fr) Aurore polaire		4 543
6	Spanish (es) Aurora polar		4 336
7	Portuguese (pt) Aurora polar		2 925
8	Polish (pl) Zorza polarna		2 646
9	Chinese (zh) 极光		2 278
10	Italian (it) Aurora polare		1 923

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aurora		1 493
2	German (de) Polarlicht		410
3	French (fr) Aurore polaire		290
4	Italian (it) Aurora polare		225
5	Spanish (es) Aurora polar		223
6	Dutch (nl) Poollicht		194
7	Russian (ru) Полярное сияние		171
8	Japanese (ja) オーロラ		158
9	Hebrew (he) זוהר הקוטב		129
10	Portuguese (pt) Aurora polar		120

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) Aurora		2
2	Hungarian (hu) Sarki fény		2
3	Slovenian (sl) Polarni sij		2
4	Arabic (ar) شفق قطبي		1
5	French (fr) Aurore polaire		1
6	Hebrew (he) זוהר הקוטב		1
7	Indonesian (id) Aurora		1
8	Latin (la) Aurora (astronomia)		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qütb parıltısı		0
10	Belarusian (be) Палярнае ззянне		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information