Ball lightning

Quality:

Ball lightning - extremely rare unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. Article “Ball lightning” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9464^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4185^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6900^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ball lightning” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4185^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ball lightning”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2638 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9464^th place).

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1368 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1130 in March 2010
• Global: #360 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7020 in June 2011
• Global: #1405 in January 2020

There are 43 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	Croatian (hr) Kugličasta munja		91.1111
2	Turkish (tr) Yıldırım topu		84.0153
3	English (en) Ball lightning		83.9105
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kugličasta munja		61.1882
5	German (de) Kugelblitz		52.0956
6	Dutch (nl) Bolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel)		44.8354
7	Malay (ms) Kilat bebola		43.7413
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кульова блискавка		38.864
9	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		36.5076
10	Portuguese (pt) Raio globular		36.2504

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ball lightning		9 253 224
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		5 355 028
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		2 079 996
4	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		1 227 447
5	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		928 989
6	French (fr) Foudre en boule		608 117
7	Finnish (fi) Pallosalama		587 261
8	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		584 012
9	Japanese (ja) 球電		464 955
10	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		448 277

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		39 571
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		36 001
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		11 092
4	Dutch (nl) Bolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel)		7 138
5	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		5 970
6	French (fr) Foudre en boule		5 395
7	Spanish (es) Rayo globular		4 053
8	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		2 593
9	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		2 085
10	Chinese (zh) 球状闪电		1 858

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		771
2	Russian (ru) Шаровая молния		308
3	German (de) Kugelblitz		277
4	French (fr) Foudre en boule		143
5	Dutch (nl) Bolbliksem (natuurverschijnsel)		113
6	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		104
7	Hungarian (hu) Gömbvillám		78
8	Finnish (fi) Pallosalama		70
9	Polish (pl) Piorun kulisty		68
10	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		61

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) Ball lightning		2
2	French (fr) Foudre en boule		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Gömbvillám		2
4	Swedish (sv) Klotblixt		2
5	Czech (cs) Kulový blesk		1
6	Croatian (hr) Kugličasta munja		1
7	Italian (it) Fulmine globulare		1
8	Georgian (ka) ბურთისებრი ელვა		1
9	Simple English (simple) Ball lightning		1
10	Slovak (sk) Guľový blesk		1

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

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