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Ballast

Quality:

Ballast - material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Article “Ballast” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Ballast”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 427 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #6301 in December 2017
  • Global: #15188 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #25820 in April 2022
  • Global: #60350 in November 2009

There are 24 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Catalan (ca)
Llast
44.2999
2Malay (ms)
Balast
29.7724
3Estonian (et)
Ballast
25.0779
4Danish (da)
Ballast
21.8492
5Kazakh (kk)
Балласт
21.3352
6English (en)
Ballast
19.3568
7Spanish (es)
Lastre
18.6433
8French (fr)
Lest
18.5466
9German (de)
Ballast
18.0809
10Arabic (ar)
مياه الاتزان في السفن
15.3864
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Ballast" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ballast
1 762 265
2Japanese (ja)
バラスト
383 282
3Spanish (es)
Lastre
360 555
4Russian (ru)
Балласт
308 265
5German (de)
Ballast
169 890
6French (fr)
Lest
142 232
7Polish (pl)
Balast
139 058
8Portuguese (pt)
Lastro (transporte)
92 169
9Swedish (sv)
Barlast
66 229
10Norwegian (no)
Ballast
30 445
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Ballast" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ballast
5 692
2Japanese (ja)
バラスト
926
3Russian (ru)
Балласт
818
4German (de)
Ballast
407
5Spanish (es)
Lastre
328
6French (fr)
Lest
294
7Swedish (sv)
Barlast
187
8Polish (pl)
Balast
176
9Portuguese (pt)
Lastro (transporte)
150
10Simple English (simple)
Ballast
114
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Ballast" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Ballast
80
2Russian (ru)
Балласт
42
3French (fr)
Lest
40
4Norwegian (no)
Ballast
33
5Dutch (nl)
Ballast (verzwaring)
32
6Danish (da)
Ballast
27
7English (en)
Ballast
27
8Japanese (ja)
バラスト
23
9Polish (pl)
Balast
23
10Spanish (es)
Lastre
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Ballast" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
مياه الاتزان في السفن
0
2Catalan (ca)
Llast
0
3Danish (da)
Ballast
0
4German (de)
Ballast
0
5English (en)
Ballast
0
6Spanish (es)
Lastre
0
7Estonian (et)
Ballast
0
8Basque (eu)
Lasta
0
9French (fr)
Lest
0
10Armenian (hy)
Բալաստ
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Ballast" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ballast
448
2German (de)
Ballast
405
3French (fr)
Lest
285
4Swedish (sv)
Barlast
214
5Japanese (ja)
バラスト
173
6Basque (eu)
Lasta
160
7Polish (pl)
Balast
140
8Norwegian (no)
Ballast
122
9Dutch (nl)
Ballast (verzwaring)
87
10Russian (ru)
Балласт
82
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مياه الاتزان في السفن
caCatalan
Llast
daDanish
Ballast
deGerman
Ballast
enEnglish
Ballast
esSpanish
Lastre
etEstonian
Ballast
euBasque
Lasta
frFrench
Lest
hyArmenian
Բալաստ
jaJapanese
バラスト
kkKazakh
Балласт
msMalay
Balast
nlDutch
Ballast (verzwaring)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Ballast
noNorwegian
Ballast
plPolish
Balast
ptPortuguese
Lastro (transporte)
ruRussian
Балласт
simpleSimple English
Ballast
slSlovenian
Balast
srSerbian
Баласт
svSwedish
Barlast
ukUkrainian
Баласт

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#25820
04.2022
Global:
#60350
11.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6301
12.2017
Global:
#15188
02.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ballast from Wikipedia articles about Titan submersible implosion, Gastrolith, Ballast tank, Charles Stephens and Molotov cocktail. Whereas reading the article about Ballast people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ballast, Sailing ballast, Ballast tank, Track ballast and Airship.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

es: Lastre
fr: Lest
pl: Balast
sl: Balast
ca: Llast
simple: Ballast
ms: Balast
eu: Lasta

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