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Bedford level experiment

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Bedford Level experiment - series of observations carried out along a six-mile length of the Old Bedford River in an attempt to determine the shape of the Earth. Article “Bedford level experiment” in Simple English Wikipedia has 53.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bedford level experiment”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 34 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2899 in December 2023
  • Global: #44262 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #9064 in June 2024
  • Global: #130670 in March 2019

There are 7 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
1Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
53.6229
2English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
52.0063
3Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
46.7937
4Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
39.7746
5Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
30.4098
6French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
28.9048
7Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
27.681
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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 "Bedford level experiment" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
945 003
2Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
24 239
3Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
22 075
4Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
9 432
5Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
4 613
6French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
4 370
7Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
3 461
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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 "Bedford level experiment" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
4 085
2Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
468
3Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
206
4French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
172
5Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
113
6Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
47
7Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
26
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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 "Bedford level experiment" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
111
2Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
7
3French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
6
4Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
5
5Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
3
6Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
3
7Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
2
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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 "Bedford level experiment" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
1
2Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
0
3Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
0
4French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
0
5Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
0
6Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
0
7Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
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 "Bedford level experiment" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Bedford Level experiment
17
2Spanish (es)
Experimento de Bedford Level
5
3Russian (ru)
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
5
4Indonesian (id)
Percobaan Bedford Level
3
5Arabic (ar)
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
2
6French (fr)
Expérience de Bedford Level
1
7Simple English (simple)
Bedford level experiment
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تجربة انبساط الأرض في بدفورد
enEnglish
Bedford Level experiment
esSpanish
Experimento de Bedford Level
frFrench
Expérience de Bedford Level
idIndonesian
Percobaan Bedford Level
ruRussian
Эксперимент с уровнем Бедфорда
simpleSimple English
Bedford level experiment

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#9064
06.2024
Global:
#130670
03.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2899
12.2023
Global:
#44262
02.2016

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Bedford Level experiment from Wikipedia articles about The flat earth society, Samuel Rowbotham, International Flat, Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth and Flat Earth. Whereas reading the article about Bedford Level experiment people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Atmospheric refraction, Samuel Rowbotham, Alfred Russel Wallace, Koreshan Unity and Theodolite.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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