Contact binary star

Quality:

Contact binary - binary star system whose component stars are very close. Article “Contact binary star” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 1 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 “Contact binary star”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2405 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3106 in September 2024
• Global: #6931 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7819 in November 2024
• Global: #288394 in January 2019

There are 21 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	Simple English (simple) Contact binary star		26.2695
2	Czech (cs) Těsná dvojhvězda		24.864
3	Slovak (sk) Kontaktná dvojhviezda		24.8207
4	Turkish (tr) Değen ikili yıldız		23.19
5	Korean (ko) 접촉쌍성		22.3831
6	Italian (it) Binaria a contatto		21.9909
7	Polish (pl) Układ podwójny kontaktowy		21.8722
8	Japanese (ja) 接触連星		21.5234
9	Catalan (ca) Estrella binària de contacte		19.9049
10	English (en) Contact binary		19.7503

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contact binary		250 882
2	Russian (ru) Тесная двойная система		80 890
3	Japanese (ja) 接触連星		33 405
4	Spanish (es) Estrella binaria de contacto		25 180
5	Polish (pl) Układ podwójny kontaktowy		20 050
6	French (fr) Étoile binaire à contact		16 386
7	Chinese (zh) 密接聯星		13 157
8	Portuguese (pt) Estrela binária de contacto		11 761
9	Korean (ko) 접촉쌍성		5 080
10	Finnish (fi) Kosketuskaksoistähti		4 978

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) Contact binary		1 745
2	Russian (ru) Тесная двойная система		229
3	Chinese (zh) 密接聯星		156
4	Japanese (ja) 接触連星		153
5	French (fr) Étoile binaire à contact		80
6	Spanish (es) Estrella binaria de contacto		68
7	Simple English (simple) Contact binary star		58
8	Korean (ko) 접촉쌍성		44
9	Polish (pl) Układ podwójny kontaktowy		41
10	Portuguese (pt) Estrela binária de contacto		20

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contact binary		51
2	French (fr) Étoile binaire à contact		29
3	Russian (ru) Тесная двойная система		13
4	Italian (it) Binaria a contatto		8
5	Catalan (ca) Estrella binària de contacte		7
6	Czech (cs) Těsná dvojhvězda		7
7	Finnish (fi) Kosketuskaksoistähti		7
8	Polish (pl) Układ podwójny kontaktowy		7
9	Arabic (ar) ثنائي متصل		5
10	Korean (ko) 접촉쌍성		5

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	Turkish (tr) Değen ikili yıldız		3
2	Italian (it) Binaria a contatto		1
3	Arabic (ar) ثنائي متصل		0
4	Catalan (ca) Estrella binària de contacte		0
5	Czech (cs) Těsná dvojhvězda		0
6	English (en) Contact binary		0
7	Spanish (es) Estrella binaria de contacto		0
8	Basque (eu) Kontaktuzko izar bitar		0
9	Finnish (fi) Kosketuskaksoistähti		0
10	French (fr) Étoile binaire à contact		0

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

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