Dark matter

Quality:

Dark matter - mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe. Article “Dark matter” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean 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 4107^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4778^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4098^th most popular in all topics.

The 2630^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7127^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Dark matter”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4778^th place) and edited by 4691 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2630^th place).

The article is cited 100 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9466 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #278 in October 2016
• Global: #285 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #655 in December 2009
• Global: #1229 in September 2008

There are 52 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	Korean (ko) 암흑물질		99.3527
2	English (en) Dark matter		94.1872
3	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		93.8462
4	Basque (eu) Materia ilun		85.6818
5	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		74.5776
6	German (de) Dunkle Materie		62.5215
7	Estonian (et) Tumeaine		61.5448
8	Catalan (ca) Matèria fosca		58.3021
9	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		52.1185
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vật chất tối		51.8069

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark matter		23 616 968
2	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		3 675 632
3	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		3 548 147
4	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		3 246 696
5	German (de) Dunkle Materie		2 336 492
6	French (fr) Matière noire		1 800 220
7	Italian (it) Materia oscura		1 244 461
8	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		1 161 400
9	Polish (pl) Ciemna materia		995 885
10	Portuguese (pt) Matéria escura		851 704

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) Dark matter		42 756
2	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		8 984
3	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		5 505
4	German (de) Dunkle Materie		4 958
5	French (fr) Matière noire		3 737
6	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		3 049
7	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		2 667
8	Italian (it) Materia oscura		2 032
9	Polish (pl) Ciemna materia		1 924
10	Persian (fa) ماده تاریک		1 310

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark matter		1 729
2	German (de) Dunkle Materie		378
3	French (fr) Matière noire		277
4	Italian (it) Materia oscura		197
5	Spanish (es) Materia oscura		191
6	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		164
7	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		126
8	Dutch (nl) Donkere materie		126
9	Hebrew (he) חומר אפל		103
10	Chinese (zh) 暗物质		91

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) Dark matter		4
2	French (fr) Matière noire		2
3	Russian (ru) Тёмная материя		2
4	Arabic (ar) المادة المظلمة		1
5	Catalan (ca) Matèria fosca		1
6	Czech (cs) Temná hmota		1
7	Basque (eu) Materia ilun		1
8	Japanese (ja) 暗黒物質		1
9	Romanian (ro) Materia întunecată		1
10	Belarusian (be) Цёмная матэрыя		0

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

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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