Halley's Comet

Quality:

Halley's Comet - short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years. Article “Halley's Comet” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6435^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5100^th most popular in all topics.

The 5102^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6601^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Halley's Comet”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6435^th place) and edited by 3560 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5102^nd place).

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 50135 times in all languages (3266^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #78 in May 2004
• Global: #480 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4765 in November 2010
• Global: #210 in May 2014

There are 54 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	English (en) Halley's Comet		99.5302
2	Russian (ru) Комета Галлея		95.0814
3	Portuguese (pt) Cometa Halley		90.9411
4	Chinese (zh) 哈雷彗星		87.4648
5	Japanese (ja) ハレー彗星		84.6878
6	Norwegian (no) Halleys komet		80.9929
7	Ukrainian (uk) Комета Галлея		66.5855
8	Indonesian (id) Komet Halley		64.8988
9	Hebrew (he) שביט האלי		63.7302
10	Catalan (ca) Cometa de Halley		59.7836

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Halley's Comet		19 302 481
2	Spanish (es) Cometa Halley		5 202 656
3	Portuguese (pt) Cometa Halley		2 114 493
4	Russian (ru) Комета Галлея		2 100 856
5	Japanese (ja) ハレー彗星		1 964 446
6	German (de) Halleyscher Komet		1 658 127
7	French (fr) Comète de Halley		1 510 030
8	Italian (it) Cometa di Halley		1 377 215
9	Polish (pl) Kometa Halleya		943 504
10	Chinese (zh) 哈雷彗星		758 855

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) Halley's Comet		56 364
2	French (fr) Comète de Halley		6 453
3	Spanish (es) Cometa Halley		5 307
4	Japanese (ja) ハレー彗星		4 769
5	German (de) Halleyscher Komet		4 004
6	Russian (ru) Комета Галлея		3 611
7	Portuguese (pt) Cometa Halley		3 536
8	Italian (it) Cometa di Halley		2 657
9	Chinese (zh) 哈雷彗星		2 185
10	Polish (pl) Kometa Halleya		1 341

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Halley's Comet		1 048
2	French (fr) Comète de Halley		223
3	German (de) Halleyscher Komet		212
4	Spanish (es) Cometa Halley		176
5	Italian (it) Cometa di Halley		168
6	Russian (ru) Комета Галлея		167
7	Japanese (ja) ハレー彗星		157
8	Portuguese (pt) Cometa Halley		110
9	Dutch (nl) Komeet Halley		80
10	Hebrew (he) שביט האלי		74

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) Halley's Comet		5
2	Ukrainian (uk) Комета Галлея		3
3	Chinese (zh) 哈雷彗星		3
4	Arabic (ar) مذنب هالي		2
5	Danish (da) Halleys komet		2
6	Finnish (fi) Halleyn komeetta		2
7	Catalan (ca) Cometa de Halley		1
8	Czech (cs) Halleyova kometa		1
9	French (fr) Comète de Halley		1
10	Hebrew (he) שביט האלי		1

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

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