Lignite

Quality:

Lignite - type of fossil fuel; soft brown combustible sedimentary rock. Article “Lignite” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Lignite”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1631 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11329 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2760 in January 2023
• Global: #5827 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8594 in December 2025
• Global: #10359 in November 2014

There are 48 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) Lignite		87.8355
2	German (de) Braunkohle		69.735
3	Thai (th) ลิกไนต์		51.5495
4	Serbian (sr) Лигнит		48.8214
5	Arabic (ar) فحم بني		38.7674
6	Slovak (sk) Hnedé uhlie		36.9401
7	Russian (ru) Бурый уголь		36.0258
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lignit		34.8828
9	Chinese (zh) 褐煤		34.8053
10	Polish (pl) Węgiel brunatny		32.9771

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lignite		3 544 573
2	German (de) Braunkohle		2 113 612
3	Polish (pl) Węgiel brunatny		1 470 169
4	Russian (ru) Бурый уголь		894 746
5	Spanish (es) Lignito		724 072
6	Japanese (ja) 褐炭		599 574
7	French (fr) Lignite		572 338
8	Czech (cs) Hnědé uhlí		438 893
9	Dutch (nl) Bruinkool		331 506
10	Turkish (tr) Linyit		321 145

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) Lignite		9 418
2	German (de) Braunkohle		2 839
3	Russian (ru) Бурый уголь		1 413
4	Japanese (ja) 褐炭		1 287
5	French (fr) Lignite		1 229
6	Greek (el) Λιγνίτης		980
7	Polish (pl) Węgiel brunatny		852
8	Czech (cs) Hnědé uhlí		557
9	Spanish (es) Lignito		494
10	Dutch (nl) Bruinkool		470

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lignite		289
2	German (de) Braunkohle		270
3	French (fr) Lignite		90
4	Polish (pl) Węgiel brunatny		90
5	Dutch (nl) Bruinkool		89
6	Russian (ru) Бурый уголь		82
7	Italian (it) Lignite		62
8	Czech (cs) Hnědé uhlí		51
9	Turkish (tr) Linyit		41
10	Japanese (ja) 褐炭		40

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	German (de) Braunkohle		2
2	Russian (ru) Бурый уголь		2
3	Croatian (hr) Lignit		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Lignit		1
5	Japanese (ja) 褐炭		1
6	Swedish (sv) Brunkol		1
7	Chinese (zh) 褐煤		1
8	Arabic (ar) فحم بني		0
9	Belarusian (be) Буры вугаль		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Лигнитни въглища		0

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

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