Lorentz contraction

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Lorentz contraction

Quality:

Length contraction - the contraction of length in the direction of propagation. Article “Lorentz contraction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Lorentz contraction”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 730 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1850 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2658 in April 2013
  • Global: #5497 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #11970 in May 2019
  • Global: #57979 in November 2014

There are 34 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
1English (en)
Length contraction
71.5974
2Chinese (zh)
长度收缩
68.9653
3Basque (eu)
Lorentzen uzkurdura
57.6642
4Portuguese (pt)
Contração do comprimento
56.7528
5Korean (ko)
길이 수축
48.5283
6German (de)
Lorentzkontraktion
47.7615
7Ukrainian (uk)
Лоренцеве укорочення
47.2672
8Spanish (es)
Contracción de Lorentz
45.7401
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Skraćenje dužine
33.8199
10Japanese (ja)
長さの収縮
31.2386
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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 "Lorentz contraction" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Length contraction
2 148 177
2German (de)
Lorentzkontraktion
436 487
3Spanish (es)
Contracción de Lorentz
370 726
4Russian (ru)
Лоренцево сокращение
248 710
5Italian (it)
Contrazione delle lunghezze
191 164
6Polish (pl)
Wzór Lorentza
161 975
7French (fr)
Contraction des longueurs
111 977
8Chinese (zh)
长度收缩
97 309
9Japanese (ja)
長さの収縮
92 717
10Indonesian (id)
Kontraksi panjang
68 578
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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 "Lorentz contraction" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Length contraction
7 212
2Russian (ru)
Лоренцево сокращение
1 263
3German (de)
Lorentzkontraktion
1 253
4Japanese (ja)
長さの収縮
1 009
5Italian (it)
Contrazione delle lunghezze
702
6Spanish (es)
Contracción de Lorentz
691
7Chinese (zh)
长度收缩
478
8Simple English (simple)
Lorentz contraction
423
9Polish (pl)
Wzór Lorentza
337
10French (fr)
Contraction des longueurs
329
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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 "Lorentz contraction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Length contraction
226
2German (de)
Lorentzkontraktion
98
3Italian (it)
Contrazione delle lunghezze
44
4Russian (ru)
Лоренцево сокращение
41
5French (fr)
Contraction des longueurs
36
6Dutch (nl)
Lengtecontractie
36
7Spanish (es)
Contracción de Lorentz
28
8Galician (gl)
Contracción de Lorentz
19
9Polish (pl)
Wzór Lorentza
19
10Chinese (zh)
长度收缩
17
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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 "Lorentz contraction" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تقلص الأطوال
1
2German (de)
Lorentzkontraktion
1
3Catalan (ca)
Contracció de Lorentz
0
4Czech (cs)
Kontrakce délek
0
5Danish (da)
Længdeforkortelse
0
6English (en)
Length contraction
0
7Spanish (es)
Contracción de Lorentz
0
8Basque (eu)
Lorentzen uzkurdura
0
9Persian (fa)
انقباض طول
0
10French (fr)
Contraction des longueurs
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 "Lorentz contraction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Length contraction
305
2French (fr)
Contraction des longueurs
145
3Chinese (zh)
长度收缩
127
4Arabic (ar)
تقلص الأطوال
116
5Korean (ko)
길이 수축
104
6Persian (fa)
انقباض طول
100
7Ukrainian (uk)
Лоренцеве укорочення
93
8Serbian (sr)
Kontrakcija dužine
89
9Polish (pl)
Wzór Lorentza
87
10Japanese (ja)
長さの収縮
78
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Scores

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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تقلص الأطوال
caCatalan
Contracció de Lorentz
csCzech
Kontrakce délek
daDanish
Længdeforkortelse
deGerman
Lorentzkontraktion
enEnglish
Length contraction
esSpanish
Contracción de Lorentz
euBasque
Lorentzen uzkurdura
faPersian
انقباض طول
frFrench
Contraction des longueurs
glGalician
Contracción de Lorentz
hrCroatian
Kontrakcija dužine
huHungarian
Hosszkontrakció
hyArmenian
Երկարության կրճատում
idIndonesian
Kontraksi panjang
itItalian
Contrazione delle lunghezze
jaJapanese
長さの収縮
koKorean
길이 수축
nlDutch
Lengtecontractie
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Lengdekontraksjon
noNorwegian
Lengdekontraksjon
plPolish
Wzór Lorentza
ptPortuguese
Contração do comprimento
roRomanian
Contracția Lorentz
ruRussian
Лоренцево сокращение
shSerbo-Croatian
Skraćenje dužine
simpleSimple English
Lorentz contraction
srSerbian
Kontrakcija dužine
svSwedish
Längdkontraktion
taTamil
நீளச் சுருக்கம்
ukUkrainian
Лоренцеве укорочення
urUrdu
لمبائی کا سکڑاؤ
viVietnamese
Co ngắn chiều dài
zhChinese
长度收缩

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#11970
05.2019
Global:
#57979
11.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2658
04.2013
Global:
#5497
10.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Length contraction from Wikipedia articles about Ladder paradox, Time dilation, Special relativity, Theory of relativity and Spacetime. Whereas reading the article about Length contraction people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Time dilation, Bells spaceship paradox, Ladder paradox, Michelson–Morley experiment and Hendrik Lorentz.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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