Oil well

Oil well - well drilled in the ground or the seabed to recover hydrocarbons. Article “Oil well” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.68 points.

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 “Oil well”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 764 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3033 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #300 in December 2006
• Global: #14250 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7223 in June 2010
• Global: #10884 in June 2010

There are 25 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	English (en) Oil well		69.3724
2	Portuguese (pt) Poço de petróleo		49.8692
3	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		40.6562
4	Japanese (ja) 油井		38.4485
5	Tamil (ta) எண்ணெய்க் கிணறு		30.2746
6	Russian (ru) Нефтяная скважина		28.6401
7	Basque (eu) Petrolio-putzu		24.8429
8	Catalan (ca) Pou petrolífer		22.1407
9	Hebrew (he) באר נפט		20.9298
10	Hindi (hi) तेल कूप		17.6553

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Oil well" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Oil well		4 679 082
2	Spanish (es) Pozo petrolífero		653 062
3	Russian (ru) Нефтяная скважина		385 983
4	Japanese (ja) 油井		346 931
5	Portuguese (pt) Poço de petróleo		318 977
6	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		300 625
7	Arabic (ar) بئر نفط		167 175
8	Polish (pl) Szyb naftowy		139 533
9	Persian (fa) چاه نفت		76 220
10	Chinese (zh) 油井		54 584

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Oil well" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Oil well		9 958
2	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		951
3	Japanese (ja) 油井		918
4	Russian (ru) Нефтяная скважина		879
5	Simple English (simple) Oil well		643
6	Portuguese (pt) Poço de petróleo		393
7	Arabic (ar) بئر نفط		392
8	Spanish (es) Pozo petrolífero		336
9	Polish (pl) Szyb naftowy		304
10	Chinese (zh) 油井		226

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

Language versions of the article "Oil well" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Oil well		395
2	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		68
3	Russian (ru) Нефтяная скважина		40
4	Spanish (es) Pozo petrolífero		35
5	Japanese (ja) 油井		30
6	Portuguese (pt) Poço de petróleo		28
7	Simple English (simple) Oil well		23
8	Norwegian (no) Oljebrønn		20
9	Arabic (ar) بئر نفط		18
10	Tamil (ta) எண்ணெய்க் கிணறு		17

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

Language versions of the article "Oil well" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Oil well		2
2	Arabic (ar) بئر نفط		0
3	Catalan (ca) Pou petrolífer		0
4	Spanish (es) Pozo petrolífero		0
5	Basque (eu) Petrolio-putzu		0
6	Persian (fa) چاه نفت		0
7	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		0
8	Hebrew (he) באר נפט		0
9	Hindi (hi) तेल कूप		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Olajkút		0

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

Language versions of the article "Oil well" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Oil well		1 130
2	Portuguese (pt) Poço de petróleo		360
3	Persian (fa) چاه نفت		273
4	Arabic (ar) بئر نفط		217
5	Spanish (es) Pozo petrolífero		188
6	French (fr) Puits de pétrole		135
7	Japanese (ja) 油井		112
8	Russian (ru) Нефтяная скважина		89
9	Chinese (zh) 油井		74
10	Vietnamese (vi) Giếng dầu		57

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بئر نفط
ca	Catalan Pou petrolífer
en	English Oil well
es	Spanish Pozo petrolífero
eu	Basque Petrolio-putzu
fa	Persian چاه نفت
fr	French Puits de pétrole
he	Hebrew באר נפט
hi	Hindi तेल कूप
hu	Hungarian Olajkút
id	Indonesian Sumur minyak
ja	Japanese 油井
ko	Korean 유정 (석유)
ms	Malay Telaga minyak
nl	Dutch Oliebron
no	Norwegian Oljebrønn
pl	Polish Szyb naftowy
pt	Portuguese Poço de petróleo
ru	Russian Нефтяная скважина
simple	Simple English Oil well
ta	Tamil எண்ணெய்க் கிணறு
tr	Turkish Petrol kuyusu
uk	Ukrainian Нафтова свердловина
vi	Vietnamese Giếng dầu
zh	Chinese 油井

Best Rank

Simple English: #7223 06.2010

Global: #10884 06.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #300 12.2006

Global: #14250 12.2013

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