Paraffin wax

Quality:

Paraffin wax - waxy mixture of higher alkanes. Article “Paraffin wax” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Paraffin wax”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1593 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4765 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4412 in October 2014
• Global: #2636 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5440 in August 2010
• Global: #6896 in March 2016

There are 45 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	French (fr) Paraffine		69.5071
2	English (en) Paraffin wax		49.2346
3	German (de) Paraffin		44.3369
4	Hungarian (hu) Paraffin		31.8779
5	Polish (pl) Parafina		28.361
6	Vietnamese (vi) Parafin		28.3323
7	Korean (ko) 파라핀		27.3523
8	Belarusian (be) Парафін		27.1205
9	Latin (la) Paraffina		25.7169
10	Portuguese (pt) Parafina		24.0697

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paraffin wax		4 649 010
2	German (de) Paraffin		3 317 290
3	Spanish (es) Parafina		3 054 464
4	Japanese (ja) パラフィン		2 014 733
5	French (fr) Paraffine		1 563 954
6	Russian (ru) Парафин		1 535 122
7	Italian (it) Paraffina		1 198 657
8	Polish (pl) Parafina		1 016 611
9	Portuguese (pt) Parafina		716 310
10	Dutch (nl) Paraffine		552 613

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) Paraffin wax		14 978
2	German (de) Paraffin		4 889
3	Japanese (ja) パラフィン		4 275
4	Russian (ru) Парафин		3 425
5	French (fr) Paraffine		2 979
6	Spanish (es) Parafina		2 277
7	Italian (it) Paraffina		1 716
8	Chinese (zh) 石蜡		923
9	Polish (pl) Parafina		892
10	Persian (fa) پارافین		765

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paraffin wax		301
2	German (de) Paraffin		211
3	French (fr) Paraffine		131
4	Russian (ru) Парафин		88
5	Italian (it) Paraffina		84
6	Spanish (es) Parafina		68
7	Dutch (nl) Paraffine		67
8	Japanese (ja) パラフィン		53
9	Swedish (sv) Paraffin		43
10	Hungarian (hu) Paraffin		33

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	Arabic (ar) برافين		2
2	German (de) Paraffin		1
3	Persian (fa) پارافین		1
4	French (fr) Paraffine		1
5	Urdu (ur) نالفین		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Parafin		0
7	Belarusian (be) Парафін		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Парафин		0
9	Catalan (ca) Parafina		0
10	Czech (cs) Parafín		0

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

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