Snowball Earth

Quality:

Snowball Earth - worldwide glaciation episodes during the Cryogenian Period of the Neoproterozoic Era. Article “Snowball Earth” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Snowball Earth” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4135^th place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Snowball Earth”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1511 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1694 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1931 in March 2012
• Global: #244 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3769 in December 2010
• Global: #14011 in April 2026

There are 36 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) Snowball Earth		91.3219
2	Hungarian (hu) Hógolyó-Föld		89.1889
3	French (fr) Terre boule de neige		70.6949
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Soat-kiû tē-kiû		58.7411
5	Portuguese (pt) Terra bola de neve		56.3871
6	German (de) Schneeball Erde		48.9602
7	Indonesian (id) Bumi Bola Salju		46.1278
8	Russian (ru) Земля-снежок		40.6157
9	Simple English (simple) Snowball Earth		40.1569
10	Chinese (zh) 雪球地球		38.2139

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Snowball Earth		3 831 266
2	Japanese (ja) スノーボールアース		1 499 453
3	Russian (ru) Земля-снежок		706 443
4	Spanish (es) Glaciación global		471 183
5	German (de) Schneeball Erde		417 291
6	Polish (pl) Ziemia śnieżka		317 045
7	Chinese (zh) 雪球地球		201 700
8	French (fr) Terre boule de neige		181 200
9	Italian (it) Terra a palla di neve		144 119
10	Portuguese (pt) Terra bola de neve		103 717

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) Snowball Earth		14 307
2	Japanese (ja) スノーボールアース		7 037
3	Russian (ru) Земля-снежок		2 214
4	German (de) Schneeball Erde		1 352
5	Chinese (zh) 雪球地球		1 001
6	French (fr) Terre boule de neige		671
7	Polish (pl) Ziemia śnieżka		626
8	Spanish (es) Glaciación global		606
9	Italian (it) Terra a palla di neve		399
10	Korean (ko) 눈덩이 지구		217

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Snowball Earth		479
2	German (de) Schneeball Erde		127
3	Russian (ru) Земля-снежок		84
4	Japanese (ja) スノーボールアース		79
5	Dutch (nl) Sneeuwbalaarde		73
6	Polish (pl) Ziemia śnieżka		73
7	French (fr) Terre boule de neige		68
8	Spanish (es) Glaciación global		60
9	Italian (it) Terra a palla di neve		57
10	Finnish (fi) Lumipallomaa		45

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) الأرض كرة ثلج		1
2	English (en) Snowball Earth		1
3	French (fr) Terre boule de neige		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Hógolyó-Föld		1
5	Korean (ko) 눈덩이 지구		1
6	Simple English (simple) Snowball Earth		1
7	Chinese (zh) 雪球地球		1
8	Catalan (ca) Terra bola de neu		0
9	Czech (cs) Teorie sněhové koule		0
10	Danish (da) Sneboldjord		0

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

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