Special relativity

Quality:

Special relativity - physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Article “Special relativity” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1493^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1323^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5656^th most popular in all topics.

The 2977^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5980^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6516^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Special relativity”, its content was written by 73 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1323^rd place) and edited by 4522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2977^th place).

The article is cited 80 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #57 in February 2009
• Global: #195 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #60 in December 2012
• Global: #274 in June 2017

There are 53 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	Latin (la) Relativitas specialis		99.1305
2	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הפרטית		97.0294
3	English (en) Special relativity		89.4835
4	Finnish (fi) Erityinen suhteellisuusteoria		86.0842
5	Hindi (hi) विशिष्ट आपेक्षिकता		82.4165
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thuyết tương đối hẹp		71.0146
7	Persian (fa) نسبیت خاص		67.6007
8	Russian (ru) Специальная теория относительности		62.4686
9	Catalan (ca) Relativitat especial		60.4956
10	French (fr) Relativité restreinte		59.4033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Special relativity		12 199 895
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de la relatividad especial		3 970 373
3	Russian (ru) Специальная теория относительности		3 008 889
4	Japanese (ja) 特殊相対性理論		2 816 163
5	French (fr) Relativité restreinte		2 197 388
6	German (de) Spezielle Relativitätstheorie		1 761 076
7	Turkish (tr) Özel görelilik		1 651 619
8	Italian (it) Relatività ristretta		1 608 348
9	Polish (pl) Szczególna teoria względności		1 531 847
10	Chinese (zh) 狭义相对论		1 093 743

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) Special relativity		22 536
2	Japanese (ja) 特殊相対性理論		5 409
3	German (de) Spezielle Relativitätstheorie		3 763
4	Russian (ru) Специальная теория относительности		3 724
5	French (fr) Relativité restreinte		3 594
6	Chinese (zh) 狭义相对论		2 566
7	Spanish (es) Teoría de la relatividad especial		2 316
8	Polish (pl) Szczególna teoria względności		1 912
9	Italian (it) Relatività ristretta		1 761
10	Turkish (tr) Özel görelilik		1 309

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Special relativity		1 111
2	French (fr) Relativité restreinte		360
3	German (de) Spezielle Relativitätstheorie		305
4	Russian (ru) Специальная теория относительности		212
5	Italian (it) Relatività ristretta		195
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de la relatividad especial		186
7	Japanese (ja) 特殊相対性理論		145
8	Dutch (nl) Speciale relativiteitstheorie		139
9	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הפרטית		129
10	Turkish (tr) Özel görelilik		113

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	English (en) Special relativity		9
2	Hebrew (he) תורת היחסות הפרטית		5
3	Persian (fa) نسبیت خاص		2
4	Arabic (ar) النسبية الخاصة		1
5	Basque (eu) Erlatibitate berezia		1
6	Finnish (fi) Erityinen suhteellisuusteoria		1
7	French (fr) Relativité restreinte		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Speciális relativitáselmélet		1
9	Italian (it) Relatività ristretta		1
10	Japanese (ja) 特殊相対性理論		1

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

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