The Butterfly Effect

Quality:

The Butterfly Effect - 2004 film directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. This film is the 490^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “The Butterfly Effect” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8877^th most popular in all topics.

The 490^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8694^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Butterfly Effect”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Butterfly Effect is on the 490^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 859 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4725 in February 2018
• Global: #4012 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8801 in June 2015
• Global: #3332 in August 2010

There are 40 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	Spanish (es) El efecto mariposa (película de 2004)		68.4022
2	English (en) The Butterfly Effect		63.0082
3	Armenian (hy) Թիթեռի էֆեկտ (ֆիլմ)		43.581
4	Belarusian (be) Эфект матыля (фільм)		34.9144
5	French (fr) L'Effet papillon (film, 2004)		30.5267
6	Greek (el) Το φαινόμενο της πεταλούδας (ταινία)		27.9175
7	German (de) Butterfly Effect		27.6296
8	Urdu (ur) دی بٹر فلائی ایفیکٹ		27.04
9	Persian (fa) اثر پروانه‌ای (فیلم)		26.7252
10	Russian (ru) Эффект бабочки (фильм)		25.0332

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Butterfly Effect		13 111 959
2	Spanish (es) El efecto mariposa (película de 2004)		3 464 735
3	Russian (ru) Эффект бабочки (фильм)		3 287 855
4	German (de) Butterfly Effect		3 105 255
5	Italian (it) The Butterfly Effect (film)		1 340 379
6	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Borboleta (filme)		1 158 453
7	French (fr) L'Effet papillon (film, 2004)		1 064 889
8	Chinese (zh) 連鎖蝶變		786 481
9	Japanese (ja) バタフライ・エフェクト (映画)		694 784
10	Polish (pl) Efekt motyla (film)		496 375

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) The Butterfly Effect		63 810
2	Russian (ru) Эффект бабочки (фильм)		9 604
3	Italian (it) The Butterfly Effect (film)		5 070
4	Polish (pl) Efekt motyla (film)		5 060
5	German (de) Butterfly Effect		4 556
6	Japanese (ja) バタフライ・エフェクト (映画)		4 551
7	Spanish (es) El efecto mariposa (película de 2004)		3 957
8	Chinese (zh) 連鎖蝶變		3 225
9	French (fr) L'Effet papillon (film, 2004)		2 820
10	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Borboleta (filme)		1 419

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Butterfly Effect		606
2	German (de) Butterfly Effect		213
3	French (fr) L'Effet papillon (film, 2004)		153
4	Russian (ru) Эффект бабочки (фильм)		118
5	Italian (it) The Butterfly Effect (film)		94
6	Spanish (es) El efecto mariposa (película de 2004)		89
7	Dutch (nl) The Butterfly Effect (film)		64
8	Portuguese (pt) Efeito Borboleta (filme)		55
9	Hungarian (hu) Pillangó-hatás		54
10	Japanese (ja) バタフライ・エフェクト (映画)		47

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) The Butterfly Effect		5
2	Turkish (tr) Kelebek Etkisi		2
3	Arabic (ar) تأثير الفراشة (فلم)		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kəpənək effekti (film, 2004)		1
5	German (de) Butterfly Effect		1
6	Basque (eu) The Butterfly Effect		1
7	Romanian (ro) Zbor de fluture		1
8	Belarusian (be) Эфект матыля (фільм)		0
9	Catalan (ca) The Butterfly Effect		0
10	Czech (cs) Osudový dotek		0

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

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