Variable star

Quality:

Variable star - star whose brightness as seen from Earth fluctuates. Article “Variable star” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Variable star”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1304 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 43857 times in all languages (3805^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1967 in October 2008
• Global: #3487 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3309 in August 2016
• Global: #65614 in March 2015

There are 49 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	Swedish (sv) Variabel stjärna		95.0776
2	English (en) Variable star		94.3058
3	Chinese (zh) 變星		89.1342
4	Italian (it) Stella variabile		87.7229
5	Turkish (tr) Değişen yıldız		78.2908
6	Ukrainian (uk) Змінна зоря		77.9926
7	Russian (ru) Переменная звезда		70.9127
8	Basque (eu) Izar aldakor		67.9036
9	Hungarian (hu) Változócsillag		61.7603
10	Dutch (nl) Veranderlijke ster		49.2047

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Variable star		1 344 273
2	Russian (ru) Переменная звезда		463 044
3	Spanish (es) Estrella variable		245 528
4	Japanese (ja) 変光星		243 372
5	German (de) Veränderlicher Stern		199 434
6	Italian (it) Stella variabile		148 208
7	Polish (pl) Gwiazda zmienna		146 020
8	Chinese (zh) 變星		138 775
9	French (fr) Étoile variable		127 052
10	Ukrainian (uk) Змінна зоря		111 357

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) Variable star		3 406
2	Russian (ru) Переменная звезда		766
3	Chinese (zh) 變星		545
4	Japanese (ja) 変光星		531
5	German (de) Veränderlicher Stern		513
6	French (fr) Étoile variable		303
7	Italian (it) Stella variabile		287
8	Spanish (es) Estrella variable		255
9	Polish (pl) Gwiazda zmienna		193
10	Hungarian (hu) Változócsillag		113

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Variable star		203
2	German (de) Veränderlicher Stern		142
3	French (fr) Étoile variable		87
4	Russian (ru) Переменная звезда		82
5	Italian (it) Stella variabile		79
6	Dutch (nl) Veranderlijke ster		69
7	Spanish (es) Estrella variable		54
8	Hungarian (hu) Változócsillag		53
9	Swedish (sv) Variabel stjärna		42
10	Polish (pl) Gwiazda zmienna		30

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	Spanish (es) Estrella variable		2
2	Chinese (zh) 變星		2
3	Arabic (ar) نجم متغير		1
4	Basque (eu) Izar aldakor		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Változócsillag		1
6	Italian (it) Stella variabile		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Змінна зоря		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sao biến quang		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dəyişən ulduz		0
10	Belarusian (be) Пераменная зорка		0

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

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