W and Z bosons

Quality:

W or Z boson - massive gauge bosons that mediate the weak nuclear interaction. Article “W and Z bosons” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 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.

Since the creation of article “W and Z bosons”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 952 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4939 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #623 in January 2017
• Global: #147 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #797 in July 2012
• Global: #18320 in July 2012

There are 39 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	English (en) W and Z bosons		61.9912
2	Portuguese (pt) Bósons W e Z		41.2417
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) W- og Z-boson		38.5452
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) W i Z bozoni		37.967
5	Turkish (tr) W ve Z bozonları		37.2056
6	Catalan (ca) Bosons W i Z		33.3819
7	Croatian (hr) W i Z bozoni		29.4075
8	Spanish (es) Bosones W y Z		28.8577
9	Russian (ru) W- и Z-бозоны		28.7634
10	Korean (ko) W와 Z보손		26.0505

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) W and Z bosons		2 963 152
2	Spanish (es) Bosones W y Z		387 614
3	Japanese (ja) ウィークボソン		328 007
4	Russian (ru) W- и Z-бозоны		245 379
5	Italian (it) Bosoni W e Z		235 567
6	Chinese (zh) W及Z玻色子		119 072
7	Portuguese (pt) Bósons W e Z		92 370
8	Czech (cs) Boson W a Z		61 609
9	Korean (ko) W와 Z보손		61 442
10	Simple English (simple) W and Z bosons		59 514

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) W and Z bosons		13 071
2	Italian (it) Bosoni W e Z		1 539
3	Spanish (es) Bosones W y Z		1 394
4	Portuguese (pt) Bósons W e Z		1 063
5	Japanese (ja) ウィークボソン		882
6	Russian (ru) W- и Z-бозоны		850
7	Simple English (simple) W and Z bosons		746
8	Chinese (zh) W及Z玻色子		571
9	Turkish (tr) W ve Z bozonları		555
10	Indonesian (id) Boson W dan Z		289

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) W and Z bosons		282
2	Italian (it) Bosoni W e Z		80
3	Greek (el) Μποζόνια W και Z		50
4	Spanish (es) Bosones W y Z		47
5	Japanese (ja) ウィークボソン		42
6	Russian (ru) W- и Z-бозоны		41
7	Chinese (zh) W及Z玻色子		37
8	Hebrew (he) בוזוני W ו-Z		36
9	Hungarian (hu) W- és Z-bozonok		31
10	Croatian (hr) W i Z bozoni		27

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) بوزونات دبليو وزد		1
2	English (en) W and Z bosons		1
3	Belarusian (be) W- і Z-базоны		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) W и Z бозони		0
5	Catalan (ca) Bosons W i Z		0
6	Czech (cs) Boson W a Z		0
7	Danish (da) W- og Z-bosoner		0
8	Greek (el) Μποζόνια W και Z		0
9	Spanish (es) Bosones W y Z		0
10	Estonian (et) W- ja Z-boson		0

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

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, Pornhub, XXXTentacion, XVideos, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Manon Bannerman, Ajit Pawar, List of U.S. states, List of sex positions.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information