Balast

Ballast - material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Article “Balast” in Slovenian Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balast”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Slovenian Wikipedia and edited by 427 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Slovenian Wikipedia and cited 2461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Slovenian): #645 in March 2006
• Global: #15188 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Slovenian): #5821 in January 2009
• Global: #60350 in November 2009

There are 24 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	Catalan (ca) Llast		44.2999
2	Malay (ms) Balast		29.7724
3	Estonian (et) Ballast		25.0779
4	Danish (da) Ballast		21.8492
5	Kazakh (kk) Балласт		21.3352
6	English (en) Ballast		19.3568
7	Spanish (es) Lastre		18.6433
8	French (fr) Lest		18.5466
9	German (de) Ballast		18.0809
10	Arabic (ar) مياه الاتزان في السفن		15.3864

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Balast" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast		1 762 265
2	Japanese (ja) バラスト		383 282
3	Spanish (es) Lastre		360 555
4	Russian (ru) Балласт		308 265
5	German (de) Ballast		169 890
6	French (fr) Lest		142 232
7	Polish (pl) Balast		139 058
8	Portuguese (pt) Lastro (transporte)		92 169
9	Swedish (sv) Barlast		66 229
10	Norwegian (no) Ballast		30 445

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Balast" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballast		5 692
2	Japanese (ja) バラスト		926
3	Russian (ru) Балласт		818
4	German (de) Ballast		407
5	Spanish (es) Lastre		328
6	French (fr) Lest		294
7	Swedish (sv) Barlast		187
8	Polish (pl) Balast		176
9	Portuguese (pt) Lastro (transporte)		150
10	Simple English (simple) Ballast		114

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

Language versions of the article "Balast" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Ballast		80
2	Russian (ru) Балласт		42
3	French (fr) Lest		40
4	Norwegian (no) Ballast		33
5	Dutch (nl) Ballast (verzwaring)		32
6	Danish (da) Ballast		27
7	English (en) Ballast		27
8	Japanese (ja) バラスト		23
9	Polish (pl) Balast		23
10	Spanish (es) Lastre		19

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

Language versions of the article "Balast" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مياه الاتزان في السفن		0
2	Catalan (ca) Llast		0
3	Danish (da) Ballast		0
4	German (de) Ballast		0
5	English (en) Ballast		0
6	Spanish (es) Lastre		0
7	Estonian (et) Ballast		0
8	Basque (eu) Lasta		0
9	French (fr) Lest		0
10	Armenian (hy) Բալաստ		0

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

Language versions of the article "Balast" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ballast		448
2	German (de) Ballast		405
3	French (fr) Lest		285
4	Swedish (sv) Barlast		214
5	Japanese (ja) バラスト		173
6	Basque (eu) Lasta		160
7	Polish (pl) Balast		140
8	Norwegian (no) Ballast		122
9	Dutch (nl) Ballast (verzwaring)		87
10	Russian (ru) Балласт		82

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مياه الاتزان في السفن
ca	Catalan Llast
da	Danish Ballast
de	German Ballast
en	English Ballast
es	Spanish Lastre
et	Estonian Ballast
eu	Basque Lasta
fr	French Lest
hy	Armenian Բալաստ
ja	Japanese バラスト
kk	Kazakh Балласт
ms	Malay Balast
nl	Dutch Ballast (verzwaring)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Ballast
no	Norwegian Ballast
pl	Polish Balast
pt	Portuguese Lastro (transporte)
ru	Russian Балласт
simple	Simple English Ballast
sl	Slovenian Balast
sr	Serbian Баласт
sv	Swedish Barlast
uk	Ukrainian Баласт

Best Rank

Slovenian: #5821 01.2009

Global: #60350 11.2009

Best Rank

Slovenian: #645 03.2006

Global: #15188 02.2003

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