Maunder Minimum

Quality:

Maunder Minimum - The period starting about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots were exceedingly rare. Article “Maunder Minimum” in English Wikipedia has 52.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Maunder Minimum”, its content was written by 197 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 677 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 97 times in English Wikipedia and cited 664 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3634 in January 2002
• Global: #3878 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4442 in July 2015
• Global: #6138 in July 2015

There are 29 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) Maunder Minimum		52.5057
2	Chinese (zh) 蒙德極小期		37.1795
3	Swedish (sv) Maunderminimum		35.2529
4	German (de) Maunder-Minimum		33.7903
5	Norwegian (no) Maunder minimum		27.7655
6	Basque (eu) Maunderren minimo		21.5482
7	Romanian (ro) Minimul lui Maunder		19.5926
8	Japanese (ja) マウンダー極小期		19.577
9	French (fr) Minimum de Maunder		19.0712
10	Portuguese (pt) Mínimo de Maunder		18.2834

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maunder Minimum		1 844 058
2	Japanese (ja) マウンダー極小期		384 934
3	Spanish (es) Mínimo de Maunder		262 221
4	German (de) Maunder-Minimum		204 485
5	Russian (ru) Минимум Маундера		185 108
6	Italian (it) Minimo di Maunder		157 222
7	French (fr) Minimum de Maunder		147 898
8	Polish (pl) Minimum Maundera		91 700
9	Chinese (zh) 蒙德極小期		69 143
10	Portuguese (pt) Mínimo de Maunder		48 672

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) Maunder Minimum		4 253
2	Japanese (ja) マウンダー極小期		873
3	French (fr) Minimum de Maunder		649
4	Spanish (es) Mínimo de Maunder		507
5	Russian (ru) Минимум Маундера		418
6	Italian (it) Minimo di Maunder		411
7	German (de) Maunder-Minimum		320
8	Chinese (zh) 蒙德極小期		271
9	Portuguese (pt) Mínimo de Maunder		132
10	Polish (pl) Minimum Maundera		120

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Maunder Minimum		197
2	German (de) Maunder-Minimum		85
3	Italian (it) Minimo di Maunder		57
4	Japanese (ja) マウンダー極小期		49
5	French (fr) Minimum de Maunder		42
6	Spanish (es) Mínimo de Maunder		28
7	Russian (ru) Минимум Маундера		27
8	Dutch (nl) Maunderminimum		26
9	Galician (gl) Mínimo de Maunder		21
10	Polish (pl) Minimum Maundera		19

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	Italian (it) Minimo di Maunder		1
2	Catalan (ca) Mínim de Maunder		0
3	Czech (cs) Maunderovo minimum		0
4	Danish (da) Maunder Minimum		0
5	German (de) Maunder-Minimum		0
6	English (en) Maunder Minimum		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Minimumo Maunder		0
8	Spanish (es) Mínimo de Maunder		0
9	Estonian (et) Maunderi miinimum		0
10	Basque (eu) Maunderren minimo		0

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

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