W and Z bosons

W or Z boson - massive gauge bosons that mediate the weak nuclear interaction. Article “W and Z bosons” in English Wikipedia has 62 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 14 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.

In June 2025 the article “W and Z bosons” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “W and Z bosons”, its content was written by 282 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 952 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 551 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4939 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #64 in December 2003
• Global: #147 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18100 in September 2008
• 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

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

The most popular language versions of the article "W and Z bosons" in all the time

#	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

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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 "W and Z bosons" in June 2025

#	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

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

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

#	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

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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 "W and Z bosons" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	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

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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 "W and Z bosons" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) W and Z bosons		551
2	Catalan (ca) Bosons W i Z		331
3	Persian (fa) بوزون‌های دبلیو و زد		286
4	Italian (it) Bosoni W e Z		259
5	Chinese (zh) W及Z玻色子		256
6	Japanese (ja) ウィークボソン		252
7	Portuguese (pt) Bósons W e Z		211
8	Korean (ko) W와 Z보손		197
9	Russian (ru) W- и Z-бозоны		184
10	Ukrainian (uk) W- і Z-бозони		183

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بوزونات دبليو وزد
be	Belarusian W- і Z-базоны
bg	Bulgarian W и Z бозони
ca	Catalan Bosons W i Z
cs	Czech Boson W a Z
da	Danish W- og Z-bosoner
el	Greek Μποζόνια W και Z
en	English W and Z bosons
es	Spanish Bosones W y Z
et	Estonian W- ja Z-boson
eu	Basque W eta Z bosoi
fa	Persian بوزون‌های دبلیو و زد
fi	Finnish W- ja Z-bosonit
fr	French Bosons W et Z
gl	Galician Bosóns W e Z
he	Hebrew בוזוני W ו-Z
hi	Hindi W व Z बोसॉन
hr	Croatian W i Z bozoni
hu	Hungarian W- és Z-bozonok
hy	Armenian W- և Z-բոզոններ
id	Indonesian Boson W dan Z
it	Italian Bosoni W e Z
ja	Japanese ウィークボソン
ko	Korean W와 Z보손
lt	Lithuanian W ir Z bozonai
ms	Malay Boson W dan Z
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) W- og Z-boson
pt	Portuguese Bósons W e Z
ru	Russian W- и Z-бозоны
sh	Serbo-Croatian W i Z bozoni
simple	Simple English W and Z bosons
sk	Slovak Bozón W a Z
sl	Slovenian Bozoni W in Z
sr	Serbian W и Z бозони
sv	Swedish W- och Z-bosoner
tr	Turkish W ve Z bozonları
uk	Ukrainian W- і Z-бозони
vi	Vietnamese Boson W và Z
zh	Chinese W及Z玻色子

Best Rank

English: #18100 09.2008

Global: #18320 07.2012

Best Rank

English: #64 12.2003

Global: #147 12.2003

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