Water (classical element)

Quality:

Water - classical element in philosophy and cosmology. Article “Water (classical element)” in English Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.39 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Water (classical element)”, its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 287 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 209 times in English Wikipedia and cited 966 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1232 in September 2001
• Global: #1555 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9414 in February 2008
• Global: #18255 in February 2008

There are 12 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	Italian (it) Acqua (elemento)		46.6538
2	Russian (ru) Вода (стихия)		30.6771
3	Armenian (hy) Ջուր (տարր)		26.5717
4	English (en) Water (classical element)		26.4384
5	Serbian (sr) Вода (основни елемент)		23.7708
6	Spanish (es) Agua (elemento)		23.7376
7	Portuguese (pt) Água (elemento)		22.7345
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy (nguyên tố cổ điển)		21.3481
9	Arabic (ar) ماء (عنصر تقليدي)		19.8985
10	Turkish (tr) Su (klasik element)		15.4415

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water (classical element)		1 485 651
2	Spanish (es) Agua (elemento)		656 995
3	Portuguese (pt) Água (elemento)		301 434
4	French (fr) Signe eau		248 563
5	Italian (it) Acqua (elemento)		215 082
6	Russian (ru) Вода (стихия)		146 402
7	Arabic (ar) ماء (عنصر تقليدي)		16 345
8	Catalan (ca) Aigua (element)		13 322
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy (nguyên tố cổ điển)		1 845
10	Armenian (hy) Ջուր (տարր)		812

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) Water (classical element)		4 079
2	French (fr) Signe eau		1 585
3	Russian (ru) Вода (стихия)		763
4	Spanish (es) Agua (elemento)		707
5	Italian (it) Acqua (elemento)		577
6	Portuguese (pt) Água (elemento)		256
7	Arabic (ar) ماء (عنصر تقليدي)		42
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy (nguyên tố cổ điển)		32
9	Catalan (ca) Aigua (element)		30
10	Armenian (hy) Ջուր (տարր)		19

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water (classical element)		123
2	Italian (it) Acqua (elemento)		52
3	Spanish (es) Agua (elemento)		35
4	Portuguese (pt) Água (elemento)		33
5	Russian (ru) Вода (стихия)		15
6	Catalan (ca) Aigua (element)		7
7	Arabic (ar) ماء (عنصر تقليدي)		6
8	French (fr) Signe eau		5
9	Serbian (sr) Вода (основни елемент)		4
10	Armenian (hy) Ջուր (տարր)		3

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) ماء (عنصر تقليدي)		0
2	Catalan (ca) Aigua (element)		0
3	English (en) Water (classical element)		0
4	Spanish (es) Agua (elemento)		0
5	French (fr) Signe eau		0
6	Armenian (hy) Ջուր (տարր)		0
7	Italian (it) Acqua (elemento)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Água (elemento)		0
9	Russian (ru) Вода (стихия)		0
10	Serbian (sr) Вода (основни елемент)		0

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

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