Mottenbal

Mothball - small balls of chemicals used to prevent damage to cloth by moth larvae. Article “Mottenbal” in Dutch Wikipedia has 2.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Mottenbal”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 309 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #2626 in February 2004
• Global: #19120 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #4579 in October 2017
• Global: #46922 in February 2012

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	English (en) Mothball		42.3012
2	Catalan (ca) Bola de naftalina		41.911
3	Chinese (zh) 樟腦丸		41.3655
4	Korean (ko) 좀약		37.3535
5	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		33.6577
6	Arabic (ar) كرات النفثالين		32.8888
7	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		32.2821
8	Malay (ms) Ubat gegat		20.2065
9	German (de) Mottenkugel		14.835
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chhàu-oân		3.7355

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mothball		4 723 497
2	Chinese (zh) 樟腦丸		469 200
3	German (de) Mottenkugel		230 482
4	Dutch (nl) Mottenbal		122 784
5	Arabic (ar) كرات النفثالين		28 323
6	Malay (ms) Ubat gegat		26 440
7	Korean (ko) 좀약		16 126
8	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		13 431
9	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		10 477
10	Simple English (simple) Mothball		10 355

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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 "Mottenbal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mothball		17 185
2	Chinese (zh) 樟腦丸		2 770
3	German (de) Mottenkugel		945
4	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		626
5	Arabic (ar) كرات النفثالين		270
6	Dutch (nl) Mottenbal		219
7	Korean (ko) 좀약		138
8	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		116
9	Malay (ms) Ubat gegat		96
10	Simple English (simple) Mothball		72

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mothball		209
2	German (de) Mottenkugel		31
3	Dutch (nl) Mottenbal		23
4	Chinese (zh) 樟腦丸		19
5	Catalan (ca) Bola de naftalina		5
6	Simple English (simple) Mothball		5
7	Arabic (ar) كرات النفثالين		4
8	Korean (ko) 좀약		4
9	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		3
10	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		2

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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 "Mottenbal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 좀약		2
2	Arabic (ar) كرات النفثالين		0
3	Catalan (ca) Bola de naftalina		0
4	German (de) Mottenkugel		0
5	English (en) Mothball		0
6	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		0
7	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		0
8	Malay (ms) Ubat gegat		0
9	Dutch (nl) Mottenbal		0
10	Simple English (simple) Mothball		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 "Mottenbal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mothball		68
2	Chinese (zh) 樟腦丸		19
3	Dutch (nl) Mottenbal		15
4	German (de) Mottenkugel		10
5	Spanish (es) Bola de naftalina		5
6	Korean (ko) 좀약		4
7	Malay (ms) Ubat gegat		4
8	Persian (fa) قرص ضد بید		3
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chhàu-oân		3
10	Catalan (ca) Bola de naftalina		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كرات النفثالين
ca	Catalan Bola de naftalina
de	German Mottenkugel
en	English Mothball
es	Spanish Bola de naftalina
fa	Persian قرص ضد بید
ko	Korean 좀약
ms	Malay Ubat gegat
nl	Dutch Mottenbal
simple	Simple English Mothball
zh	Chinese 樟腦丸
zhminnan	Min Nan Chhàu-oân

Best Rank

Dutch: #4579 10.2017

Global: #46922 02.2012

Best Rank

Dutch: #2626 02.2004

Global: #19120 06.2003

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