Metan

Quality:

Methane - simplest organic molecule with one carbon atom and four hydrogen. Article “Metan” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 13.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 433^rd most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 2382^nd most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2857^th most popular in all topics.

The 2980^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 6043^rd most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8687^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Metan”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (2382^nd place) and edited by 4467 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2980^th place).

The article is cited 86 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 23868 times in all languages (6881^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #40 in March 2016
• Global: #352 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #91 in October 2020
• Global: #1663 in November 2009

There are 54 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	German (de) Methan		100
2	Greek (el) Μεθάνιο		98.8885
3	French (fr) Méthane		88.4882
4	English (en) Methane		88.1302
5	Croatian (hr) Metan		78.0098
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Methane		68.2318
7	Indonesian (id) Metana		65.616
8	Polish (pl) Metan		63.6145
9	Chinese (zh) 甲烷		54.0081
10	Estonian (et) Metaan		51.8215

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Methane		16 498 941
2	Spanish (es) Metano		6 936 849
3	Russian (ru) Метан		4 250 437
4	German (de) Methan		4 144 494
5	Italian (it) Metano		2 350 817
6	Japanese (ja) メタン		2 218 549
7	French (fr) Méthane		2 198 451
8	Portuguese (pt) Metano		1 857 339
9	Polish (pl) Metan		1 817 011
10	Chinese (zh) 甲烷		1 043 289

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) Methane		24 179
2	Russian (ru) Метан		7 662
3	German (de) Methan		5 315
4	Spanish (es) Metano		4 855
5	Japanese (ja) メタン		4 678
6	French (fr) Méthane		3 787
7	Chinese (zh) 甲烷		3 175
8	Italian (it) Metano		2 062
9	Polish (pl) Metan		1 729
10	Korean (ko) 메테인		1 215

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Methane		1 059
2	German (de) Methan		496
3	French (fr) Méthane		300
4	Italian (it) Metano		209
5	Russian (ru) Метан		181
6	Spanish (es) Metano		170
7	Dutch (nl) Methaan		126
8	Japanese (ja) メタン		111
9	Portuguese (pt) Metano		103
10	Polish (pl) Metan		102

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	German (de) Methan		6
2	French (fr) Méthane		3
3	English (en) Methane		2
4	Spanish (es) Metano		2
5	Turkish (tr) Metan		2
6	Arabic (ar) ميثان		1
7	Catalan (ca) Metà		1
8	Czech (cs) Methan		1
9	Hindi (hi) मिथेन		1
10	Italian (it) Metano		1

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

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