Retrograde and direct motion

Quality:

Retrograde motion - orbit or rotation of an astronomical body opposite that of its primary body. Article “Retrograde and direct motion” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Retrograde and direct motion”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6761 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #965 in November 2007
• Global: #7699 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2546 in April 2013
• Global: #9007 in August 2009

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	Tamil (ta) பின்னேகும், முன்னேறும் இயக்கம்		76.779
2	Turkish (tr) Geri ve ileri yönlü hareket		71.0943
3	English (en) Retrograde and prograde motion		67.8081
4	Chinese (zh) 順行和逆行		61.508
5	Spanish (es) Movimientos retrógrado y prógrado		51.9524
6	Portuguese (pt) Movimento prógrado e retrógrado		50.1997
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ретроградний рух		45.1589
8	Georgian (ka) რეტროგრადული და პროგრადული მოძრაობა		44.7893
9	Russian (ru) Ретроградное движение		38.8848
10	Lithuanian (lt) Atgalinis judėjimas		37.0874

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Retrograde and prograde motion		3 148 217
2	Russian (ru) Ретроградное движение		424 651
3	Italian (it) Moto retrogrado		295 460
4	Japanese (ja) 順行・逆行		281 357
5	German (de) Rechtläufig und rückläufig		224 984
6	Chinese (zh) 順行和逆行		168 595
7	French (fr) Mouvement prograde ou rétrograde		91 171
8	Hungarian (hu) Retrográd mozgás		76 387
9	Polish (pl) Ruch wsteczny		73 186
10	Persian (fa) حرکت مخالف‌گرد و موافق‌گرد		64 934

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) Retrograde and prograde motion		7 938
2	Japanese (ja) 順行・逆行		1 628
3	Russian (ru) Ретроградное движение		1 134
4	Simple English (simple) Retrograde and direct motion		802
5	Chinese (zh) 順行和逆行		705
6	German (de) Rechtläufig und rückläufig		681
7	Italian (it) Moto retrogrado		414
8	French (fr) Mouvement prograde ou rétrograde		395
9	Korean (ko) 역행 운동		224
10	Spanish (es) Movimientos retrógrado y prógrado		172

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Retrograde and prograde motion		195
2	Italian (it) Moto retrogrado		64
3	German (de) Rechtläufig und rückläufig		62
4	French (fr) Mouvement prograde ou rétrograde		55
5	Dutch (nl) Retrograad (astronomie)		32
6	Russian (ru) Ретроградное движение		29
7	Japanese (ja) 順行・逆行		25
8	Finnish (fi) Retrogradinen liike		21
9	Croatian (hr) Retrogradno gibanje		20
10	Swedish (sv) Retrograd rörelse		18

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	English (en) Retrograde and prograde motion		2
2	Chinese (zh) 順行和逆行		2
3	Russian (ru) Ретроградное движение		1
4	Arabic (ar) حركة تراجعية وتقدمية		0
5	Belarusian (be) Рух Сонца і планет па нябеснай сферы		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ретроградно движение		0
7	Catalan (ca) Moviment retrògrad i prògrad		0
8	Czech (cs) Retrográdní pohyb		0
9	German (de) Rechtläufig und rückläufig		0
10	Greek (el) Ανάδρομη κίνηση		0

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

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