Hanky code

Quality:

Handkerchief code - use of color-coded handkerchiefs or bandanas in the gay and BDSM communities. Article "Hanky code" in Czech Wikipedia has 17.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Hanky code", its content was written by 17 registered users of Czech Wikipedia and edited by 528 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 1304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Czech): #773 in May 2023
• Global: #1391 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Czech): #10954 in July 2010
• Global: #6942 in July 2022

There are 17 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) Hanky Code		56.3682
2	Chinese (zh) 手帕准则		45.9999
3	English (en) Handkerchief code		42.0393
4	Spanish (es) Código de pañuelos		32.5992
5	Catalan (ca) Codi de mocadors		30.324
6	Hebrew (he) קוד המטפחת		28.6188
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ханкі-код		26.3652
8	Italian (it) Codice Hanky		20.0756
9	Arabic (ar) شيفرة المنديل		18.4661
10	Czech (cs) Hanky code		17.2146

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Handkerchief code		8 703 796
2	German (de) Hanky Code		1 401 157
3	Spanish (es) Código de pañuelos		671 723
4	Russian (ru) Ханки-код		595 020
5	French (fr) Code foulard		196 351
6	Dutch (nl) Hanky code		142 292
7	Italian (it) Codice Hanky		94 505
8	Chinese (zh) 手帕准则		82 599
9	Persian (fa) دستمال رمزدار		74 441
10	Czech (cs) Hanky code		58 255

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) Handkerchief code		55 720
2	German (de) Hanky Code		6 161
3	Russian (ru) Ханки-код		3 854
4	Spanish (es) Código de pañuelos		3 021
5	French (fr) Code foulard		2 438
6	Dutch (nl) Hanky code		1 122
7	Persian (fa) دستمال رمزدار		450
8	Czech (cs) Hanky code		311
9	Italian (it) Codice Hanky		275
10	Arabic (ar) شيفرة المنديل		266

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handkerchief code		269
2	German (de) Hanky Code		102
3	Russian (ru) Ханки-код		24
4	Spanish (es) Código de pañuelos		19
5	Czech (cs) Hanky code		17
6	French (fr) Code foulard		17
7	Chinese (zh) 手帕准则		16
8	Danish (da) Tørklædekode		12
9	Italian (it) Codice Hanky		12
10	Dutch (nl) Hanky code		11

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) Handkerchief code		5
2	Spanish (es) Código de pañuelos		2
3	French (fr) Code foulard		1
4	Arabic (ar) شيفرة المنديل		0
5	Catalan (ca) Codi de mocadors		0
6	Czech (cs) Hanky code		0
7	Danish (da) Tørklædekode		0
8	German (de) Hanky Code		0
9	Greek (el) Κώδικας του μαντιλιού		0
10	Persian (fa) دستمال رمزدار		0

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

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