Balk (Baseball)

Balk - Illegal pitching action in baseball. Article “Balk (Baseball)” in German Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balk (Baseball)”, its content was written by 6 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 339 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in German Wikipedia and cited 8138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #879 in May 2014
• Global: #14807 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #70475 in July 2022
• Global: #11993 in August 2015

There are 9 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) Balk		39.6838
2	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		36.6974
3	Japanese (ja) ボーク		34.8604
4	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		26.2529
5	Italian (it) Balk		23.6842
6	Korean (ko) 보크		16.4536
7	French (fr) Feinte illégale		12.1926
8	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		6.388
9	Simple English (simple) Balk		0.5471

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Balk (Baseball)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balk		3 352 329
2	Japanese (ja) ボーク		2 020 237
3	Korean (ko) 보크		69 943
4	French (fr) Feinte illégale		24 877
5	Italian (it) Balk		23 922
6	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		14 526
7	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		13 878
8	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		3 625
9	Simple English (simple) Balk		3 213

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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 "Balk (Baseball)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balk		9 458
2	Japanese (ja) ボーク		3 811
3	Korean (ko) 보크		1 102
4	French (fr) Feinte illégale		183
5	Simple English (simple) Balk		163
6	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		143
7	Italian (it) Balk		68
8	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		58
9	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		20

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balk		171
2	Japanese (ja) ボーク		104
3	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		16
4	Italian (it) Balk		14
5	French (fr) Feinte illégale		11
6	Korean (ko) 보크		11
7	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		6
8	Simple English (simple) Balk		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		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 "Balk (Baseball)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balk		2
2	Japanese (ja) ボーク		1
3	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		0
4	French (fr) Feinte illégale		0
5	Italian (it) Balk		0
6	Korean (ko) 보크		0
7	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		0
9	Simple English (simple) Balk		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 "Balk (Baseball)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ボーク		6 867
2	Korean (ko) 보크		832
3	English (en) Balk		356
4	French (fr) Feinte illégale		70
5	Italian (it) Balk		10
6	German (de) Balk (Baseball)		2
7	Dutch (nl) Schijn (honkbal)		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Finta ilegal		0
9	Simple English (simple) Balk		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Balk (Baseball)
en	English Balk
fr	French Feinte illégale
it	Italian Balk
ja	Japanese ボーク
ko	Korean 보크
nl	Dutch Schijn (honkbal)
pt	Portuguese Finta ilegal
simple	Simple English Balk

Best Rank

German: #70475 07.2022

Global: #11993 08.2015

Best Rank

German: #879 05.2014

Global: #14807 05.2014

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