String (Kleidung)

Quality:

Thong - garment generally worn as either underwear or as a swimsuit in some countries. Article “String (Kleidung)” in German Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.46 points.

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 “String (Kleidung)”, its content was written by 181 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1474 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2076 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #880 in September 2004
• Global: #7402 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2216 in July 2008
• Global: #2052 in June 2008

There are 19 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) Thong		79.9689
2	Russian (ru) Стринги		45.3288
3	Greek (el) Τάνγκα (ένδυμα)		44.0511
4	Turkish (tr) String		42.2244
5	Persian (fa) شورت بندی		37.5897
6	Hebrew (he) חוטיני		35.7624
7	Chinese (zh) 丁字褲		31.3897
8	Indonesian (id) Thong		29.6364
9	Arabic (ar) ثونغ		28.4588
10	German (de) String (Kleidung)		27.7955

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thong		15 455 192
2	German (de) String (Kleidung)		2 029 533
3	Russian (ru) Стринги		1 371 926
4	Italian (it) Perizoma		777 657
5	Persian (fa) شورت بندی		677 015
6	Japanese (ja) ソング (下着)		623 968
7	Dutch (nl) String (kleding)		469 021
8	Polish (pl) Stringi		463 622
9	Chinese (zh) 丁字褲		340 513
10	Hebrew (he) חוטיני		163 765

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) Thong		31 256
2	Persian (fa) شورت بندی		6 066
3	German (de) String (Kleidung)		3 919
4	Russian (ru) Стринги		3 801
5	Chinese (zh) 丁字褲		1 862
6	Italian (it) Perizoma		1 681
7	Japanese (ja) ソング (下着)		1 142
8	Polish (pl) Stringi		659
9	Dutch (nl) String (kleding)		627
10	Hebrew (he) חוטיני		582

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thong		715
2	German (de) String (Kleidung)		181
3	Russian (ru) Стринги		106
4	Italian (it) Perizoma		98
5	Dutch (nl) String (kleding)		63
6	Hebrew (he) חוטיני		60
7	Polish (pl) Stringi		57
8	Finnish (fi) Stringit		46
9	Chinese (zh) 丁字褲		32
10	Persian (fa) شورت بندی		25

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	Greek (el) Τάνγκα (ένδυμα)		1
2	English (en) Thong		1
3	Japanese (ja) ソング (下着)		1
4	Arabic (ar) ثونغ		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Прашки		0
6	German (de) String (Kleidung)		0
7	Persian (fa) شورت بندی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Stringit		0
9	Hebrew (he) חוטיני		0
10	Indonesian (id) Thong		0

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

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