Anchor windlass

Anchor windlass - machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat. Article “Anchor windlass” in English Wikipedia has 21.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.15 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Anchor windlass”, its content was written by 49 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 96 times in English Wikipedia and cited 525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #76457 in May 2008
• Global: #41789 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #92999 in January 2020
• Global: #153791 in January 2020

There are 18 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	French (fr) Guindeau		29.6438
2	Catalan (ca) Molinet d'àncora		26.69
3	Russian (ru) Брашпиль		24.822
4	Bulgarian (bg) Брашпил		23.8637
5	Belarusian (be) Брашпіль		23.1273
6	Spanish (es) Molinete de ancla		22.3653
7	English (en) Anchor windlass		21.7613
8	Arabic (ar) تلاعة المرساة		21.1418
9	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		11.5431
10	German (de) Ankerwinde		9.8666

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Anchor windlass" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anchor windlass		642 511
2	French (fr) Guindeau		130 681
3	Russian (ru) Брашпиль		111 390
4	German (de) Ankerwinde		81 617
5	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		37 298
6	Polish (pl) Winda kotwiczna		30 358
7	Swedish (sv) Ankarspel		11 981
8	Norwegian (no) Ankerspill		8 597
9	Ukrainian (uk) Брашпиль		5 638
10	Bulgarian (bg) Брашпил		4 435

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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 "Anchor windlass" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anchor windlass		1 491
2	French (fr) Guindeau		381
3	Russian (ru) Брашпиль		317
4	German (de) Ankerwinde		181
5	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		72
6	Polish (pl) Winda kotwiczna		62
7	Ukrainian (uk) Брашпиль		44
8	Bulgarian (bg) Брашпил		34
9	Spanish (es) Molinete de ancla		30
10	Swedish (sv) Ankarspel		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Anchor windlass		49
2	German (de) Ankerwinde		37
3	French (fr) Guindeau		27
4	Norwegian (no) Ankerspill		18
5	Russian (ru) Брашпиль		14
6	Swedish (sv) Ankarspel		12
7	Ukrainian (uk) Брашпиль		10
8	Esperanto (eo) Vindaso		8
9	Polish (pl) Winda kotwiczna		7
10	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		6

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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 "Anchor windlass" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تلاعة المرساة		0
2	Belarusian (be) Брашпіль		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Брашпил		0
4	Catalan (ca) Molinet d'àncora		0
5	German (de) Ankerwinde		0
6	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		0
7	English (en) Anchor windlass		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Vindaso		0
9	Spanish (es) Molinete de ancla		0
10	French (fr) Guindeau		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 "Anchor windlass" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Anchor windlass		96
2	Russian (ru) Брашпиль		87
3	Swedish (sv) Ankarspel		87
4	French (fr) Guindeau		59
5	German (de) Ankerwinde		49
6	Polish (pl) Winda kotwiczna		36
7	Arabic (ar) تلاعة المرساة		33
8	Ukrainian (uk) Брашпиль		24
9	Greek (el) Βαρούλκο αγκύρας		14
10	Belarusian (be) Брашпіль		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تلاعة المرساة
be	Belarusian Брашпіль
bg	Bulgarian Брашпил
ca	Catalan Molinet d'àncora
de	German Ankerwinde
el	Greek Βαρούλκο αγκύρας
en	English Anchor windlass
eo	Esperanto Vindaso
es	Spanish Molinete de ancla
fr	French Guindeau
id	Indonesian Pengerek jangkar
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Ankerspel
no	Norwegian Ankerspill
pl	Polish Winda kotwiczna
ru	Russian Брашпиль
sv	Swedish Ankarspel
uk	Ukrainian Брашпиль
uz	Uzbek Brashpil

Best Rank

English: #92999 01.2020

Global: #153791 01.2020

Best Rank

English: #76457 05.2008

Global: #41789 03.2004

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