Backslash

Quality:

Backslash - typographical mark (glyph) used mainly in computing. Article “Backslash” in English Wikipedia has 46.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 11 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Backslash” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Backslash”, its content was written by 443 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1142 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 362 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2518 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1562 in January 2022
• Global: #9204 in January 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #401 in May 2013
• Global: #1251 in May 2013

There are 32 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, 2026 (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) Backslash		46.8727
2	Thai (th) แบ็กสแลช		30.1865
3	Chinese (zh) 反斜线		27.7647
4	Norwegian (no) Bakstrek		25.9398
5	Italian (it) Barra rovesciata		24.7865
6	Ukrainian (uk) Обернена скісна риска		24.7246
7	Persian (fa) بک‌اسلش		24.2872
8	Lithuanian (lt) Pasvirasis kairinis brūkšnys		22.7607
9	Esperanto (eo) Retroklino		22.6523
10	German (de) Backslash		21.2201

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backslash		11 508 282
2	German (de) Backslash		1 559 458
3	Spanish (es) Barra inversa		1 388 039
4	Russian (ru) Обратная косая черта		853 481
5	Japanese (ja) バックスラッシュ		825 531
6	French (fr) Barre oblique inversée		767 994
7	Dutch (nl) Backslash		654 294
8	Italian (it) Barra rovesciata		612 849
9	Portuguese (pt) Barra inversa		310 222
10	Korean (ko) 역슬래시		235 846

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) Backslash		24 828
2	Spanish (es) Barra inversa		4 260
3	German (de) Backslash		2 530
4	French (fr) Barre oblique inversée		1 685
5	Russian (ru) Обратная косая черта		1 553
6	Chinese (zh) 反斜线		929
7	Japanese (ja) バックスラッシュ		891
8	Portuguese (pt) Barra inversa		663
9	Italian (it) Barra rovesciata		607
10	Turkish (tr) Ters eğik çizgi		494

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backslash		443
2	German (de) Backslash		112
3	French (fr) Barre oblique inversée		76
4	Japanese (ja) バックスラッシュ		57
5	Russian (ru) Обратная косая черта		52
6	Dutch (nl) Backslash		46
7	Italian (it) Barra rovesciata		41
8	Korean (ko) 역슬래시		32
9	Spanish (es) Barra inversa		31
10	Hebrew (he) לוכסן שמאלי		27

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) Backslash		3
2	Catalan (ca) Barra obliqua inversa		1
3	Spanish (es) Barra inversa		1
4	Arabic (ar) مائلة معاكسة		0
5	Czech (cs) Zpětné lomítko		0
6	Danish (da) Omvendt skråstreg		0
7	German (de) Backslash		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Retroklino		0
9	Estonian (et) Kurakaldkriips		0
10	Basque (eu) Alderantzizko barra		0

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

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