Backstay

Backstay - piece of standing rigging on a sailing vessel. Article “Backstay” in English Wikipedia has 24.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Backstay”, its content was written by 53 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 181 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1324 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #34262 in October 2003
• Global: #42430 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #319159 in April 2009
• Global: #309364 in June 2010

There are 13 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	Catalan (ca) Estai de popa		27.0863
2	English (en) Backstay		24.5465
3	Turkish (tr) Kıç istralya		23.2821
4	Swedish (sv) Akterstag		22.7416
5	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		14.8572
6	Italian (it) Paterazzo		13.3099
7	Spanish (es) Brandal (náutica)		12.8073
8	Norwegian (no) Akterstag		12.2698
9	Indonesian (id) Tahan turut		6.0777
10	French (fr) Pataras		4.611

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backstay		199 332
2	French (fr) Pataras		96 606
3	German (de) Achterstag		58 565
4	Italian (it) Paterazzo		49 754
5	Polish (pl) Achtersztag		47 080
6	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		24 319
7	Swedish (sv) Akterstag		10 999
8	Norwegian (no) Akterstag		6 632
9	Spanish (es) Brandal (náutica)		2 661
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ахтерштаг		1 549

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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 "Backstay" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backstay		1 017
2	French (fr) Pataras		400
3	German (de) Achterstag		245
4	Italian (it) Paterazzo		230
5	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		123
6	Polish (pl) Achtersztag		94
7	Spanish (es) Brandal (náutica)		45
8	Indonesian (id) Tahan turut		25
9	Swedish (sv) Akterstag		24
10	Turkish (tr) Kıç istralya		22

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backstay		53
2	French (fr) Pataras		34
3	German (de) Achterstag		25
4	Polish (pl) Achtersztag		16
5	Italian (it) Paterazzo		15
6	Norwegian (no) Akterstag		13
7	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		11
8	Swedish (sv) Akterstag		8
9	Spanish (es) Brandal (náutica)		5
10	Turkish (tr) Kıç istralya		5

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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 "Backstay" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Estai de popa		0
2	German (de) Achterstag		0
3	English (en) Backstay		0
4	Spanish (es) Brandal (náutica)		0
5	French (fr) Pataras		0
6	Indonesian (id) Tahan turut		0
7	Italian (it) Paterazzo		0
8	Norwegian (no) Akterstag		0
9	Polish (pl) Achtersztag		0
10	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		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 "Backstay" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Pataras		586
2	English (en) Backstay		181
3	Catalan (ca) Estai de popa		133
4	Ukrainian (uk) Ахтерштаг		129
5	Russian (ru) Ахтерштаг		86
6	Polish (pl) Achtersztag		77
7	Swedish (sv) Akterstag		44
8	Italian (it) Paterazzo		33
9	German (de) Achterstag		28
10	Turkish (tr) Kıç istralya		14

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Estai de popa
de	German Achterstag
en	English Backstay
es	Spanish Brandal (náutica)
fr	French Pataras
id	Indonesian Tahan turut
it	Italian Paterazzo
no	Norwegian Akterstag
pl	Polish Achtersztag
ru	Russian Ахтерштаг
sv	Swedish Akterstag
tr	Turkish Kıç istralya
uk	Ukrainian Ахтерштаг

Best Rank

English: #319159 04.2009

Global: #309364 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #34262 10.2003

Global: #42430 05.2003

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