Balista

Balista - Roman praetorian prefect and usurper (died c.261). Article “Balista” in English Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balista”, its content was written by 52 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 84 times in English Wikipedia and cited 368 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #59146 in April 2012
• Global: #31926 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #420155 in February 2008
• Global: #389951 in December 2008

There are 16 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	Greek (el) Μπαλίστα		30.6681
2	English (en) Balista		29.8814
3	Portuguese (pt) Balista (usurpador)		29.7447
4	Indonesian (id) Balista		28.883
5	Spanish (es) Balista (usurpador)		27.9826
6	Latin (la) Ballista (praefectus praetorio)		24.8929
7	Finnish (fi) Ballista (pretoriaaniprefekti)		20.1912
8	Italian (it) Ballista		15.7031
9	German (de) Ballista		12.7399
10	Dutch (nl) Balista		12.1659

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balista		150 948
2	German (de) Ballista		39 153
3	Italian (it) Ballista		33 953
4	French (fr) Balliste		15 918
5	Russian (ru) Баллиста (узурпатор)		11 756
6	Japanese (ja) バッリスタ		8 614
7	Portuguese (pt) Balista (usurpador)		4 652
8	Finnish (fi) Ballista (pretoriaaniprefekti)		3 407
9	Catalan (ca) Balista		3 291
10	Bulgarian (bg) Балиста (узурпатор)		2 297

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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 "Balista" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balista		606
2	Italian (it) Ballista		70
3	German (de) Ballista		63
4	French (fr) Balliste		51
5	Japanese (ja) バッリスタ		28
6	Portuguese (pt) Balista (usurpador)		26
7	Russian (ru) Баллиста (узурпатор)		25
8	Spanish (es) Balista (usurpador)		19
9	Catalan (ca) Balista		12
10	Indonesian (id) Balista		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balista		52
2	Italian (it) Ballista		44
3	German (de) Ballista		40
4	French (fr) Balliste		30
5	Latin (la) Ballista (praefectus praetorio)		14
6	Japanese (ja) バッリスタ		10
7	Russian (ru) Баллиста (узурпатор)		10
8	Bulgarian (bg) Балиста (узурпатор)		8
9	Catalan (ca) Balista		8
10	Finnish (fi) Ballista (pretoriaaniprefekti)		7

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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 "Balista" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Балиста (узурпатор)		0
2	Catalan (ca) Balista		0
3	German (de) Ballista		0
4	Greek (el) Μπαλίστα		0
5	English (en) Balista		0
6	Spanish (es) Balista (usurpador)		0
7	Finnish (fi) Ballista (pretoriaaniprefekti)		0
8	French (fr) Balliste		0
9	Indonesian (id) Balista		0
10	Italian (it) Ballista		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 "Balista" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Ballista		139
2	English (en) Balista		84
3	German (de) Ballista		20
4	Catalan (ca) Balista		18
5	Portuguese (pt) Balista (usurpador)		16
6	Bulgarian (bg) Балиста (узурпатор)		11
7	Greek (el) Μπαλίστα		11
8	French (fr) Balliste		11
9	Latin (la) Ballista (praefectus praetorio)		11
10	Russian (ru) Баллиста (узурпатор)		11

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Балиста (узурпатор)
ca	Catalan Balista
de	German Ballista
el	Greek Μπαλίστα
en	English Balista
es	Spanish Balista (usurpador)
fi	Finnish Ballista (pretoriaaniprefekti)
fr	French Balliste
id	Indonesian Balista
it	Italian Ballista
ja	Japanese バッリスタ
la	Latin Ballista (praefectus praetorio)
nl	Dutch Balista
pt	Portuguese Balista (usurpador)
ru	Russian Баллиста (узурпатор)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Balista (uzurpator)

Best Rank

English: #420155 02.2008

Global: #389951 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #59146 04.2012

Global: #31926 07.2011

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