Baton twirling

Baton twirling - light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling, and juggling in marching band and parade performances. Article “Baton twirling” in English Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.97 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Baton twirling”, its content was written by 180 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 625 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 237 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1097 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10958 in August 2008
• Global: #20934 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #198298 in October 2013
• Global: #127918 in February 2013

There are 14 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	Dutch (nl) Twirling (baton)		47.5617
2	English (en) Baton twirling		27.8706
3	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		22.792
4	Catalan (ca) Twirling baton		19.8513
5	Italian (it) Twirling		19.5353
6	French (fr) Twirling bâton		18.9051
7	Korean (ko) 배턴 트월링		12.4712
8	Portuguese (pt) Baliza de banda		11.4249
9	Norwegian (no) Drill (korpsdrill)		10.7722
10	Spanish (es) Twirling		8.4558

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baton twirling		727 883
2	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		495 887
3	French (fr) Twirling bâton		360 251
4	Italian (it) Twirling		147 629
5	Spanish (es) Twirling		98 644
6	German (de) Twirling		93 494
7	Dutch (nl) Twirling (baton)		67 067
8	Portuguese (pt) Baliza de banda		50 688
9	Norwegian (no) Drill (korpsdrill)		30 998
10	Czech (cs) Twirling		25 324

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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 "Baton twirling" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baton twirling		2 920
2	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		1 869
3	French (fr) Twirling bâton		1 160
4	Italian (it) Twirling		343
5	Spanish (es) Twirling		241
6	German (de) Twirling		229
7	Dutch (nl) Twirling (baton)		113
8	Czech (cs) Twirling		85
9	Norwegian (no) Drill (korpsdrill)		64
10	Portuguese (pt) Baliza de banda		57

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baton twirling		180
2	French (fr) Twirling bâton		126
3	German (de) Twirling		52
4	Spanish (es) Twirling		48
5	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		45
6	Italian (it) Twirling		43
7	Dutch (nl) Twirling (baton)		41
8	Norwegian (no) Drill (korpsdrill)		19
9	Catalan (ca) Twirling baton		18
10	Hebrew (he) סטאף		16

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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 "Baton twirling" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		1
2	Catalan (ca) Twirling baton		0
3	Czech (cs) Twirling		0
4	German (de) Twirling		0
5	English (en) Baton twirling		0
6	Spanish (es) Twirling		0
7	French (fr) Twirling bâton		0
8	Hebrew (he) סטאף		0
9	Italian (it) Twirling		0
10	Korean (ko) 배턴 트월링		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 "Baton twirling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) バトントワリング		601
2	English (en) Baton twirling		237
3	French (fr) Twirling bâton		92
4	Italian (it) Twirling		49
5	Catalan (ca) Twirling baton		29
6	German (de) Twirling		25
7	Norwegian (no) Drill (korpsdrill)		14
8	Korean (ko) 배턴 트월링		12
9	Spanish (es) Twirling		11
10	Dutch (nl) Twirling (baton)		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Twirling baton
cs	Czech Twirling
de	German Twirling
en	English Baton twirling
es	Spanish Twirling
fr	French Twirling bâton
he	Hebrew סטאף
it	Italian Twirling
ja	Japanese バトントワリング
ko	Korean 배턴 트월링
nl	Dutch Twirling (baton)
no	Norwegian Drill (korpsdrill)
pt	Portuguese Baliza de banda
sl	Slovenian Baton twirling

Best Rank

English: #198298 10.2013

Global: #127918 02.2013

Best Rank

English: #10958 08.2008

Global: #20934 07.2016

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