Beacon

Quality:

Beacon - marker to attract attention (used for navigation, or in war as a signalling device, or as a signally device for natural disaster like fire). Article "Beacon" in English Wikipedia has 50 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 22 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In October 2023 the article "Beacon" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Beacon", its content was written by 191 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 472 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1429 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2814 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #233 in May 2001
  • Global: #248 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #33048 in October 2013
  • Global: #37287 in March 2017

There are 21 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 November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Beacon
50.0159
2Dutch (nl)
Baken
32.2578
3German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
28.0626
4Armenian (hy)
Խութանշան
27.7203
5Hebrew (he)
משואה (איתות)
23.8226
6Arabic (ar)
مرشد لاسلكي
21.8934
7Swedish (sv)
Signalanordning
18.812
8Kazakh (kk)
Бакен
18.2604
9Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
18.1988
10Spanish (es)
Baliza
15.6514
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Beacon" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Beacon
2 795 479
2Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
843 901
3Spanish (es)
Baliza
469 536
4Russian (ru)
Бакен
249 816
5German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
146 912
6Dutch (nl)
Baken
83 824
7Korean (ko)
비콘
82 302
8Hebrew (he)
משואה (איתות)
32 914
9Indonesian (id)
Sinyal pandu
15 628
10French (fr)
Balise (transport)
11 707
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in October 2023

The most popular language versions of the article "Beacon" in October 2023
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Beacon
5 811
2Russian (ru)
Бакен
1 616
3Spanish (es)
Baliza
1 422
4Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
1 265
5German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
920
6Korean (ko)
비콘
396
7Kazakh (kk)
Бакен
328
8Dutch (nl)
Baken
278
9Catalan (ca)
Balisa
167
10Arabic (ar)
مرشد لاسلكي
162
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Beacon" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Beacon
191
2German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
64
3Dutch (nl)
Baken
42
4Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
36
5Spanish (es)
Baliza
33
6Hebrew (he)
משואה (איתות)
32
7Russian (ru)
Бакен
31
8Catalan (ca)
Balisa
7
9Basque (eu)
Baliza
5
10Armenian (hy)
Խութանշան
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in October 2023

Language versions of the article "Beacon" with the highest AI in October 2023
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
2
2Russian (ru)
Бакен
2
3English (en)
Beacon
1
4Arabic (ar)
مرشد لاسلكي
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Baken
0
6Belarusian (be)
Бакен
0
7Catalan (ca)
Balisa
0
8German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
0
9Spanish (es)
Baliza
0
10Basque (eu)
Baliza
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Beacon" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Beacon
1 429
2Japanese (ja)
ビーコン
235
3Basque (eu)
Baliza
153
4German (de)
Bake (Seezeichen)
146
5Korean (ko)
비콘
145
6Dutch (nl)
Baken
143
7Spanish (es)
Baliza
138
8Arabic (ar)
مرشد لاسلكي
137
9Azerbaijani (az)
Baken
77
10Russian (ru)
Бакен
50
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
English:
Global:
Popularity in October 2023:
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Global:
Popularity in all years:
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Global:
Authors in October 2023:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مرشد لاسلكي
azAzerbaijani
Baken
beBelarusian
Бакен
caCatalan
Balisa
deGerman
Bake (Seezeichen)
enEnglish
Beacon
esSpanish
Baliza
euBasque
Baliza
frFrench
Balise (transport)
heHebrew
משואה (איתות)
hiHindi
ध्यानाकर्षक बत्ती
hyArmenian
Խութանշան
idIndonesian
Sinyal pandu
jaJapanese
ビーコン
kkKazakh
Бакен
koKorean
비콘
nlDutch
Baken
ruRussian
Бакен
svSwedish
Signalanordning
ukUkrainian
Бакен
uzUzbek
Baken

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#33048
10.2013
Global:
#37287
03.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#233
05.2001
Global:
#248
05.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Beacon from Wikipedia articles about Bake, Lighthouse, Telecommunication, Sea mark and Buoy. Whereas reading the article about Beacon people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Beacon, Electric beacon, Lighthouse, Aerodrome beacon and Spar buoy.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Beacon
es: Baliza
nl: Baken
ko: 비콘
ca: Balisa
eu: Baliza
az: Baken
uz: Baken

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About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from November, 2023. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from October 2023 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information