Block and tackle

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Block and tackle

Quality:

Block and tackle - device consisting of two pulleys (or in a borderline case only one movable pulley); device multiplying force; machine used to lift heavy loads. Article “Block and tackle” in English Wikipedia has 51.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.72 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Block and tackle” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Block and tackle”, its content was written by 146 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 789 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1554 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #12506 in July 2003
  • Global: #10263 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #32701 in September 2014
  • Global: #27396 in November 2008

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 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Flaschenzug
67.2108
2English (en)
Block and tackle
51.718
3Russian (ru)
Полиспаст
37.5784
4Italian (it)
Paranco
33.1967
5Vietnamese (vi)
Pa lăng
28.5612
6Esperanto (eo)
Takelo
26.661
7Croatian (hr)
Koloturnik
22.5875
8Polish (pl)
Wielokrążek
21.5423
9Kazakh (kk)
Полиспаст
21.3202
10Spanish (es)
Polipasto
19.3015
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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 "Block and tackle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1German (de)
Flaschenzug
2 313 890
2English (en)
Block and tackle
2 195 789
3Spanish (es)
Polipasto
1 776 287
4Russian (ru)
Полиспаст
750 297
5French (fr)
Palan
579 073
6Polish (pl)
Wielokrążek
270 249
7Italian (it)
Paranco
133 612
8Bulgarian (bg)
Полиспаст
74 997
9Norwegian (no)
Talje
57 734
10Ukrainian (uk)
Поліспаст
50 249
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Block and tackle" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Block and tackle
8 660
2German (de)
Flaschenzug
4 115
3Russian (ru)
Полиспаст
2 076
4Spanish (es)
Polipasto
1 566
5French (fr)
Palan
1 440
6Italian (it)
Paranco
599
7Polish (pl)
Wielokrążek
471
8Bulgarian (bg)
Полиспаст
187
9Vietnamese (vi)
Pa lăng
161
10Norwegian (no)
Talje
126
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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 "Block and tackle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Flaschenzug
309
2English (en)
Block and tackle
146
3Spanish (es)
Polipasto
92
4French (fr)
Palan
50
5Russian (ru)
Полиспаст
50
6Polish (pl)
Wielokrążek
21
7Ukrainian (uk)
Поліспаст
20
8Italian (it)
Paranco
17
9Catalan (ca)
Polispast
15
10Esperanto (eo)
Takelo
14
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Block and tackle" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Flaschenzug
1
2English (en)
Block and tackle
1
3Arabic (ar)
بكارة (آلة)
0
4Belarusian (be)
Паліспаст
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Полиспаст
0
6Catalan (ca)
Polispast
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Takelo
0
8Spanish (es)
Polipasto
0
9French (fr)
Palan
0
10Galician (gl)
Polispasto
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 "Block and tackle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Palan
691
2German (de)
Flaschenzug
240
3English (en)
Block and tackle
157
4Russian (ru)
Полиспаст
127
5Ukrainian (uk)
Поліспаст
66
6Spanish (es)
Polipasto
57
7Italian (it)
Paranco
46
8Polish (pl)
Wielokrążek
35
9Norwegian (no)
Talje
29
10Croatian (hr)
Koloturnik
19
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بكارة (آلة)
beBelarusian
Паліспаст
bgBulgarian
Полиспаст
caCatalan
Polispast
deGerman
Flaschenzug
enEnglish
Block and tackle
eoEsperanto
Takelo
esSpanish
Polipasto
frFrench
Palan
glGalician
Polispasto
hrCroatian
Koloturnik
itItalian
Paranco
kkKazakh
Полиспаст
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Talje
noNorwegian
Talje
plPolish
Wielokrążek
ptPortuguese
Bloco de polias
ruRussian
Полиспаст
shSerbo-Croatian
Koloturnik
ukUkrainian
Поліспаст
viVietnamese
Pa lăng

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#32701
09.2014
Global:
#27396
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#12506
07.2003
Global:
#10263
02.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Block and tackle from Wikipedia articles about Archimedes, Pulley, Armin Meiwes, Sodder children disappearance and Wire rope hoist. Whereas reading the article about Block and tackle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pulley, Block, Differential pulley, Wikipedia article and Mechanical advantage.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

fr: Palan
no: Talje
eo: Takelo
nn: Talje

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