Bold (decoy)

Bold - Device used by Nazi Germany to distract Allied sonar operators. Article “Bold (decoy)” in English Wikipedia has 13 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bold (decoy)”, its content was written by 22 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 66 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 143 times in English Wikipedia and cited 163 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #139783 in July 2011
• Global: #65997 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #96757 in July 2020
• Global: #158257 in July 2020

There are 5 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	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		17.4385
2	English (en) Bold (decoy)		12.9697
3	Russian (ru) Больд		10.6506
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		3.1646
5	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		1.938

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Bold (decoy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bold (decoy)		198 423
2	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		103 150
3	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		7 348
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		1 620
5	Russian (ru) Больд		1 214

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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 "Bold (decoy)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bold (decoy)		1 454
2	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		527
3	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		62
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		45
5	Russian (ru) Больд		28

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		32
2	English (en) Bold (decoy)		22
3	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		8
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		3
5	Russian (ru) Больд		1

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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 "Bold (decoy)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		0
2	English (en) Bold (decoy)		0
3	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		0
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		0
5	Russian (ru) Больд		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 "Bold (decoy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bold (decoy)		143
2	German (de) Bold (Täuschkörper)		11
3	French (fr) Pillenwerfer		4
4	Japanese (ja) ボールド (デコイ)		4
5	Russian (ru) Больд		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Bold (Täuschkörper)
en	English Bold (decoy)
fr	French Pillenwerfer
ja	Japanese ボールド (デコイ)
ru	Russian Больд

Best Rank

English: #96757 07.2020

Global: #158257 07.2020

Best Rank

English: #139783 07.2011

Global: #65997 10.2004

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