Butterfly sword

Butterfly sword - short single-edged blade originating from southern China in the 19th century. Article “Butterfly sword” in English Wikipedia has 17.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.9 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Butterfly sword”, its content was written by 100 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 90 times in English Wikipedia and cited 423 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #48966 in August 2005
• Global: #59603 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #67043 in January 2008
• Global: #97025 in January 2008

There are 12 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) Schmetterlingsschwert		38.5321
2	Swedish (sv) Fjärilssvärd		24.1806
3	English (en) Butterfly sword		17.1809
4	French (fr) Épée papillon		16.2315
5	Polish (pl) Hu die dao		15.0631
6	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		13.3891
7	Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶雙刀		3.5243
8	Indonesian (id) Pedang Kupu-kupu		3.2253
9	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		3.214
10	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		2.4133

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Butterfly sword		1 422 113
2	French (fr) Épée papillon		127 174
3	Japanese (ja) 胡蝶刀		85 779
4	German (de) Schmetterlingsschwert		72 591
5	Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶雙刀		43 753
6	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		33 366
7	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		32 821
8	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		17 288
9	Czech (cs) Motýlí meče		14 342
10	Indonesian (id) Pedang Kupu-kupu		5 436

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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 "Butterfly sword" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Butterfly sword		3 533
2	German (de) Schmetterlingsschwert		254
3	Japanese (ja) 胡蝶刀		175
4	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		140
5	Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶雙刀		129
6	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		69
7	French (fr) Épée papillon		62
8	Polish (pl) Hu die dao		62
9	Czech (cs) Motýlí meče		33
10	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		31

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Butterfly sword		100
2	French (fr) Épée papillon		39
3	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		17
4	German (de) Schmetterlingsschwert		13
5	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		13
6	Polish (pl) Hu die dao		12
7	Czech (cs) Motýlí meče		10
8	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		8
9	Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶雙刀		6
10	Japanese (ja) 胡蝶刀		4

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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 "Butterfly sword" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Motýlí meče		0
2	German (de) Schmetterlingsschwert		0
3	English (en) Butterfly sword		0
4	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		0
5	French (fr) Épée papillon		0
6	Indonesian (id) Pedang Kupu-kupu		0
7	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		0
8	Japanese (ja) 胡蝶刀		0
9	Polish (pl) Hu die dao		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		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 "Butterfly sword" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Polish (pl) Hu die dao		197
2	English (en) Butterfly sword		90
3	Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶雙刀		74
4	Italian (it) Spada farfalla		37
5	German (de) Schmetterlingsschwert		9
6	Spanish (es) Hu die dao		3
7	Japanese (ja) 胡蝶刀		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Espada borboleta		3
9	Swedish (sv) Fjärilssvärd		3
10	French (fr) Épée papillon		2

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Motýlí meče
de	German Schmetterlingsschwert
en	English Butterfly sword
es	Spanish Hu die dao
fr	French Épée papillon
id	Indonesian Pedang Kupu-kupu
it	Italian Spada farfalla
ja	Japanese 胡蝶刀
pl	Polish Hu die dao
pt	Portuguese Espada borboleta
sv	Swedish Fjärilssvärd
zh	Chinese 蝴蝶雙刀

Best Rank

English: #67043 01.2008

Global: #97025 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #48966 08.2005

Global: #59603 08.2014

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