Compass (drawing tool)

Compass - drafting instrument for drawing arcs. Article "Compass (drawing tool)" in English Wikipedia has 46.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Compass (drawing tool)", its content was written by 168 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1409 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 241 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15558 in April 2013
• Global: #1926 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51486 in February 2018
• Global: #21686 in October 2014

There are 48 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	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		62.0197
2	Catalan (ca) Compàs (geometria)		49.9056
3	English (en) Compass (drawing tool)		46.5698
4	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		41.6204
5	Ukrainian (uk) Циркуль		37.6638
6	Polish (pl) Cyrkiel		35.4635
7	German (de) Zirkel		32.2606
8	Chinese (zh) 圆规		32.0641
9	Russian (ru) Циркуль		30.8913
10	Estonian (et) Sirkel		30.6606

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Compass (drawing tool)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Compass (drawing tool)		2 125 788
2	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		2 118 470
3	Japanese (ja) コンパス		468 118
4	Russian (ru) Циркуль		456 499
5	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		393 507
6	German (de) Zirkel		384 255
7	Italian (it) Compasso (strumento)		284 848
8	Portuguese (pt) Compasso (geometria)		249 101
9	Polish (pl) Cyrkiel		199 628
10	Arabic (ar) فرجار		164 771

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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 "Compass (drawing tool)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Compass (drawing tool)		6 357
2	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		1 981
3	Russian (ru) Циркуль		1 100
4	Japanese (ja) コンパス		1 080
5	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		972
6	German (de) Zirkel		692
7	Chinese (zh) 圆规		501
8	Italian (it) Compasso (strumento)		365
9	Arabic (ar) فرجار		304
10	Portuguese (pt) Compasso (geometria)		288

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Compass (drawing tool)		168
2	German (de) Zirkel		134
3	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		122
4	Italian (it) Compasso (strumento)		83
5	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		82
6	Dutch (nl) Passer (gereedschap)		73
7	Russian (ru) Циркуль		69
8	Polish (pl) Cyrkiel		48
9	Japanese (ja) コンパス		47
10	Portuguese (pt) Compasso (geometria)		39

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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 "Compass (drawing tool)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		2
2	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		1
3	Arabic (ar) فرجار		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Pərgar		0
5	Belarusian (be) Цыркуль		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пергел		0
7	Catalan (ca) Compàs (geometria)		0
8	Czech (cs) Kružítko		0
9	Danish (da) Passer		0
10	German (de) Zirkel		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 "Compass (drawing tool)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) コンパス		270
2	English (en) Compass (drawing tool)		241
3	French (fr) Compas (géométrie)		216
4	Swedish (sv) Passare (ritverktyg)		203
5	Chinese (zh) 圆规		200
6	German (de) Zirkel		184
7	Italian (it) Compasso (strumento)		181
8	Russian (ru) Циркуль		176
9	Spanish (es) Compás (instrumento)		129
10	Greek (el) Διαβήτης (όργανο)		115

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فرجار
az	Azerbaijani Pərgar
be	Belarusian Цыркуль
bg	Bulgarian Пергел
ca	Catalan Compàs (geometria)
cs	Czech Kružítko
da	Danish Passer
de	German Zirkel
el	Greek Διαβήτης (όργανο)
en	English Compass (drawing tool)
eo	Esperanto Cirkelo
es	Spanish Compás (instrumento)
et	Estonian Sirkel
eu	Basque Konpas (tresna)
fa	Persian پرگار
fi	Finnish Harppi
fr	French Compas (géométrie)
gl	Galician Compás (debuxo)
he	Hebrew מחוגה
hr	Croatian Šestar
hu	Hungarian Körző
hy	Armenian Կարկին
id	Indonesian Jangka
it	Italian Compasso (strumento)
ja	Japanese コンパス
ka	Georgian ფარგალი
kk	Kazakh Циркуль
ko	Korean 컴퍼스
la	Latin Circinus
nl	Dutch Passer (gereedschap)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Passar
no	Norwegian Passer
pl	Polish Cyrkiel
pt	Portuguese Compasso (geometria)
ro	Romanian Compas
ru	Russian Циркуль
sh	Serbo-Croatian Šestar
simple	Simple English Compass (drafting)
sk	Slovak Kružidlo
sl	Slovenian Šestilo
sr	Serbian Šestar
sv	Swedish Passare (ritverktyg)
ta	Tamil வட்டம் வரையும் கருவி
tr	Turkish Pergel
uk	Ukrainian Циркуль
uz	Uzbek Pargar
vi	Vietnamese Com-pa
zh	Chinese 圆规

Best Rank

English: #51486 02.2018

Global: #21686 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #15558 04.2013

Global: #1926 08.2008

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