Crossbow

Quality:

Crossbow - type of ranged weapon based on the bow. Article “Crossbow” in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 125 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7388^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Crossbow”, its content was written by 827 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2980 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7388^th place).

The article is cited 1149 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7398 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1427 in November 2002
• Global: #1791 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2860 in October 2013
• Global: #5064 in July 2011

There are 52 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, 2026 (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	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		99.5936
2	Catalan (ca) Ballesta		98.9705
3	English (en) Crossbow		96.2489
4	Chinese (zh) 弩		65.7452
5	German (de) Armbrust		65.3846
6	French (fr) Arbalète		59.079
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		51.4784
8	Korean (ko) 쇠뇌		47.8907
9	Hungarian (hu) Számszeríj		47.7433
10	Russian (ru) Арбалет		43.6116

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crossbow		8 847 419
2	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		2 028 644
3	Russian (ru) Арбалет		1 860 926
4	German (de) Armbrust		1 759 887
5	Spanish (es) Ballesta		1 268 681
6	Polish (pl) Kusza		818 873
7	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		706 719
8	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		675 270
9	Chinese (zh) 弩		658 949
10	French (fr) Arbalète		396 679

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crossbow		14 773
2	Russian (ru) Арбалет		3 218
3	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		3 200
4	German (de) Armbrust		2 499
5	Chinese (zh) 弩		2 008
6	French (fr) Arbalète		1 746
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		1 329
8	Polish (pl) Kusza		1 055
9	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		881
10	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		839

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Crossbow		827
2	German (de) Armbrust		284
3	French (fr) Arbalète		234
4	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		150
5	Russian (ru) Арбалет		129
6	Dutch (nl) Kruisboog		121
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		114
8	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		85
9	Polish (pl) Kusza		74
10	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		73

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		2
2	Catalan (ca) Ballesta		1
3	Greek (el) Βαλλίστρα		1
4	Galician (gl) Bésta		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Számszeríj		1
6	Dutch (nl) Kruisboog		1
7	Romanian (ro) Arbaletă		1
8	Arabic (ar) نشابية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qundaqlı yay-ox		0
10	Belarusian (be) Арбалет		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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