Eight Banners

Eight Banners - men grouped by blood, marriage, clan, or place of residence established by Nurhaci, in early 17th century, unifying fragmented Jurchen people into organized all Manchu families, functioned as armies in wars. Article “Eight Banners” in English Wikipedia has 84.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 89 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.46 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Eight Banners” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Eight Banners”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 621 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 602 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3529 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3517 in March 2003
• Global: #6898 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #86914 in May 2025
• Global: #17849 in December 2017

There are 23 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	Chinese (zh) 八旗		97.9601
2	Vietnamese (vi) Bát kỳ		89.5744
3	English (en) Eight Banners		84.678
4	Portuguese (pt) Oito Estandartes		81.6959
5	Korean (ko) 팔기제		77.4093
6	Uzbek (uz) Sakkiz bayroqlar		77.2522
7	Spanish (es) Ocho Banderas		76.228
8	Slovenian (sl) Osem praporov		71.9012
9	French (fr) Huit Bannières		40.2906
10	Italian (it) Otto Bandiere		38.3052

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Eight Banners" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 八旗		2 044 297
2	English (en) Eight Banners		1 430 658
3	Japanese (ja) 八旗		585 560
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bát kỳ		391 382
5	Korean (ko) 팔기제		127 320
6	Russian (ru) Восьмизнамённая армия		106 450
7	German (de) Acht Banner		89 693
8	Thai (th) แปดกองธง		49 079
9	French (fr) Huit Bannières		45 457
10	Polish (pl) Osiem Chorągwi		43 716

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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 "Eight Banners" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eight Banners		11 814
2	Chinese (zh) 八旗		9 929
3	Japanese (ja) 八旗		3 954
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bát kỳ		1 990
5	Russian (ru) Восьмизнамённая армия		642
6	Korean (ko) 팔기제		615
7	German (de) Acht Banner		368
8	Thai (th) แปดกองธง		358
9	French (fr) Huit Bannières		220
10	Spanish (es) Ocho Banderas		214

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eight Banners		153
2	Chinese (zh) 八旗		136
3	Japanese (ja) 八旗		61
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bát kỳ		48
5	German (de) Acht Banner		43
6	French (fr) Huit Bannières		30
7	Korean (ko) 팔기제		27
8	Russian (ru) Восьмизнамённая армия		22
9	Norwegian (no) De åtte banner		20
10	Dutch (nl) Vendelsysteem		13

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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 "Eight Banners" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Ocho Banderas		3
2	English (en) Eight Banners		2
3	Thai (th) แปดกองธง		1
4	Chinese (zh) 八旗		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Осем знамена		0
6	Czech (cs) Osm korouhví		0
7	German (de) Acht Banner		0
8	French (fr) Huit Bannières		0
9	Indonesian (id) Delapan Panji		0
10	Italian (it) Otto Bandiere		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 "Eight Banners" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 八旗		983
2	English (en) Eight Banners		602
3	Japanese (ja) 八旗		383
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bát kỳ		382
5	Korean (ko) 팔기제		280
6	French (fr) Huit Bannières		195
7	Indonesian (id) Delapan Panji		137
8	Russian (ru) Восьмизнамённая армия		137
9	Portuguese (pt) Oito Estandartes		74
10	Spanish (es) Ocho Banderas		64

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Осем знамена
cs	Czech Osm korouhví
de	German Acht Banner
en	English Eight Banners
es	Spanish Ocho Banderas
fr	French Huit Bannières
id	Indonesian Delapan Panji
it	Italian Otto Bandiere
ja	Japanese 八旗
ko	Korean 팔기제
nl	Dutch Vendelsysteem
no	Norwegian De åtte banner
pl	Polish Osiem Chorągwi
pt	Portuguese Oito Estandartes
ru	Russian Восьмизнамённая армия
sl	Slovenian Osem praporov
sv	Swedish Åtta fänikorna
th	Thai แปดกองธง
tr	Turkish Sekiz Sancak
uz	Uzbek Sakkiz bayroqlar
vi	Vietnamese Bát kỳ
zh	Chinese 八旗
zhminnan	Min Nan Pat-kî

Best Rank

English: #86914 05.2025

Global: #17849 12.2017

Best Rank

English: #3517 03.2003

Global: #6898 03.2003

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