Foot binding

Quality:

Foot binding - Chinese custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape and size of their feet as a status symbol and mark of beauty, practised from 10th to early 20th centuries. Article “Foot binding” in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 218 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10 points.

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

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3763^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5740^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Foot binding” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Foot binding”, its content was written by 802 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1885 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 961 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2598 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2169 in July 2003
• Global: #4316 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3763 in June 2026
• Global: #5392 in August 2011

There are 37 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	Ukrainian (uk) Бинтування ніг		93.8486
2	English (en) Foot binding		90
3	Russian (ru) Бинтование ног		78.1593
4	Chinese (zh) 缠足		73.4994
5	Armenian (hy) Ոտքերի երիզակապում		70.9448
6	Portuguese (pt) Pés de lótus		60.7493
7	Finnish (fi) Jalkojen sitominen		55.0574
8	German (de) Füßebinden		51.7598
9	Spanish (es) Vendado de pies		47.5066
10	Basque (eu) Oinak bendatze		39.8988

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foot binding		11 655 529
2	Japanese (ja) 纏足		2 659 657
3	German (de) Füßebinden		1 455 596
4	Chinese (zh) 缠足		1 216 861
5	Russian (ru) Бинтование ног		1 003 536
6	French (fr) Pieds bandés		807 892
7	Spanish (es) Vendado de pies		720 113
8	Italian (it) Loto d'oro		631 235
9	Polish (pl) Krępowanie stóp		412 086
10	Dutch (nl) Lotusvoetjes		312 814

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) Foot binding		111 813
2	Russian (ru) Бинтование ног		4 867
3	Chinese (zh) 缠足		4 769
4	Japanese (ja) 纏足		4 561
5	German (de) Füßebinden		3 752
6	French (fr) Pieds bandés		3 495
7	Italian (it) Loto d'oro		2 382
8	Persian (fa) بستن پا		1 942
9	Spanish (es) Vendado de pies		1 379
10	Polish (pl) Krępowanie stóp		1 155

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Foot binding		802
2	German (de) Füßebinden		129
3	Chinese (zh) 缠足		129
4	Italian (it) Loto d'oro		86
5	Dutch (nl) Lotusvoetjes		78
6	French (fr) Pieds bandés		76
7	Russian (ru) Бинтование ног		75
8	Japanese (ja) 纏足		60
9	Spanish (es) Vendado de pies		48
10	Hebrew (he) כריכת רגליים		37

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	English (en) Foot binding		5
2	Italian (it) Loto d'oro		2
3	Chinese (zh) 缠足		1
4	Arabic (ar) ربط القدم		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Ayağın bağlanması		0
6	Belarusian (be) Спавіванне ног		0
7	Catalan (ca) Embenat de peus		0
8	Czech (cs) Svazování chodidel		0
9	Danish (da) Liljefod		0
10	German (de) Füßebinden		0

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

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