Inkstick

Inkstick - type of solid ink (India ink) used traditionally in several East Asian cultures for calligraphy and brush painting. Article “Inkstick” in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Inkstick”, its content was written by 64 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 313 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in English Wikipedia and cited 842 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #59316 in March 2021
• Global: #44538 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #203453 in April 2016
• Global: #157046 in July 2011

There are 17 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) 墨		48.0387
2	Japanese (ja) 墨		44.271
3	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		42.7114
4	English (en) Inkstick		29.6265
5	Swedish (sv) Tuschstång		23.6935
6	Spanish (es) Barra de tinta		21.7634
7	Russian (ru) Китайская тушь		21.236
8	Ukrainian (uk) Китайська туш		14.1399
9	Hungarian (hu) Tusrúd		12.078
10	Norwegian (no) Tusjstang		11.2907

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 墨		737 864
2	English (en) Inkstick		439 228
3	Chinese (zh) 墨		258 178
4	Russian (ru) Китайская тушь		74 689
5	German (de) Stangentusche		60 893
6	Korean (ko) 먹		46 496
7	French (fr) Bâton d'encre		30 481
8	Portuguese (pt) Sumi		27 680
9	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		21 558
10	Ukrainian (uk) Китайська туш		6 571

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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 "Inkstick" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Inkstick		2 995
2	Japanese (ja) 墨		1 504
3	Chinese (zh) 墨		920
4	Russian (ru) Китайская тушь		254
5	Korean (ko) 먹		243
6	German (de) Stangentusche		192
7	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		148
8	French (fr) Bâton d'encre		96
9	Portuguese (pt) Sumi		76
10	Spanish (es) Barra de tinta		51

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Inkstick		64
2	Japanese (ja) 墨		57
3	Chinese (zh) 墨		42
4	German (de) Stangentusche		29
5	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		23
6	French (fr) Bâton d'encre		18
7	Russian (ru) Китайская тушь		18
8	Korean (ko) 먹		12
9	Dutch (nl) Inktstaaf		9
10	Portuguese (pt) Sumi		9

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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 "Inkstick" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Stangentusche		0
2	English (en) Inkstick		0
3	Spanish (es) Barra de tinta		0
4	French (fr) Bâton d'encre		0
5	Hungarian (hu) Tusrúd		0
6	Indonesian (id) Batang tinta		0
7	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		0
8	Japanese (ja) 墨		0
9	Korean (ko) 먹		0
10	Dutch (nl) Inktstaaf		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 "Inkstick" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 墨		438
2	Chinese (zh) 墨		164
3	English (en) Inkstick		70
4	Korean (ko) 먹		33
5	Russian (ru) Китайская тушь		33
6	German (de) Stangentusche		31
7	Italian (it) Bastone d'inchiostro		19
8	French (fr) Bâton d'encre		13
9	Dutch (nl) Inktstaaf		9
10	Norwegian (no) Tusjstang		8

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#	Language	Value
de	German Stangentusche
en	English Inkstick
es	Spanish Barra de tinta
fr	French Bâton d'encre
hu	Hungarian Tusrúd
id	Indonesian Batang tinta
it	Italian Bastone d'inchiostro
ja	Japanese 墨
ko	Korean 먹
nl	Dutch Inktstaaf
no	Norwegian Tusjstang
pt	Portuguese Sumi
ru	Russian Китайская тушь
sv	Swedish Tuschstång
uk	Ukrainian Китайська туш
zh	Chinese 墨
zhminnan	Min Nan Ba̍k (bûn-kū)

Best Rank

English: #203453 04.2016

Global: #157046 07.2011

Best Rank

English: #59316 03.2021

Global: #44538 06.2013

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