Line-crossing ceremony

Line-crossing ceremony - Initiation rite for first crossing of the equator. Article “Line-crossing ceremony” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.05 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Line-crossing ceremony”, its content was written by 187 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 411 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1066 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1200 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16089 in March 2005
• Global: #24081 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19574 in September 2015
• Global: #40680 in September 2015

There are 14 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	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		54.474
2	Hebrew (he) טקס חציית המשווה		49.9172
3	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		37.2566
4	Finnish (fi) Päiväntasaajankaste		31.1855
5	German (de) Äquatortaufe		23.6312
6	Russian (ru) Праздник Нептуна		23.2239
7	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		13.2871
8	Indonesian (id) Upacara penyeberangan garis		12.6458
9	Polish (pl) Chrzest równikowy		12.5708
10	Portuguese (pt) Rito de passagem da linha do Equador		7.5411

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Line-crossing ceremony" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		2 641 106
2	Russian (ru) Праздник Нептуна		338 340
3	German (de) Äquatortaufe		318 922
4	Dutch (nl) Neptunusritueel		65 177
5	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		40 909
6	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		20 285
7	Danish (da) Ækvatordåb		20 133
8	Swedish (sv) Linjedop		18 267
9	Portuguese (pt) Rito de passagem da linha do Equador		16 795
10	Polish (pl) Chrzest równikowy		8 850

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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 "Line-crossing ceremony" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		8 647
2	Russian (ru) Праздник Нептуна		1 481
3	German (de) Äquatortaufe		988
4	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		375
5	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		237
6	Dutch (nl) Neptunusritueel		199
7	Polish (pl) Chrzest równikowy		194
8	Danish (da) Ækvatordåb		73
9	Portuguese (pt) Rito de passagem da linha do Equador		67
10	Swedish (sv) Linjedop		62

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		187
2	German (de) Äquatortaufe		71
3	Russian (ru) Праздник Нептуна		66
4	Danish (da) Ækvatordåb		18
5	Hebrew (he) טקס חציית המשווה		18
6	Dutch (nl) Neptunusritueel		14
7	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		10
8	Swedish (sv) Linjedop		10
9	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		8
10	Portuguese (pt) Rito de passagem da linha do Equador		3

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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 "Line-crossing ceremony" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		1
2	Danish (da) Ækvatordåb		0
3	German (de) Äquatortaufe		0
4	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Neptuno-festo		0
6	Finnish (fi) Päiväntasaajankaste		0
7	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		0
8	Hebrew (he) טקס חציית המשווה		0
9	Indonesian (id) Upacara penyeberangan garis		0
10	Dutch (nl) Neptunusritueel		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 "Line-crossing ceremony" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Line-crossing ceremony		1 066
2	German (de) Äquatortaufe		38
3	Russian (ru) Праздник Нептуна		29
4	Hebrew (he) טקס חציית המשווה		14
5	Polish (pl) Chrzest równikowy		10
6	French (fr) Baptême de la Ligne		8
7	Japanese (ja) 赤道祭		8
8	Dutch (nl) Neptunusritueel		8
9	Swedish (sv) Linjedop		7
10	Danish (da) Ækvatordåb		5

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Ækvatordåb
de	German Äquatortaufe
en	English Line-crossing ceremony
eo	Esperanto Neptuno-festo
fi	Finnish Päiväntasaajankaste
fr	French Baptême de la Ligne
he	Hebrew טקס חציית המשווה
id	Indonesian Upacara penyeberangan garis
ja	Japanese 赤道祭
nl	Dutch Neptunusritueel
pl	Polish Chrzest równikowy
pt	Portuguese Rito de passagem da linha do Equador
ru	Russian Праздник Нептуна
sv	Swedish Linjedop

Best Rank

English: #19574 09.2015

Global: #40680 09.2015

Best Rank

English: #16089 03.2005

Global: #24081 03.2005

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