Number sign

Quality:

Number sign - typographic symbol "#". Article “Number sign” in English Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 87 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.81 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.

In June 2026 the article “Number sign” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Number sign”, its content was written by 704 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 749 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3177 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #198 in June 2002
• Global: #299 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2544 in October 2024
• Global: #4597 in October 2024

There are 34 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	English (en) Number sign		72.4711
2	Italian (it) Cancelletto		51.7388
3	German (de) Rautezeichen		37.4234
4	Basque (eu) Traol		29.58
5	Slovenian (sl) Številski znak		28.0071
6	Spanish (es) Numeral (símbolo)		27.8635
7	French (fr) Croisillon (signe)		27.368
8	Korean (ko) 번호 기호		27.159
9	Portuguese (pt) Cerquilha		24.4379
10	Indonesian (id) Tanda pagar		24.4224

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Number sign		12 529 817
2	Spanish (es) Numeral (símbolo)		1 420 485
3	Russian (ru) Знак решётки		1 370 649
4	Japanese (ja) 番号記号		717 015
5	Portuguese (pt) Cerquilha		552 796
6	French (fr) Croisillon (signe)		473 377
7	Italian (it) Cancelletto		455 259
8	Polish (pl) Kratka (symbol)		292 369
9	Chinese (zh) 井號		267 008
10	Dutch (nl) Hekje		223 571

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) Number sign		31 637
2	Spanish (es) Numeral (símbolo)		5 516
3	Russian (ru) Знак решётки		3 969
4	Japanese (ja) 番号記号		2 937
5	German (de) Rautezeichen		2 223
6	Italian (it) Cancelletto		1 322
7	French (fr) Croisillon (signe)		1 000
8	Chinese (zh) 井號		784
9	Czech (cs) Křížek (znak čísla)		580
10	Swedish (sv) Nummertecken		564

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Number sign		704
2	German (de) Rautezeichen		173
3	Russian (ru) Знак решётки		107
4	Spanish (es) Numeral (símbolo)		74
5	Dutch (nl) Hekje		68
6	Japanese (ja) 番号記号		62
7	Italian (it) Cancelletto		54
8	Portuguese (pt) Cerquilha		54
9	French (fr) Croisillon (signe)		49
10	Hebrew (he) סולמית		40

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) Number sign		5
2	Portuguese (pt) Cerquilha		2
3	Chinese (zh) 井號		2
4	Arabic (ar) رمز الرقم		1
5	Basque (eu) Traol		1
6	French (fr) Croisillon (signe)		1
7	Japanese (ja) 番号記号		1
8	Korean (ko) 번호 기호		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Diyez işarəsi		0
10	Catalan (ca) Quadradet		0

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

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