Pelorus (instrument)

Pelorus - navigational instrument. Article “Pelorus (instrument)” in English Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Pelorus (instrument)”, its content was written by 26 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 115 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 109 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #69308 in November 2015
• Global: #95932 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #364473 in April 2017
• Global: #449134 in June 2008

There are 11 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	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		18.5393
2	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		18.4565
3	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		17.922
4	Arabic (ar) بيلوروس (آلة)		11.1559
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пелорус		10.384
6	Russian (ru) Пелорус		3.8048
7	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		3.7494
8	German (de) Peilscheibe		2.8776
9	Greek (el) Πελόρους		2.7323
10	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		2.0153

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Pelorus (instrument)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		285 967
2	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		39 708
3	Russian (ru) Пелорус		38 810
4	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		16 996
5	German (de) Peilscheibe		12 982
6	Dutch (nl) Pelorus (instrument)		7 323
7	Greek (el) Πελόρους		6 009
8	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		2 723
9	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		1 543
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пелорус		511

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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 "Pelorus (instrument)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		1 645
2	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		125
3	Russian (ru) Пелорус		99
4	German (de) Peilscheibe		72
5	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		69
6	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		50
7	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		31
8	Greek (el) Πελόρους		23
9	Dutch (nl) Pelorus (instrument)		13
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пелорус		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Пелорус		27
2	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		26
3	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		15
4	German (de) Peilscheibe		12
5	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		10
6	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		9
7	Dutch (nl) Pelorus (instrument)		7
8	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		4
9	Greek (el) Πελόρους		3
10	Arabic (ar) بيلوروس (آلة)		1

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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 "Pelorus (instrument)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) بيلوروس (آلة)		0
2	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		0
3	German (de) Peilscheibe		0
4	Greek (el) Πελόρους		0
5	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		0
6	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		0
7	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		0
8	Dutch (nl) Pelorus (instrument)		0
9	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		0
10	Russian (ru) Пелорус		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 "Pelorus (instrument)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Catalan (ca) Taxímetre (nàutica)		50
2	English (en) Pelorus (instrument)		20
3	French (fr) Taximètre (marine)		8
4	German (de) Peilscheibe		7
5	Spanish (es) Taxímetro (náutica)		7
6	Ukrainian (uk) Пелорус		5
7	Dutch (nl) Pelorus (instrument)		4
8	Norwegian (no) Peileskive (maritimt instrument)		3
9	Russian (ru) Пелорус		3
10	Greek (el) Πελόρους		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بيلوروس (آلة)
ca	Catalan Taxímetre (nàutica)
de	German Peilscheibe
el	Greek Πελόρους
en	English Pelorus (instrument)
es	Spanish Taxímetro (náutica)
fr	French Taximètre (marine)
nl	Dutch Pelorus (instrument)
no	Norwegian Peileskive (maritimt instrument)
ru	Russian Пелорус
uk	Ukrainian Пелорус

Best Rank

English: #364473 04.2017

Global: #449134 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #69308 11.2015

Global: #95932 06.2012

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