Sharpening stone

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Sharpening stone

Quality:

Sharpening stone - stone used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing. Article “Sharpening stone” in English Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.9 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 2025 the article “Sharpening stone” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sharpening stone”, its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 691 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 337 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1594 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #14588 in June 2025
  • Global: #9057 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #71410 in June 2020
  • Global: #74305 in July 2013

There are 30 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
55.1707
2Estonian (et)
Luisk
35.792
3Persian (fa)
سنگ تیزکننده
35.7426
4Latin (la)
Cos (instrumentum)
33.4662
5German (de)
Wetzstein
32.0482
6Swedish (sv)
Bryne
29.5647
7Japanese (ja)
砥石
28.8162
8Russian (ru)
Оселок
28.2692
9French (fr)
Pierre à aiguiser
25.1705
10Finnish (fi)
Kovasin
24.133
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Sharpening stone" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
1 918 933
2Japanese (ja)
砥石
689 449
3Spanish (es)
Piedra de afilar
304 804
4Italian (it)
Cote
155 269
5French (fr)
Pierre à aiguiser
151 593
6Russian (ru)
Оселок
150 439
7German (de)
Wetzstein
120 722
8Swedish (sv)
Bryne
108 376
9Portuguese (pt)
Pedra de amolar
85 982
10Polish (pl)
Osełka
83 374
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Sharpening stone" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
5 882
2Japanese (ja)
砥石
1 050
3Russian (ru)
Оселок
542
4Spanish (es)
Piedra de afilar
371
5Italian (it)
Cote
363
6Chinese (zh)
磨刀石
312
7German (de)
Wetzstein
308
8French (fr)
Pierre à aiguiser
290
9Polish (pl)
Osełka
189
10Finnish (fi)
Kovasin
165
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Sharpening stone" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
179
2German (de)
Wetzstein
64
3Japanese (ja)
砥石
54
4French (fr)
Pierre à aiguiser
51
5Italian (it)
Cote
44
6Dutch (nl)
Wetsteen
38
7Swedish (sv)
Bryne
38
8Norwegian (no)
Brynestein
33
9Russian (ru)
Оселок
32
10Finnish (fi)
Kovasin
21
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Sharpening stone" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
8
2Arabic (ar)
حجر سن
1
3Catalan (ca)
Pedra d'esmolar
0
4Czech (cs)
Brousek
0
5German (de)
Wetzstein
0
6Spanish (es)
Piedra de afilar
0
7Estonian (et)
Luisk
0
8Basque (eu)
Zorroztarri
0
9Persian (fa)
سنگ تیزکننده
0
10Finnish (fi)
Kovasin
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Sharpening stone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Sharpening stone
337
2Japanese (ja)
砥石
291
3Swedish (sv)
Bryne
210
4Arabic (ar)
حجر سن
180
5German (de)
Wetzstein
97
6Chinese (zh)
磨刀石
58
7French (fr)
Pierre à aiguiser
49
8Catalan (ca)
Pedra d'esmolar
38
9Italian (it)
Cote
37
10Spanish (es)
Piedra de afilar
34
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حجر سن
caCatalan
Pedra d'esmolar
csCzech
Brousek
deGerman
Wetzstein
enEnglish
Sharpening stone
esSpanish
Piedra de afilar
etEstonian
Luisk
euBasque
Zorroztarri
faPersian
سنگ تیزکننده
fiFinnish
Kovasin
frFrench
Pierre à aiguiser
glGalician
Pedra de afiar
idIndonesian
Batu asah
itItalian
Cote
jaJapanese
砥石
kkKazakh
Жануыш
koKorean
숫돌
laLatin
Cos (instrumentum)
ltLithuanian
Galąstuvas
nlDutch
Wetsteen
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Brynestein
noNorwegian
Brynestein
plPolish
Osełka
ptPortuguese
Pedra de amolar
ruRussian
Оселок
srSerbian
Брус (алатка)
svSwedish
Bryne
ukUkrainian
Брусок (напилок)
viVietnamese
Đá mài
zhChinese
磨刀石

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#71410
06.2020
Global:
#74305
07.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#14588
06.2025
Global:
#9057
12.2003

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Sharpening stone from Wikipedia articles about Whetstone, Honing steel, Scythe, Icelandic magical staves and Razor strop. Whereas reading the article about Sharpening stone people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Swarf, Novaculite, Honing steel, Knife sharpening and Cutting fluid.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 砥石
it: Cote
sv: Bryne
ko: 숫돌
et: Luisk

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