Smoke signal

Smoke signal - smoke used as a mode of communication. Article “Smoke signal” in English Wikipedia has 49.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 12 sections.

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 “Smoke signal”, its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 688 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1151 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2476 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #997 in May 2001
• Global: #1007 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #68766 in March 2014
• Global: #66859 in March 2014

There are 29 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) Smoke signal		49.4341
2	Malay (ms) Isyarat asap		39.131
3	Greek (el) Σήματα καπνού		36.8898
4	Ukrainian (uk) Димовий сигнал		32.1528
5	Basque (eu) Ke-seinale		30.9128
6	Catalan (ca) Senyals de fum		30.8302
7	Azerbaijani (az) Tüstü siqnalı		30.0797
8	Dutch (nl) Rooksignaal		26.6159
9	Finnish (fi) Savumerkki		25.7321
10	German (de) Rauchzeichen		25.5252

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smoke signal		1 413 347
2	Japanese (ja) 狼煙		664 476
3	Spanish (es) Señal de humo		452 901
4	German (de) Rauchzeichen		211 418
5	French (fr) Signal de fumée		173 322
6	Indonesian (id) Sinyal asap		114 478
7	Turkish (tr) Dumanla haberleşme		86 444
8	Dutch (nl) Rooksignaal		85 183
9	Italian (it) Segnali di fumo		73 753
10	Chinese (zh) 烽火		71 055

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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 "Smoke signal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smoke signal		5 210
2	Japanese (ja) 狼煙		1 912
3	Chinese (zh) 烽火		649
4	German (de) Rauchzeichen		482
5	Spanish (es) Señal de humo		413
6	French (fr) Signal de fumée		332
7	Turkish (tr) Dumanla haberleşme		181
8	Italian (it) Segnali di fumo		148
9	Dutch (nl) Rooksignaal		90
10	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de fumo		80

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smoke signal		179
2	German (de) Rauchzeichen		88
3	French (fr) Signal de fumée		57
4	Dutch (nl) Rooksignaal		53
5	Japanese (ja) 狼煙		40
6	Spanish (es) Señal de humo		35
7	Chinese (zh) 烽火		29
8	Korean (ko) 봉수 (통신)		26
9	Italian (it) Segnali di fumo		19
10	Hungarian (hu) Füstjel		18

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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 "Smoke signal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Signal de fumée		1
2	Arabic (ar) إشارة دخانية		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Tüstü siqnalı		0
4	Catalan (ca) Senyals de fum		0
5	Czech (cs) Kouřový signál		0
6	German (de) Rauchzeichen		0
7	Greek (el) Σήματα καπνού		0
8	English (en) Smoke signal		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Fumsignalo		0
10	Spanish (es) Señal de humo		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 "Smoke signal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Smoke signal		1 151
2	Japanese (ja) 狼煙		358
3	Korean (ko) 봉수 (통신)		243
4	Arabic (ar) إشارة دخانية		147
5	Chinese (zh) 烽火		139
6	Azerbaijani (az) Tüstü siqnalı		86
7	French (fr) Signal de fumée		64
8	German (de) Rauchzeichen		40
9	Indonesian (id) Sinyal asap		39
10	Malay (ms) Isyarat asap		37

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إشارة دخانية
az	Azerbaijani Tüstü siqnalı
ca	Catalan Senyals de fum
cs	Czech Kouřový signál
de	German Rauchzeichen
el	Greek Σήματα καπνού
en	English Smoke signal
eo	Esperanto Fumsignalo
es	Spanish Señal de humo
eu	Basque Ke-seinale
fa	Persian علامت دود
fi	Finnish Savumerkki
fr	French Signal de fumée
gl	Galician Sinal de fume
he	Hebrew איתות עשן
hu	Hungarian Füstjel
id	Indonesian Sinyal asap
it	Italian Segnali di fumo
ja	Japanese 狼煙
ko	Korean 봉수 (통신)
ms	Malay Isyarat asap
nl	Dutch Rooksignaal
no	Norwegian Røyksignaler
pt	Portuguese Sinal de fumo
sr	Serbian Димни сигнали
sv	Swedish Röksignal
tr	Turkish Dumanla haberleşme
uk	Ukrainian Димовий сигнал
zh	Chinese 烽火

Best Rank

English: #68766 03.2014

Global: #66859 03.2014

Best Rank

English: #997 05.2001

Global: #1007 05.2001

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