Straightedge

Straightedge - any of various tools, usually long bars or strips of wood or metal, having straight and true edges and used for drawing or cutting accurate straight lines. Article “Straightedge” in English Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.75 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Straightedge”, its content was written by 66 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 171 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 247 times in English Wikipedia and cited 908 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16248 in March 2003
• Global: #20933 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #133986 in September 2009
• Global: #186294 in September 2009

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	Tamil (ta) நேர்விளிம்பு		27.3689
2	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		26.2423
3	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		20.6379
4	Uzbek (uz) Streytedj		15.8788
5	English (en) Straightedge		14.3332
6	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		12.6048
7	Chinese (zh) 直尺		12.284
8	German (de) Haarlineal		8.6562
9	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		6.2728
10	Bulgarian (bg) Косъм линия		3.2453

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Straightedge		580 193
2	German (de) Haarlineal		152 406
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		49 233
4	Persian (fa) سطاره		23 365
5	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		17 740
6	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		17 541
7	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		14 942
8	Japanese (ja) 直定規		12 101
9	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		8 603
10	Bulgarian (bg) Косъм линия		2 560

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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 "Straightedge" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Straightedge		1 717
2	German (de) Haarlineal		313
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		274
4	Persian (fa) سطاره		90
5	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		83
6	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		74
7	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		64
8	Japanese (ja) 直定規		63
9	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		23
10	Bulgarian (bg) Косъм линия		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Straightedge		66
2	German (de) Haarlineal		28
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		23
4	Persian (fa) سطاره		12
5	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		11
6	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		8
7	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		6
8	Japanese (ja) 直定規		4
9	Tamil (ta) நேர்விளிம்பு		4
10	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		2

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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 "Straightedge" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Косъм линия		0
3	German (de) Haarlineal		0
4	English (en) Straightedge		0
5	Persian (fa) سطاره		0
6	Japanese (ja) 直定規		0
7	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		0
8	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		0
9	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		0
10	Tamil (ta) நேர்விளிம்பு		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 "Straightedge" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Straightedge		247
2	Persian (fa) سطاره		237
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		182
4	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		163
5	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		18
6	Japanese (ja) 直定規		15
7	German (de) Haarlineal		13
8	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		12
9	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		10
10	Tamil (ta) நேர்விளிம்பு		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسطرة تقويم
bg	Bulgarian Косъм линия
de	German Haarlineal
en	English Straightedge
fa	Persian سطاره
ja	Japanese 直定規
nl	Dutch Rei (gereedschap)
no	Norwegian Rettholt
sv	Swedish Rätskiva
ta	Tamil நேர்விளிம்பு
tr	Turkish Mastar (araç)
uz	Uzbek Streytedj
vi	Vietnamese Thước thẳng
zh	Chinese 直尺

Best Rank

English: #133986 09.2009

Global: #186294 09.2009

Best Rank

English: #16248 03.2003

Global: #20933 11.2002

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