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, 2026). 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 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 198 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 256 times in English Wikipedia and cited 957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16240 in March 2003
• Global: #20959 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134676 in September 2009
• Global: #185720 in September 2009

There are 15 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	Tamil (ta) நேர்விளிம்பு		27.2846
2	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		26.5008
3	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		26.2864
4	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		20.5565
5	Uzbek (uz) Streytedj		15.8944
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thước thẳng		15.075
7	English (en) Straightedge		14.2672
8	Chinese (zh) 直尺		12.2757
9	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		10.7306
10	German (de) Haarlineal		8.3666

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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		593 669
2	German (de) Haarlineal		158 668
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		51 369
4	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		28 391
5	Persian (fa) سطاره		23 906
6	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		18 732
7	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		17 940
8	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		15 767
9	Japanese (ja) 直定規		12 869
10	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		9 152

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Straightedge		935
2	German (de) Haarlineal		255
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		169
4	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		70
5	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		68
6	Japanese (ja) 直定規		67
7	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		58
8	Persian (fa) سطاره		37
9	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		33
10	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		26

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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		69
2	German (de) Haarlineal		28
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		23
4	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		21
5	Persian (fa) سطاره		12
6	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		11
7	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		8
8	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		6
9	Japanese (ja) 直定規		5
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thước thẳng		4

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Косъм линия		0
3	German (de) Haarlineal		0
4	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		0
5	English (en) Straightedge		0
6	Persian (fa) سطاره		0
7	Japanese (ja) 直定規		0
8	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		0
9	Norwegian (no) Rettholt		0
10	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		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		256
2	Persian (fa) سطاره		237
3	Chinese (zh) 直尺		190
4	Arabic (ar) مسطرة تقويم		164
5	Greek (el) Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)		30
6	Swedish (sv) Rätskiva		17
7	Japanese (ja) 直定規		15
8	Turkish (tr) Mastar (araç)		14
9	German (de) Haarlineal		12
10	Dutch (nl) Rei (gereedschap)		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسطرة تقويم
bg	Bulgarian Косъм линия
de	German Haarlineal
el	Greek Κανόνας (γεωμετρία)
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: #134676 09.2009

Global: #185720 09.2009

Best Rank

English: #16240 03.2003

Global: #20959 11.2002

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