USS Balao

USS Balao - 1942 Balao-class submarine. Article “USS Balao” in English Wikipedia has 48.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.54 points.

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

Since the creation of article “USS Balao”, its content was written by 65 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 184 times in English Wikipedia and cited 852 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #31266 in January 2025
• Global: #33797 in September 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #394093 in December 2008
• Global: #385723 in March 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	Vietnamese (vi) USS Balao (SS-285)		53.9291
2	English (en) USS Balao		48.1755
3	Spanish (es) USS Balao (SS-285)		28.2105
4	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		27.944
5	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		20.7742
6	Ukrainian (uk) USS Balao (SS-285)		20.4452
7	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		12.0663
8	Italian (it) USS Balao		10.2716
9	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		6.4507
10	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		4.2936

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) USS Balao		197 059
2	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		63 394
3	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		22 692
4	Italian (it) USS Balao		14 776
5	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		7 147
6	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		3 632
7	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		2 659
8	Spanish (es) USS Balao (SS-285)		1 664
9	Persian (fa) یواس‌اس بالاو (اس‌اس-۲۸۵)		849
10	Vietnamese (vi) USS Balao (SS-285)		475

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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 "USS Balao" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) USS Balao		1 061
2	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		365
3	Italian (it) USS Balao		275
4	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		107
5	Spanish (es) USS Balao (SS-285)		37
6	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		25
7	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		22
8	Ukrainian (uk) USS Balao (SS-285)		16
9	Vietnamese (vi) USS Balao (SS-285)		11
10	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) USS Balao		65
2	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		51
3	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		20
4	Italian (it) USS Balao		13
5	Ukrainian (uk) USS Balao (SS-285)		5
6	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		4
7	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		4
8	Spanish (es) USS Balao (SS-285)		2
9	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		2
10	Vietnamese (vi) USS Balao (SS-285)		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 "USS Balao" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		1
2	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		0
3	English (en) USS Balao		0
4	Spanish (es) USS Balao (SS-285)		0
5	Persian (fa) یواس‌اس بالاو (اس‌اس-۲۸۵)		0
6	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		0
7	Italian (it) USS Balao		0
8	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		0
9	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) USS Balao (SS-285)		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 "USS Balao" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) USS Balao		184
2	Japanese (ja) バラオ (潜水艦)		157
3	Polish (pl) USS Balao (SS-285)		138
4	Slovenian (sl) USS Balao (SS-285)		137
5	Vietnamese (vi) USS Balao (SS-285)		122
6	German (de) Balao (U-Boot)		44
7	French (fr) USS Balao (SS-285)		40
8	Ukrainian (uk) USS Balao (SS-285)		17
9	Italian (it) USS Balao		7
10	Persian (fa) یواس‌اس بالاو (اس‌اس-۲۸۵)		5

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#	Language	Value
de	German Balao (U-Boot)
en	English USS Balao
es	Spanish USS Balao (SS-285)
fa	Persian یواس‌اس بالاو (اس‌اس-۲۸۵)
fr	French USS Balao (SS-285)
it	Italian USS Balao
ja	Japanese バラオ (潜水艦)
pl	Polish USS Balao (SS-285)
sl	Slovenian USS Balao (SS-285)
uk	Ukrainian USS Balao (SS-285)
vi	Vietnamese USS Balao (SS-285)

Best Rank

English: #394093 12.2008

Global: #385723 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #31266 01.2025

Global: #33797 09.2024

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