Kitsune

Quality:

Kitsune - shapeshifting spirits in Japanese folk mythology often resembling foxes, sometimes with multiple tails. Article “Kitsune” in Basque Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Kitsune” was edited by 1 authors in Basque Wikipedia (7652^nd place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kitsune”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 1731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 3212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #7652 in June 2025
• Global: #1764 in January 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #16721 in December 2024
• Global: #5423 in April 2014

There are 36 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) Kitsune		95
2	Catalan (ca) Kitsune		89.2916
3	Indonesian (id) Kitsune		87.6159
4	Italian (it) Kitsune		82.5848
5	Persian (fa) کیتسونه		74.8573
6	Galician (gl) Kitsune		72.9785
7	French (fr) Renard dans la culture japonaise		71.6207
8	Spanish (es) Kitsune		69.569
9	Japanese (ja) 日本の文化における狐		56.8446
10	Portuguese (pt) Kitsune		53.4105

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kitsune		12 362 165
2	Russian (ru) Кицунэ		3 030 098
3	Spanish (es) Kitsune		1 819 667
4	Portuguese (pt) Kitsune		1 178 283
5	French (fr) Renard dans la culture japonaise		1 140 294
6	German (de) Kitsune		1 047 945
7	Italian (it) Kitsune		899 079
8	Indonesian (id) Kitsune		485 588
9	Polish (pl) Kitsune		390 354
10	Japanese (ja) 日本の文化における狐		211 270

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kitsune		43 245
2	Russian (ru) Кицунэ		13 420
3	Spanish (es) Kitsune		3 847
4	German (de) Kitsune		3 682
5	French (fr) Renard dans la culture japonaise		3 199
6	Japanese (ja) 日本の文化における狐		3 145
7	Italian (it) Kitsune		2 306
8	Portuguese (pt) Kitsune		1 727
9	Polish (pl) Kitsune		1 033
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кіцуне		800

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kitsune		709
2	French (fr) Renard dans la culture japonaise		154
3	Italian (it) Kitsune		116
4	Russian (ru) Кицунэ		97
5	Spanish (es) Kitsune		93
6	German (de) Kitsune		87
7	Portuguese (pt) Kitsune		70
8	Dutch (nl) Kitsune		43
9	Persian (fa) کیتسونه		32
10	Indonesian (id) Kitsune		27

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kitsune		3
2	Russian (ru) Кицунэ		2
3	Catalan (ca) Kitsune		1
4	Basque (eu) Kitsune		1
5	French (fr) Renard dans la culture japonaise		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Kicune		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Kitsune		1
8	Arabic (ar) كيتسونه		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kitsune		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Китсуне		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information