Basan (yōkai)

Basan - fictional bird. Article “Basan (yōkai)” in French Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Basan (yōkai)”, its content was written by 7 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 87 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 166 times in French Wikipedia and cited 559 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #48144 in December 2022
• Global: #184755 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #118209 in October 2023
• Global: #264816 in October 2023

There are 9 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	Chinese (zh) 波山		30.2011
2	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		26.0465
3	Korean (ko) 바산		25.5724
4	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		24.6861
5	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		24.6426
6	Japanese (ja) 波山		23.7474
7	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		21.0103
8	Spanish (es) Basan		4.2054
9	Portuguese (pt) Basan		3.0588

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Basan (yōkai)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 波山		177 578
2	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		116 541
3	Spanish (es) Basan		63 847
4	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		23 330
5	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		23 285
6	Portuguese (pt) Basan		13 451
7	Korean (ko) 바산		8 673
8	Chinese (zh) 波山		4 177
9	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		9

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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 "Basan (yōkai)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		2 095
2	Japanese (ja) 波山		484
3	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		178
4	Chinese (zh) 波山		142
5	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		119
6	Spanish (es) Basan		113
7	Portuguese (pt) Basan		51
8	Korean (ko) 바산		43
9	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		42
2	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		10
3	Spanish (es) Basan		8
4	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		7
5	Korean (ko) 바산		6
6	Portuguese (pt) Basan		6
7	Japanese (ja) 波山		5
8	Chinese (zh) 波山		2
9	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		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 "Basan (yōkai)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		1
2	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		0
3	Spanish (es) Basan		0
4	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		0
5	Japanese (ja) 波山		0
6	Korean (ko) 바산		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Basan		0
8	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 波山		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 "Basan (yōkai)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Basan (legendary bird)		248
2	French (fr) Basan (yōkai)		166
3	Russian (ru) Басан (мифология)		107
4	Chinese (zh) 波山		19
5	Japanese (ja) 波山		14
6	Korean (ko) 바산		2
7	Spanish (es) Basan		1
8	Italian (it) Basan (uccello leggendario)		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Basan		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Basan (legendary bird)
es	Spanish Basan
fr	French Basan (yōkai)
it	Italian Basan (uccello leggendario)
ja	Japanese 波山
ko	Korean 바산
pt	Portuguese Basan
ru	Russian Басан (мифология)
zh	Chinese 波山

Best Rank

French: #118209 10.2023

Global: #264816 10.2023

Best Rank

French: #48144 12.2022

Global: #184755 08.2012

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