Carcan

Pillory - a punishment device in the form of a wooden block, typically placed on a pole, primarily intended to restrain the head (neck) and arms (wrists). Article “Carcan” in French Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Carcan”, its content was written by 43 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 379 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 97 times in French Wikipedia and cited 699 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #8601 in August 2012
• Global: #13615 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #49605 in September 2015
• Global: #19814 in December 2008

There are 8 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) Pillory		60.1199
2	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		19.6623
3	Korean (ko) 차꼬		18.0883
4	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		17.9171
5	French (fr) Carcan		17.0277
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		10.3505
7	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		7.1214
8	Simple English (simple) Pillory		3.8098

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pillory		5 086 599
2	French (fr) Carcan		261 366
3	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		135 619
4	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		82 420
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		12 588
6	Korean (ko) 차꼬		7 431
7	Simple English (simple) Pillory		1 747
8	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		169

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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 "Carcan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pillory		32 330
2	French (fr) Carcan		1 005
3	Korean (ko) 차꼬		734
4	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		354
5	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		244
6	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		168
7	Simple English (simple) Pillory		108
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		84

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pillory		280
2	French (fr) Carcan		43
3	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		23
4	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		17
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		13
6	Simple English (simple) Pillory		2
7	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		1
8	Korean (ko) 차꼬		0

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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 "Carcan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pillory		1
2	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		1
3	French (fr) Carcan		0
4	Korean (ko) 차꼬		0
5	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		0
6	Simple English (simple) Pillory		0
7	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		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 "Carcan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Pillory		515
2	French (fr) Carcan		97
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ганебний стовп		35
4	Swedish (sv) Stupstock		18
5	Chinese (zh) 颈手枷		16
6	Polish (pl) Gąsior (narzędzie kary)		9
7	Simple English (simple) Pillory		6
8	Korean (ko) 차꼬		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Pillory
fr	French Carcan
ko	Korean 차꼬
pl	Polish Gąsior (narzędzie kary)
simple	Simple English Pillory
sv	Swedish Stupstock
uk	Ukrainian Ганебний стовп
zh	Chinese 颈手枷

Best Rank

French: #49605 09.2015

Global: #19814 12.2008

Best Rank

French: #8601 08.2012

Global: #13615 08.2003

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