Lancer protocolaire

Ceremonial first pitch - traditional ritual in baseball. Article “Lancer protocolaire” in French Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.05 points.

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 “Lancer protocolaire”, its content was written by 4 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 217 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1664 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #60114 in November 2016
• Global: #94113 in April 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #510422 in July 2013
• Global: #94892 in June 2014

There are 6 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) Ceremonial first pitch		70.5214
2	Japanese (ja) 始球式		24.752
3	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		19.8968
4	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		18.4589
5	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		16.7678
6	Korean (ko) 시구식		10.4667

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ceremonial first pitch		672 228
2	Japanese (ja) 始球式		409 137
3	Korean (ko) 시구식		9 059
4	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		7 814
5	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		4 694
6	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		827

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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 "Lancer protocolaire" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ceremonial first pitch		3 534
2	Japanese (ja) 始球式		1 680
3	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		264
4	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		112
5	Korean (ko) 시구식		72
6	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		19

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ceremonial first pitch		142
2	Japanese (ja) 始球式		56
3	Korean (ko) 시구식		9
4	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		4
5	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		4
6	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		2

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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 "Lancer protocolaire" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ceremonial first pitch		1
2	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		0
3	Japanese (ja) 始球式		0
4	Korean (ko) 시구식		0
5	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		0
6	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		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 "Lancer protocolaire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 始球式		782
2	English (en) Ceremonial first pitch		726
3	Chinese (zh) 開球儀式		109
4	French (fr) Lancer protocolaire		29
5	Korean (ko) 시구식		15
6	Simple English (simple) Ceremonial first pitch		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Ceremonial first pitch
fr	French Lancer protocolaire
ja	Japanese 始球式
ko	Korean 시구식
simple	Simple English Ceremonial first pitch
zh	Chinese 開球儀式

Best Rank

French: #510422 07.2013

Global: #94892 06.2014

Best Rank

French: #60114 11.2016

Global: #94113 04.2006

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