Motte castrale

Quality:

Motte-and-bailey castle - fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork. Article “Motte castrale” in French Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 102 references and 22 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Motte castrale” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Motte castrale”, its content was written by 195 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2890 times in French Wikipedia (4323^rd place) and cited 11198 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #372 in March 2008
• Global: #9497 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #4260 in September 2008
• Global: #23512 in September 2008

There are 31 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) Motte-and-bailey castle		97.7668
2	French (fr) Motte castrale		76.4461
3	Slovenian (sl) Mota (grad)		71.7368
4	Arabic (ar) قلعة موتي وبيلي		63.1524
5	German (de) Motte (Burg)		57.5572
6	Polish (pl) Rezydencja rycerska typu motte		49.9231
7	Dutch (nl) Mottekasteel		48.2032
8	Esperanto (eo) Kastela teramaso		40.5522
9	Turkish (tr) Motte ve bailey şatosu		31.9251
10	Hungarian (hu) Motte		30.4318

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Motte-and-bailey castle		3 977 914
2	German (de) Motte (Burg)		852 835
3	French (fr) Motte castrale		728 948
4	Dutch (nl) Mottekasteel		310 576
5	Russian (ru) Мотт и бейли		144 706
6	Polish (pl) Rezydencja rycerska typu motte		120 975
7	Italian (it) Motta castrale		91 457
8	Japanese (ja) モット・アンド・ベーリー		71 494
9	Spanish (es) Mota castral		71 467
10	Portuguese (pt) Castelo de mota		37 401

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) Motte-and-bailey castle		15 734
2	German (de) Motte (Burg)		3 261
3	French (fr) Motte castrale		3 034
4	Dutch (nl) Mottekasteel		1 310
5	Simple English (simple) Motte-and-bailey		1 020
6	Russian (ru) Мотт и бейли		774
7	Italian (it) Motta castrale		624
8	Polish (pl) Rezydencja rycerska typu motte		454
9	Japanese (ja) モット・アンド・ベーリー		393
10	Spanish (es) Mota castral		323

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Motte-and-bailey castle		371
2	French (fr) Motte castrale		195
3	German (de) Motte (Burg)		191
4	Dutch (nl) Mottekasteel		140
5	Italian (it) Motta castrale		70
6	Polish (pl) Rezydencja rycerska typu motte		41
7	Spanish (es) Mota castral		30
8	Russian (ru) Мотт и бейли		30
9	Japanese (ja) モット・アンド・ベーリー		24
10	Simple English (simple) Motte-and-bailey		22

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	French (fr) Motte castrale		2
2	German (de) Motte (Burg)		1
3	Arabic (ar) قلعة موتي وبيلي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Mott və beyli		0
5	Belarusian (be) Мотэ		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Мот и бейли		0
7	Catalan (ca) Castell de mota i pati		0
8	Czech (cs) Motte		0
9	Danish (da) Motte-and-bailey		0
10	English (en) Motte-and-bailey castle		0

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

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