Bésta

Quality:

Crossbow - type of ranged weapon based on the bow. Article "Bésta" in Galician Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Galician Wikipedia:
The 5828th most editable in Galician Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 7270th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Global Wikipedia:
The 7918th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Bésta", its content was written by 35 registered users of Galician Wikipedia (5828th place) and edited by 2881 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7270th place).

The article is cited 40 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 6820 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Galician): #141 in November 2005
  • Global: #1785 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Galician): #4175 in January 2011
  • Global: #5051 in July 2011

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Portuguese (pt)
Besta (arma)
99.687
2Catalan (ca)
Ballesta
98.2661
3English (en)
Crossbow
96.4781
4French (fr)
Arbalète
60.6453
5German (de)
Armbrust
59.2083
6Chinese (zh)
58.0483
7Spanish (es)
Ballesta
52.9107
8Ukrainian (uk)
Арбалет
45.8032
9Russian (ru)
Арбалет
43.7477
10Bulgarian (bg)
Арбалет
41.4385
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Bésta" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Crossbow
8 438 235
2Japanese (ja)
クロスボウ
1 931 019
3German (de)
Armbrust
1 678 707
4Russian (ru)
Арбалет
1 643 047
5Spanish (es)
Ballesta
1 218 384
6Polish (pl)
Kusza
783 905
7Portuguese (pt)
Besta (arma)
681 287
8Italian (it)
Balestra (arma)
644 672
9Chinese (zh)
607 485
10French (fr)
Arbalète
338 982
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Bésta" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Crossbow
78 790
2Russian (ru)
Арбалет
18 330
3Greek (el)
Βαλλίστρα
9 128
4Spanish (es)
Ballesta
5 906
5German (de)
Armbrust
5 087
6Japanese (ja)
クロスボウ
4 753
7French (fr)
Arbalète
4 245
8Chinese (zh)
3 501
9Portuguese (pt)
Besta (arma)
3 492
10Italian (it)
Balestra (arma)
2 677
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Bésta" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Crossbow
795
2German (de)
Armbrust
277
3French (fr)
Arbalète
225
4Italian (it)
Balestra (arma)
145
5Russian (ru)
Арбалет
124
6Dutch (nl)
Kruisboog
118
7Spanish (es)
Ballesta
112
8Japanese (ja)
クロスボウ
79
9Polish (pl)
Kusza
74
10Portuguese (pt)
Besta (arma)
66
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Bésta" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Crossbow
6
2French (fr)
Arbalète
6
3Arabic (ar)
قوس إفرنجية
1
4German (de)
Armbrust
1
5Indonesian (id)
Busur silang
1
6Italian (it)
Balestra (arma)
1
7Japanese (ja)
クロスボウ
1
8Russian (ru)
Арбалет
1
9Serbian (sr)
Самострел
1
10Azerbaijani (az)
Qundaqlı yay-ox
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Bésta" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Crossbow
945
2French (fr)
Arbalète
605
3German (de)
Armbrust
536
4Russian (ru)
Арбалет
489
5Japanese (ja)
クロスボウ
393
6Spanish (es)
Ballesta
366
7Chinese (zh)
345
8Italian (it)
Balestra (arma)
301
9Portuguese (pt)
Besta (arma)
235
10Ukrainian (uk)
Арбалет
221
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
Galician:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in July 2024:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
Galician:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قوس إفرنجية
azAzerbaijani
Qundaqlı yay-ox
beBelarusian
Арбалет
bgBulgarian
Арбалет
caCatalan
Ballesta
csCzech
Kuše
daDanish
Armbrøst
deGerman
Armbrust
elGreek
Βαλλίστρα
enEnglish
Crossbow
eoEsperanto
Arbalesto
esSpanish
Ballesta
etEstonian
Amb
euBasque
Balezta
faPersian
کمان زنبورکی
fiFinnish
Varsijousi
frFrench
Arbalète
glGalician
Bésta
heHebrew
קשת מוצלבת
hrCroatian
Samostrel
huHungarian
Számszeríj
hyArmenian
Աղեղնազեն
idIndonesian
Busur silang
itItalian
Balestra (arma)
jaJapanese
クロスボウ
kkKazakh
Арбалет
koKorean
쇠뇌
laLatin
Manuballista (sagittaria)
ltLithuanian
Arbaletas
msMalay
Busur silang
nlDutch
Kruisboog
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Armbrøst
noNorwegian
Armbrøst
plPolish
Kusza
ptPortuguese
Besta (arma)
roRomanian
Arbaletă
ruRussian
Арбалет
shSerbo-Croatian
Samostrel
simpleSimple English
Crossbow
skSlovak
Kuša
slSlovenian
Samostrel
srSerbian
Самострел
svSwedish
Armborst
thThai
หน้าไม้
trTurkish
Tatar yayı
ukUkrainian
Арбалет
uzUzbek
Arbalet
viVietnamese
Nỏ
zhChinese

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Galician:
#4175
01.2011
Global:
#5051
07.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Galician:
#141
11.2005
Global:
#1785
04.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Crossbow from Wikipedia articles about Arbalest, Bow, Bow and arrow, Quarrel and ōyumi. Whereas reading the article about Crossbow people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Gastraphetes, Arbalest, Ballista, Repeating crossbow and Quarrel.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

pl: Kusza
zh:
cs: Kuše
vi: Nỏ
ko: 쇠뇌
sk: Kuša
et: Amb
simple: Crossbow
gl: Bésta

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