Kalam

Reed pen - type of writing implement. Article “Kalam” in Indonesian Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Kalam”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Indonesian Wikipedia and edited by 324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 96 times in Indonesian Wikipedia and cited 843 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Indonesian): #3383 in June 2016
• Global: #41765 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Indonesian): #4830 in January 2026
• Global: #148573 in January 2026

There are 24 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, 2026 (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) Reed pen		37.6773
2	Malay (ms) Kalam		35.332
3	Polish (pl) Calamus (starożytność)		27.7684
4	Catalan (ca) Càlam (escriptura)		27.064
5	German (de) Schreibrohr		26.9032
6	Korean (ko) 리드펜		25.1727
7	Arabic (ar) يراع		24.6841
8	Persian (fa) قلم‌نی		24.6137
9	Japanese (ja) 葦ペン		23.1275
10	Galician (gl) Cálamo		21.9831

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reed pen		428 933
2	French (fr) Calame		392 721
3	Spanish (es) Cálamo (escritura)		278 517
4	Italian (it) Calamo (scrittura)		80 382
5	German (de) Schreibrohr		78 154
6	Portuguese (pt) Cálamo		59 102
7	Indonesian (id) Kalam		52 427
8	Chinese (zh) 蘆葦筆		35 824
9	Persian (fa) قلم‌نی		34 466
10	Japanese (ja) 葦ペン		32 866

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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 "Kalam" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reed pen		2 184
2	French (fr) Calame		889
3	Spanish (es) Cálamo (escritura)		586
4	Japanese (ja) 葦ペン		318
5	German (de) Schreibrohr		233
6	Italian (it) Calamo (scrittura)		225
7	Chinese (zh) 蘆葦筆		153
8	Portuguese (pt) Cálamo		118
9	Persian (fa) قلم‌نی		112
10	Polish (pl) Calamus (starożytność)		77

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Calame		64
2	German (de) Schreibrohr		52
3	English (en) Reed pen		49
4	Spanish (es) Cálamo (escritura)		24
5	Italian (it) Calamo (scrittura)		19
6	Catalan (ca) Càlam (escriptura)		18
7	Dutch (nl) Rietpen		15
8	Galician (gl) Cálamo		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Cálamo		9
10	Persian (fa) قلم‌نی		8

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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 "Kalam" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reed pen		1
2	Arabic (ar) يراع		0
3	Catalan (ca) Càlam (escriptura)		0
4	German (de) Schreibrohr		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Kalamo		0
6	Spanish (es) Cálamo (escritura)		0
7	Basque (eu) Kalamu (idazketa)		0
8	Persian (fa) قلم‌نی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Ruokokynä		0
10	French (fr) Calame		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 "Kalam" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Calame		159
2	English (en) Reed pen		99
3	Indonesian (id) Kalam		96
4	Arabic (ar) يراع		84
5	German (de) Schreibrohr		57
6	Korean (ko) 리드펜		47
7	Spanish (es) Cálamo (escritura)		44
8	Catalan (ca) Càlam (escriptura)		39
9	Russian (ru) Каламос (письменная принадлежность)		35
10	Chinese (zh) 蘆葦筆		29

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic يراع
ca	Catalan Càlam (escriptura)
de	German Schreibrohr
en	English Reed pen
eo	Esperanto Kalamo
es	Spanish Cálamo (escritura)
eu	Basque Kalamu (idazketa)
fa	Persian قلم‌نی
fi	Finnish Ruokokynä
fr	French Calame
gl	Galician Cálamo
hu	Hungarian Nádtoll
id	Indonesian Kalam
it	Italian Calamo (scrittura)
ja	Japanese 葦ペン
ko	Korean 리드펜
ms	Malay Kalam
nl	Dutch Rietpen
pl	Polish Calamus (starożytność)
pt	Portuguese Cálamo
ru	Russian Каламос (письменная принадлежность)
simple	Simple English Reed pen
tr	Turkish Kamış kalem
zh	Chinese 蘆葦筆

Best Rank

Indonesian: #4830 01.2026

Global: #148573 01.2026

Best Rank

Indonesian: #3383 06.2016

Global: #41765 01.2004

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