Toccare ferro

Knocking on wood - apotropaic tradition believed to ward off evil. Article “Toccare ferro” in Italian Wikipedia has 22.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Toccare ferro”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 368 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 245 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #35969 in February 2020
• Global: #46982 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #113404 in May 2019
• Global: #67563 in October 2016

There are 10 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	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		25.8151
2	English (en) Knocking on wood		24.5898
3	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		24.2653
4	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		23.6057
5	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		22.3379
6	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		13.7264
7	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		12.4632
8	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		6.0187
9	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		5.6826
10	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		2.3187

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knocking on wood		2 611 815
2	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		75 494
3	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		59 413
4	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		32 237
5	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		31 225
6	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		30 439
7	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		8 878
8	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		8 524
9	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		2 170
10	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		146

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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 "Toccare ferro" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knocking on wood		9 066
2	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		218
3	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		195
4	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		189
5	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		176
6	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		147
7	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		84
8	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		73
9	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		25
10	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		3

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Knocking on wood		268
2	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		40
3	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		17
4	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		13
5	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		10
6	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		9
7	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		4
8	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		3
9	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		3
10	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		1

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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 "Toccare ferro" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Knocking on wood		1
2	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		1
3	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		0
4	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		0
5	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		0
6	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		0
7	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		0
8	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		0
9	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		0
10	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		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 "Toccare ferro" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Knocking on wood		170
2	Persian (fa) زدن به تخته		50
3	Hebrew (he) הקשה בעץ		9
4	Dutch (nl) Afkloppen		4
5	Norwegian (no) Bank i bordet		4
6	Italian (it) Toccare ferro		3
7	Basque (eu) Zura ukitze		2
8	Romanian (ro) Baterea în lemn		2
9	Turkish (tr) Tahtaya vurmak		1
10	Chinese (zh) 敲木頭		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Knocking on wood
eu	Basque Zura ukitze
fa	Persian زدن به تخته
he	Hebrew הקשה בעץ
it	Italian Toccare ferro
nl	Dutch Afkloppen
no	Norwegian Bank i bordet
ro	Romanian Baterea în lemn
tr	Turkish Tahtaya vurmak
zh	Chinese 敲木頭

Best Rank

Italian: #113404 05.2019

Global: #67563 10.2016

Best Rank

Italian: #35969 02.2020

Global: #46982 01.2010

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