化鯨

Bake-kujira - mythical Japanese yōkai (ghost, phantom, or strange apparition) from western Japan. Article “化鯨” in Japanese Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “化鯨”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 102 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 584 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #14152 in October 2008
• Global: #48759 in December 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #120500 in January 2022
• Global: #99443 in December 2023

There are 11 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) Bake-kujira		36.2288
2	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		28.261
3	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		26.1392
4	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		25.4867
5	Chinese (zh) 化鲸		19.574
6	Indonesian (id) Bake-kujira		19.2302
7	French (fr) Bake-kujira		12.8538
8	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		3.4916
9	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		2.0229
10	Uzbek (uz) Bake-kujira		1.6761

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bake-kujira		411 785
2	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		140 637
3	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		48 394
4	Chinese (zh) 化鲸		26 987
5	French (fr) Bake-kujira		14 409
6	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		11 158
7	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		9 992
8	Portuguese (pt) Bake-kujira		9 859
9	Indonesian (id) Bake-kujira		2 850
10	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		1 000

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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 "化鯨" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bake-kujira		2 933
2	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		628
3	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		186
4	Chinese (zh) 化鲸		161
5	Indonesian (id) Bake-kujira		133
6	French (fr) Bake-kujira		132
7	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		96
8	Portuguese (pt) Bake-kujira		93
9	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		74
10	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bake-kujira		35
2	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		20
3	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		11
4	French (fr) Bake-kujira		8
5	Portuguese (pt) Bake-kujira		8
6	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		7
7	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		4
8	Chinese (zh) 化鲸		4
9	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		2
10	Uzbek (uz) Bake-kujira		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 "化鯨" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bake-kujira		1
2	French (fr) Bake-kujira		1
3	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		1
5	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		0
6	Indonesian (id) Bake-kujira		0
7	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Bake-kujira		0
9	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		0
10	Uzbek (uz) Bake-kujira		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 "化鯨" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bake-kujira		252
2	Indonesian (id) Bake-kujira		138
3	Russian (ru) Бакэ-кудзира		105
4	Ukrainian (uk) Баке-кудзіра		51
5	Chinese (zh) 化鲸		19
6	Japanese (ja) 化鯨		12
7	Spanish (es) Bake-kujira		3
8	French (fr) Bake-kujira		2
9	Italian (it) Bake-kujira		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Bake-kujira		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Bake-kujira
es	Spanish Bake-kujira
fr	French Bake-kujira
id	Indonesian Bake-kujira
it	Italian Bake-kujira
ja	Japanese 化鯨
pt	Portuguese Bake-kujira
ru	Russian Бакэ-кудзира
uk	Ukrainian Баке-кудзіра
uz	Uzbek Bake-kujira
zh	Chinese 化鲸

Best Rank

Japanese: #120500 01.2022

Global: #99443 12.2023

Best Rank

Japanese: #14152 10.2008

Global: #48759 12.2023

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