狐火

Kitsunebi - atmospheric ghost lights in Japanese folklore. Article “狐火” in Japanese Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “狐火” was edited by 2 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “狐火”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 92 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 80 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 649 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #12206 in July 2008
• Global: #138598 in February 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #21167 in May 2012
• Global: #211141 in May 2012

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	English (en) Kitsunebi		63.5841
2	Chinese (zh) 狐火		59.8412
3	German (de) Kitsunebi		36.5999
4	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		36.3377
5	Japanese (ja) 狐火		35.9868
6	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		31.6355
7	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		22.5582
8	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		22.2392
9	French (fr) Kitsunebi		18.5341
10	Korean (ko) 여우불		2.6178

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 狐火		584 058
2	English (en) Kitsunebi		273 261
3	French (fr) Kitsunebi		21 966
4	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		19 518
5	Chinese (zh) 狐火		6 911
6	Korean (ko) 여우불		6 769
7	German (de) Kitsunebi		5 049
8	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		2 601
9	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		1 063
10	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		58

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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 "狐火" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kitsunebi		2 307
2	Japanese (ja) 狐火		1 568
3	Chinese (zh) 狐火		200
4	German (de) Kitsunebi		98
5	French (fr) Kitsunebi		91
6	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		68
7	Korean (ko) 여우불		41
8	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		26
9	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		18
10	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kitsunebi		30
2	Japanese (ja) 狐火		20
3	French (fr) Kitsunebi		16
4	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		10
5	German (de) Kitsunebi		6
6	Chinese (zh) 狐火		3
7	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		2
8	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		2
9	Korean (ko) 여우불		2
10	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		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 "狐火" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 狐火		2
2	German (de) Kitsunebi		0
3	English (en) Kitsunebi		0
4	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		0
5	French (fr) Kitsunebi		0
6	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		0
7	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		0
8	Korean (ko) 여우불		0
9	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		0
10	Chinese (zh) 狐火		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 "狐火" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Kitsunebi		253
2	Indonesian (id) Kitsunebi		139
3	Japanese (ja) 狐火		80
4	Persian (fa) کیتسونه‌بی		69
5	Korean (ko) 여우불		60
6	Italian (it) Kitsunebi		15
7	Chinese (zh) 狐火		15
8	German (de) Kitsunebi		11
9	French (fr) Kitsunebi		7
10	Malay (ms) Kitsunebi		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Kitsunebi
en	English Kitsunebi
fa	Persian کیتسونه‌بی
fr	French Kitsunebi
id	Indonesian Kitsunebi
it	Italian Kitsunebi
ja	Japanese 狐火
ko	Korean 여우불
ms	Malay Kitsunebi
zh	Chinese 狐火

Best Rank

Japanese: #21167 05.2012

Global: #211141 05.2012

Best Rank

Japanese: #12206 07.2008

Global: #138598 02.2017

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