黒船

Black Ships - historical name for European ships trading with Japan. Article “黒船” in Japanese Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.88 points.

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

Since the creation of article “黒船”, its content was written by 64 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 516 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 234 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 834 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #3310 in June 2004
• Global: #12849 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #7235 in November 2015
• Global: #26260 in March 2024

There are 21 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	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		47.1126
2	English (en) Black Ships		37.5284
3	Finnish (fi) Mustat laivat		32.5577
4	Turkish (tr) Kara Gemiler		32.2048
5	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		24.9002
6	French (fr) Navires noirs		24.4694
7	Czech (cs) Černé lodě		24.3654
8	Chinese (zh) 黑船		23.0706
9	Serbian (sr) Црни бродови		20.8906
10	Portuguese (pt) Barcos negros		19.5513

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Ships		1 534 574
2	Japanese (ja) 黒船		942 959
3	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		224 373
4	Russian (ru) Чёрные корабли		193 534
5	Chinese (zh) 黑船		171 795
6	French (fr) Navires noirs		153 037
7	Italian (it) Navi nere		110 159
8	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		98 501
9	Portuguese (pt) Barcos negros		43 576
10	Korean (ko) 흑선		34 707

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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 "黒船" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Ships		6 030
2	Japanese (ja) 黒船		2 283
3	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		992
4	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		960
5	Russian (ru) Чёрные корабли		939
6	Chinese (zh) 黑船		805
7	French (fr) Navires noirs		593
8	Italian (it) Navi nere		432
9	Korean (ko) 흑선		183
10	Portuguese (pt) Barcos negros		181

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Ships		160
2	Japanese (ja) 黒船		64
3	French (fr) Navires noirs		56
4	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		53
5	Italian (it) Navi nere		37
6	Russian (ru) Чёрные корабли		27
7	Chinese (zh) 黑船		22
8	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		19
9	Swedish (sv) De svarta skeppen		14
10	Korean (ko) 흑선		13

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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 "黒船" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Qara gəmilər		0
2	Czech (cs) Černé lodě		0
3	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		0
4	English (en) Black Ships		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Nigraj ŝipoj		0
6	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		0
7	Persian (fa) کشتی سیاه		0
8	Finnish (fi) Mustat laivat		0
9	French (fr) Navires noirs		0
10	Armenian (hy) Սև նավեր		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 "黒船" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 黒船		234
2	English (en) Black Ships		165
3	French (fr) Navires noirs		77
4	Portuguese (pt) Barcos negros		59
5	German (de) Schwarze Schiffe		56
6	Italian (it) Navi nere		40
7	Spanish (es) Barcos Negros		36
8	Chinese (zh) 黑船		34
9	Korean (ko) 흑선		26
10	Russian (ru) Чёрные корабли		24

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Qara gəmilər
cs	Czech Černé lodě
de	German Schwarze Schiffe
en	English Black Ships
eo	Esperanto Nigraj ŝipoj
es	Spanish Barcos Negros
fa	Persian کشتی سیاه
fi	Finnish Mustat laivat
fr	French Navires noirs
hy	Armenian Սև նավեր
id	Indonesian Kapal Hitam
it	Italian Navi nere
ja	Japanese 黒船
ko	Korean 흑선
ms	Malay Kapal Hitam
pt	Portuguese Barcos negros
ru	Russian Чёрные корабли
sr	Serbian Црни бродови
sv	Swedish De svarta skeppen
tr	Turkish Kara Gemiler
zh	Chinese 黑船

Best Rank

Japanese: #7235 11.2015

Global: #26260 03.2024

Best Rank

Japanese: #3310 06.2004

Global: #12849 06.2011

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