Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs - 1977 studio album by Tom Waits. Article “Foreign Affairs” in Korean Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Foreign Affairs”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Korean Wikipedia and edited by 158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in Korean Wikipedia and cited 369 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Korean): #9464 in December 2023
• Global: #90755 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Korean): #128880 in January 2010
• Global: #433799 in March 2018

There are 14 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) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		31.0445
2	Korean (ko) Foreign Affairs		26.6539
3	Spanish (es) Foreign Affairs (álbum)		20.4177
4	Ukrainian (uk) Foreign Affairs		18.006
5	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		15.0372
6	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		12.5435
7	Czech (cs) Foreign Affairs (album)		12.3962
8	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		9.6965
9	Russian (ru) Foreign Affairs (альбом)		6.1314
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Foreign Affairs av Tom Waits		4.0935

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		259 539
2	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		29 957
3	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		26 823
4	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		17 874
5	Russian (ru) Foreign Affairs (альбом)		11 524
6	Spanish (es) Foreign Affairs (álbum)		7 432
7	Swedish (sv) Foreign Affairs (musikalbum)		4 255
8	Norwegian (no) Foreign Affairs (album)		3 250
9	Lithuanian (lt) Foreign Affairs		2 038
10	Czech (cs) Foreign Affairs (album)		1 942

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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 "Foreign Affairs" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		2 055
2	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		115
3	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		82
4	Russian (ru) Foreign Affairs (альбом)		64
5	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		31
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Foreign Affairs av Tom Waits		23
7	Swedish (sv) Foreign Affairs (musikalbum)		14
8	Spanish (es) Foreign Affairs (álbum)		10
9	Czech (cs) Foreign Affairs (album)		9
10	Korean (ko) Foreign Affairs		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		67
2	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		24
3	Norwegian (no) Foreign Affairs (album)		21
4	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		14
5	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		6
6	Russian (ru) Foreign Affairs (альбом)		5
7	Swedish (sv) Foreign Affairs (musikalbum)		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Foreign Affairs		4
9	Lithuanian (lt) Foreign Affairs		3
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Foreign Affairs av Tom Waits		3

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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 "Foreign Affairs" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		1
2	Czech (cs) Foreign Affairs (album)		0
3	Spanish (es) Foreign Affairs (álbum)		0
4	Basque (eu) Foreign Affairs		0
5	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		0
6	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		0
7	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		0
8	Korean (ko) Foreign Affairs		0
9	Lithuanian (lt) Foreign Affairs		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Foreign Affairs av Tom Waits		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 "Foreign Affairs" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)		78
2	Ukrainian (uk) Foreign Affairs		73
3	Korean (ko) Foreign Affairs		36
4	Italian (it) Foreign Affairs (album)		35
5	Czech (cs) Foreign Affairs (album)		30
6	Russian (ru) Foreign Affairs (альбом)		30
7	Swedish (sv) Foreign Affairs (musikalbum)		27
8	Japanese (ja) 異国の出来事 (アルバム)		21
9	French (fr) Foreign Affairs (album)		13
10	Basque (eu) Foreign Affairs		8

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Foreign Affairs (album)
en	English Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)
es	Spanish Foreign Affairs (álbum)
eu	Basque Foreign Affairs
fr	French Foreign Affairs (album)
it	Italian Foreign Affairs (album)
ja	Japanese 異国の出来事 (アルバム)
ko	Korean Foreign Affairs
lt	Lithuanian Foreign Affairs
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Foreign Affairs av Tom Waits
no	Norwegian Foreign Affairs (album)
ru	Russian Foreign Affairs (альбом)
sv	Swedish Foreign Affairs (musikalbum)
uk	Ukrainian Foreign Affairs

Best Rank

Korean: #128880 01.2010

Global: #433799 03.2018

Best Rank

Korean: #9464 12.2023

Global: #90755 04.2012

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