Balu

Widow - woman whose spouse has died. Article “Balu” in Malay Wikipedia has 73.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balu”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 609 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 3676 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #4574 in December 2024
• Global: #18393 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #1755 in May 2022
• Global: #37078 in July 2010

There are 27 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	Malay (ms) Balu		73.9443
2	English (en) Widow		68.405
3	Greek (el) Χηρεία		54.9755
4	Bulgarian (bg) Вдовица		28.1602
5	Finnish (fi) Leski		27.375
6	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		24.7642
7	Persian (fa) بیوه		23.5452
8	Norwegian (no) Enke		21.6085
9	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		20.8788
10	Croatian (hr) Udovica		20.8436

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Widow		2 840 118
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		2 285 991
3	Arabic (ar) أرملة		204 954
4	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		164 081
5	Persian (fa) بیوه		124 886
6	Vietnamese (vi) Góa		90 764
7	Swedish (sv) Änka		89 216
8	Korean (ko) 과부		68 188
9	Finnish (fi) Leski		65 591
10	Hindi (hi) विधवा		54 835

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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 "Balu" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Widow		9 665
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		4 828
3	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		957
4	Persian (fa) بیوه		527
5	Vietnamese (vi) Góa		487
6	Korean (ko) 과부		395
7	Malay (ms) Balu		276
8	Arabic (ar) أرملة		237
9	French (fr) Veuf		187
10	Thai (th) ม่าย		170

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Widow		273
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		53
3	Norwegian (no) Enke		32
4	Finnish (fi) Leski		25
5	Persian (fa) بیوه		24
6	Hungarian (hu) Özvegy		23
7	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		20
8	Simple English (simple) Widow		20
9	Arabic (ar) أرملة		19
10	Hindi (hi) विधवा		19

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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 "Balu" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Χηρεία		1
2	Arabic (ar) أرملة		0
3	Belarusian (be) Удава		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Вдовица		0
5	Czech (cs) Vdova		0
6	English (en) Widow		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		0
8	Estonian (et) Lesk		0
9	Persian (fa) بیوه		0
10	Finnish (fi) Leski		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 "Balu" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Widow		1 293
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		596
3	Swedish (sv) Änka		213
4	Simple English (simple) Widow		180
5	Arabic (ar) أرملة		148
6	Czech (cs) Vdova		139
7	Persian (fa) بیوه		132
8	Finnish (fi) Leski		101
9	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		101
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Udovica		101

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أرملة
be	Belarusian Удава
bg	Bulgarian Вдовица
cs	Czech Vdova
el	Greek Χηρεία
en	English Widow
eo	Esperanto Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj
et	Estonian Lesk
fa	Persian بیوه
fi	Finnish Leski
fr	French Veuf
hi	Hindi विधवा
hr	Croatian Udovica
hu	Hungarian Özvegy
id	Indonesian Duda dan janda
ja	Japanese 寡婦
kk	Kazakh Жесір
ko	Korean 과부
ms	Malay Balu
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Enkje
no	Norwegian Enke
sh	Serbo-Croatian Udovica
simple	Simple English Widow
sv	Swedish Änka
th	Thai ม่าย
ur	Urdu بیوہ
vi	Vietnamese Góa

Best Rank

Malay: #1755 05.2022

Global: #37078 07.2010

Best Rank

Malay: #4574 12.2024

Global: #18393 11.2011

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