Black Rod

Black Rod - Parliamentary official. Article “Black Rod” in Dutch Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Black Rod”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 439 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 559 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #7885 in November 2023
• Global: #11101 in September 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #4020 in September 2022
• Global: #5298 in September 2022

There are 15 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) Black Rod		85.2822
2	Chinese (zh) 黑杖传令官		39.4693
3	Catalan (ca) Bastó Negre		37.4556
4	Thai (th) คทาดำ		29.3881
5	Italian (it) Black Rod		26.358
6	Persian (fa) رکن سیاه		21.9409
7	Japanese (ja) 黒杖官		20.0028
8	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		14.6129
9	French (fr) Black Rod		12.6239
10	Basque (eu) Makulu Beltza		12.4984

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Rod		2 142 507
2	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		164 153
3	Japanese (ja) 黒杖官		69 793
4	French (fr) Black Rod		52 326
5	Hungarian (hu) Black Rod		43 324
6	Chinese (zh) 黑杖传令官		33 333
7	Italian (it) Black Rod		31 620
8	Dutch (nl) Black Rod		20 748
9	Spanish (es) Bastón Negro		17 633
10	Portuguese (pt) Cavalheiro Ostiário do Bastão Negro		10 439

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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 "Black Rod" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Rod		6 960
2	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		385
3	Japanese (ja) 黒杖官		345
4	Chinese (zh) 黑杖传令官		238
5	French (fr) Black Rod		166
6	Italian (it) Black Rod		71
7	Spanish (es) Bastón Negro		51
8	Dutch (nl) Black Rod		48
9	Hebrew (he) המוט השחור		45
10	Thai (th) คทาดำ		40

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

Language versions of the article "Black Rod" 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 Rod		262
2	French (fr) Black Rod		35
3	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		29
4	Hebrew (he) המוט השחור		28
5	Italian (it) Black Rod		19
6	Japanese (ja) 黒杖官		16
7	Dutch (nl) Black Rod		15
8	Hungarian (hu) Black Rod		10
9	Spanish (es) Bastón Negro		6
10	Chinese (zh) 黑杖传令官		6

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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 "Black Rod" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Bastó Negre		0
2	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		0
3	English (en) Black Rod		0
4	Spanish (es) Bastón Negro		0
5	Basque (eu) Makulu Beltza		0
6	Persian (fa) رکن سیاه		0
7	French (fr) Black Rod		0
8	Hebrew (he) המוט השחור		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Black Rod		0
10	Italian (it) Black Rod		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 "Black Rod" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Black Rod		297
2	Japanese (ja) 黒杖官		58
3	French (fr) Black Rod		45
4	German (de) Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod		42
5	Italian (it) Black Rod		27
6	Chinese (zh) 黑杖传令官		21
7	Hebrew (he) המוט השחור		18
8	Spanish (es) Bastón Negro		13
9	Portuguese (pt) Cavalheiro Ostiário do Bastão Negro		12
10	Catalan (ca) Bastó Negre		8

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bastó Negre
de	German Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
en	English Black Rod
es	Spanish Bastón Negro
eu	Basque Makulu Beltza
fa	Persian رکن سیاه
fr	French Black Rod
he	Hebrew המוט השחור
hu	Hungarian Black Rod
it	Italian Black Rod
ja	Japanese 黒杖官
nl	Dutch Black Rod
pt	Portuguese Cavalheiro Ostiário do Bastão Negro
th	Thai คทาดำ
zh	Chinese 黑杖传令官

Best Rank

Dutch: #4020 09.2022

Global: #5298 09.2022

Best Rank

Dutch: #7885 11.2023

Global: #11101 09.2019

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