Wetsteen

Sharpening stone - stone used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing. Article “Wetsteen” in Dutch Wikipedia has 6.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Wetsteen”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 691 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 22 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 1594 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #134 in December 2003
• Global: #9057 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #41778 in September 2013
• Global: #74305 in July 2013

There are 30 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) Sharpening stone		55.1707
2	Estonian (et) Luisk		35.792
3	Persian (fa) سنگ تیزکننده		35.7426
4	Latin (la) Cos (instrumentum)		33.4662
5	German (de) Wetzstein		32.0482
6	Swedish (sv) Bryne		29.5647
7	Japanese (ja) 砥石		28.8162
8	Russian (ru) Оселок		28.2692
9	French (fr) Pierre à aiguiser		25.1705
10	Finnish (fi) Kovasin		24.133

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sharpening stone		1 918 933
2	Japanese (ja) 砥石		689 449
3	Spanish (es) Piedra de afilar		304 804
4	Italian (it) Cote		155 269
5	French (fr) Pierre à aiguiser		151 593
6	Russian (ru) Оселок		150 439
7	German (de) Wetzstein		120 722
8	Swedish (sv) Bryne		108 376
9	Portuguese (pt) Pedra de amolar		85 982
10	Polish (pl) Osełka		83 374

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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 "Wetsteen" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sharpening stone		5 882
2	Japanese (ja) 砥石		1 050
3	Russian (ru) Оселок		542
4	Spanish (es) Piedra de afilar		371
5	Italian (it) Cote		363
6	Chinese (zh) 磨刀石		312
7	German (de) Wetzstein		308
8	French (fr) Pierre à aiguiser		290
9	Polish (pl) Osełka		189
10	Finnish (fi) Kovasin		165

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sharpening stone		179
2	German (de) Wetzstein		64
3	Japanese (ja) 砥石		54
4	French (fr) Pierre à aiguiser		51
5	Italian (it) Cote		44
6	Dutch (nl) Wetsteen		38
7	Swedish (sv) Bryne		38
8	Norwegian (no) Brynestein		33
9	Russian (ru) Оселок		32
10	Finnish (fi) Kovasin		21

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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 "Wetsteen" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sharpening stone		8
2	Arabic (ar) حجر سن		1
3	Catalan (ca) Pedra d'esmolar		0
4	Czech (cs) Brousek		0
5	German (de) Wetzstein		0
6	Spanish (es) Piedra de afilar		0
7	Estonian (et) Luisk		0
8	Basque (eu) Zorroztarri		0
9	Persian (fa) سنگ تیزکننده		0
10	Finnish (fi) Kovasin		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 "Wetsteen" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sharpening stone		337
2	Japanese (ja) 砥石		291
3	Swedish (sv) Bryne		210
4	Arabic (ar) حجر سن		180
5	German (de) Wetzstein		97
6	Chinese (zh) 磨刀石		58
7	French (fr) Pierre à aiguiser		49
8	Catalan (ca) Pedra d'esmolar		38
9	Italian (it) Cote		37
10	Spanish (es) Piedra de afilar		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حجر سن
ca	Catalan Pedra d'esmolar
cs	Czech Brousek
de	German Wetzstein
en	English Sharpening stone
es	Spanish Piedra de afilar
et	Estonian Luisk
eu	Basque Zorroztarri
fa	Persian سنگ تیزکننده
fi	Finnish Kovasin
fr	French Pierre à aiguiser
gl	Galician Pedra de afiar
id	Indonesian Batu asah
it	Italian Cote
ja	Japanese 砥石
kk	Kazakh Жануыш
ko	Korean 숫돌
la	Latin Cos (instrumentum)
lt	Lithuanian Galąstuvas
nl	Dutch Wetsteen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Brynestein
no	Norwegian Brynestein
pl	Polish Osełka
pt	Portuguese Pedra de amolar
ru	Russian Оселок
sr	Serbian Брус (алатка)
sv	Swedish Bryne
uk	Ukrainian Брусок (напилок)
vi	Vietnamese Đá mài
zh	Chinese 磨刀石

Best Rank

Dutch: #41778 09.2013

Global: #74305 07.2013

Best Rank

Dutch: #134 12.2003

Global: #9057 12.2003

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