Baliza

Beacon - marker to attract attention (used for navigation, or in war as a signalling device, or as a signally device for natural disaster like fire). Article “Baliza” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 8.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Baliza”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 516 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 141 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 3312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #41709 in March 2026
• Global: #379 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #22772 in January 2012
• Global: #36952 in March 2017

There are 23 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, 2026 (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) Beacon		59.4614
2	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		34.0531
3	Dutch (nl) Baken		31.9478
4	Armenian (hy) Խութանշան		27.35
5	Arabic (ar) مرشد لاسلكي		21.6501
6	Hebrew (he) משואה (איתות)		21.0635
7	Kazakh (kk) Бакен		18.581
8	Japanese (ja) ビーコン		18.0288
9	Swedish (sv) Signalanordning		17.9599
10	Chinese (zh) 信标		17.1346

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beacon		2 959 997
2	Japanese (ja) ビーコン		883 581
3	Spanish (es) Baliza		501 188
4	Russian (ru) Бакен		310 593
5	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		178 143
6	Portuguese (pt) Baliza		94 249
7	Dutch (nl) Baken		91 988
8	Korean (ko) 비콘		91 518
9	Hebrew (he) משואה (איתות)		36 603
10	Indonesian (id) Sinyal pandu		16 762

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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 "Baliza" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beacon		3 874
2	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		931
3	Japanese (ja) ビーコン		799
4	Russian (ru) Бакен		655
5	Spanish (es) Baliza		305
6	Dutch (nl) Baken		201
7	Chinese (zh) 信标		181
8	Korean (ko) 비콘		120
9	Portuguese (pt) Baliza		85
10	Hebrew (he) משואה (איתות)		71

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Beacon		215
2	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		71
3	Dutch (nl) Baken		42
4	Japanese (ja) ビーコン		36
5	Spanish (es) Baliza		34
6	Hebrew (he) משואה (איתות)		33
7	Russian (ru) Бакен		33
8	Catalan (ca) Balisa		7
9	Indonesian (id) Sinyal pandu		6
10	Ukrainian (uk) Бакен		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 "Baliza" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Balisa		1
2	English (en) Beacon		1
3	Arabic (ar) مرشد لاسلكي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Baken		0
5	Belarusian (be) Бакен		0
6	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		0
7	Spanish (es) Baliza		0
8	Basque (eu) Baliza		0
9	French (fr) Balise (transport)		0
10	Hebrew (he) משואה (איתות)		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 "Baliza" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Beacon		1 458
2	Japanese (ja) ビーコン		243
3	Korean (ko) 비콘		218
4	Arabic (ar) مرشد لاسلكي		173
5	Basque (eu) Baliza		167
6	German (de) Bake (Seezeichen)		162
7	Dutch (nl) Baken		146
8	Spanish (es) Baliza		142
9	Portuguese (pt) Baliza		141
10	Chinese (zh) 信标		112

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مرشد لاسلكي
az	Azerbaijani Baken
be	Belarusian Бакен
ca	Catalan Balisa
de	German Bake (Seezeichen)
en	English Beacon
es	Spanish Baliza
eu	Basque Baliza
fr	French Balise (transport)
he	Hebrew משואה (איתות)
hi	Hindi ध्यानाकर्षक बत्ती
hy	Armenian Խութանշան
id	Indonesian Sinyal pandu
ja	Japanese ビーコン
kk	Kazakh Бакен
ko	Korean 비콘
nl	Dutch Baken
pt	Portuguese Baliza
ru	Russian Бакен
sv	Swedish Signalanordning
uk	Ukrainian Бакен
uz	Uzbek Baken
zh	Chinese 信标

Best Rank

Portuguese: #22772 01.2012

Global: #36952 03.2017

Best Rank

Portuguese: #41709 03.2026

Global: #379 05.2001

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