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Anchor

Quality:

Anchor - mooring device. Article “Anchor” in Simple English Wikipedia has 52.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Anchor”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1902 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7145 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #296 in June 2009
  • Global: #684 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1003 in July 2008
  • Global: #13628 in June 2013

There are 48 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Anchor
70.197
2Estonian (et)
Ankur
68.8871
3German (de)
Anker
67.5626
4French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
60.4
5Ukrainian (uk)
Якір
58.1599
6Japanese (ja)
55.5648
7Russian (ru)
Якорь
53.0657
8Simple English (simple)
Anchor
52.6578
9Malay (ms)
Sauh
47.2776
10Arabic (ar)
مرساة
37.3305
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Anchor" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Anchor
6 638 217
2German (de)
Anker
894 854
3Japanese (ja)
883 253
4Spanish (es)
Ancla
871 831
5Russian (ru)
Якорь
661 287
6French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
419 186
7Italian (it)
Ancora
397 773
8Polish (pl)
Kotwica
301 327
9Portuguese (pt)
Âncora
209 681
10Swedish (sv)
Ankare
178 131
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Anchor" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Anchor
10 987
2Japanese (ja)
2 333
3German (de)
Anker
2 249
4Russian (ru)
Якорь
2 013
5French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
1 146
6Spanish (es)
Ancla
880
7Italian (it)
Ancora
797
8Chinese (zh)
721
9Polish (pl)
Kotwica
638
10Simple English (simple)
Anchor
382
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Anchor" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Anchor
458
2German (de)
Anker
216
3French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
154
4Russian (ru)
Якорь
103
5Italian (it)
Ancora
89
6Dutch (nl)
Anker (schip)
73
7Japanese (ja)
67
8Hebrew (he)
עוגן
63
9Norwegian (no)
Anker
61
10Spanish (es)
Ancla
55
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Anchor" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Якорь
2
2English (en)
Anchor
1
3French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
1
4Italian (it)
Ancora
1
5Norwegian (no)
Anker
1
6Ukrainian (uk)
Якір
1
7Arabic (ar)
مرساة
0
8Azerbaijani (az)
Lövbər
0
9Belarusian (be)
Якар
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
Котва
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Anchor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Anchor
1 417
2French (fr)
Ancre (mouillage)
550
3Russian (ru)
Якорь
440
4German (de)
Anker
439
5Italian (it)
Ancora
374
6Japanese (ja)
372
7Spanish (es)
Ancla
289
8Ukrainian (uk)
Якір
277
9Polish (pl)
Kotwica
259
10Dutch (nl)
Anker (schip)
230
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مرساة
azAzerbaijani
Lövbər
beBelarusian
Якар
bgBulgarian
Котва
caCatalan
Àncora
csCzech
Kotva
daDanish
Anker (søfart)
deGerman
Anker
elGreek
Άγκυρα πλοίου
enEnglish
Anchor
eoEsperanto
Ankro (ŝipo)
esSpanish
Ancla
etEstonian
Ankur
euBasque
Aingura
faPersian
لنگر
fiFinnish
Ankkuri
frFrench
Ancre (mouillage)
glGalician
Áncora
heHebrew
עוגן
hrCroatian
Sidro
huHungarian
Horgony
hyArmenian
Խարիսխ
idIndonesian
Jangkar
itItalian
Ancora
jaJapanese
kkKazakh
Зәкір
koKorean
laLatin
Ancora
ltLithuanian
Inkaras
msMalay
Sauh
nlDutch
Anker (schip)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Anker for fartøy
noNorwegian
Anker
plPolish
Kotwica
ptPortuguese
Âncora
roRomanian
Ancoră
ruRussian
Якорь
shSerbo-Croatian
Sidro
simpleSimple English
Anchor
skSlovak
Lodná kotva
slSlovenian
Sidro
srSerbian
Сидро
svSwedish
Ankare
taTamil
நங்கூரம்
trTurkish
Çapa (denizcilik)
ukUkrainian
Якір
viVietnamese
Neo
zhChinese

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1003
07.2008
Global:
#13628
06.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#296
06.2009
Global:
#684
08.2001

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Anchor from Wikipedia articles about Tōya Maru disaster, Stockless anchor, Warping, Murder of Laci Peterson and Lightvessel. Whereas reading the article about Anchor people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Stockless anchor, Drogue, Anker, Anchor and Mooring.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Anchor
de: Anker
ja:
es: Ancla
it: Ancora
sv: Ankare
zh:
no: Anker
cs: Kotva
simple: Anchor
ko:
vi: Neo
ms: Sauh
et: Ankur
hr: Sidro
sh: Sidro
la: Ancora
sl: Sidro

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