Ballade

Ballade - form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry; poetic form (forme fixe); musical chanson form. Article “Ballade” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Ballade”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 202 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 831 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1831 in March 2010
• Global: #15819 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9179 in April 2008
• Global: #298797 in December 2024

There are 11 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	Estonian (et) Ballade		35.5702
2	Dutch (nl) Ballade		31.3325
3	Polish (pl) Ballade		26.0414
4	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		21.2119
5	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		9.4902
6	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		6.9047
7	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		6.6854
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ballade		1.3856
9	Simple English (simple) Ballade		0.6073
10	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		0.1972

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		192 151
2	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		190 309
3	Dutch (nl) Ballade		177 524
4	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		31 229
5	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		18 105
6	Korean (ko) 발라드 (프랑스 문학)		10 675
7	Simple English (simple) Ballade		7 303
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ballade		5 956
9	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		4 945
10	Polish (pl) Ballade		1 421

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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 "Ballade" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		915
2	Dutch (nl) Ballade		266
3	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		220
4	Simple English (simple) Ballade		190
5	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		120
6	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		53
7	Vietnamese (vi) Ballade		27
8	Estonian (et) Ballade		20
9	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		19
10	Korean (ko) 발라드 (프랑스 문학)		14

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Ballade		72
2	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		60
3	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		15
4	Simple English (simple) Ballade		15
5	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		10
6	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		8
7	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		7
8	Korean (ko) 발라드 (프랑스 문학)		6
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ballade		6
10	Estonian (et) Ballade		2

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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 "Ballade" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		0
2	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		0
3	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		0
4	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		0
5	Estonian (et) Ballade		0
6	Korean (ko) 발라드 (프랑스 문학)		0
7	Dutch (nl) Ballade		0
8	Polish (pl) Ballade		0
9	Simple English (simple) Ballade		0
10	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		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 "Ballade" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Ballade		402
2	English (en) Ballade (forme fixe)		320
3	Greek (el) Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)		40
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ballade		18
5	Czech (cs) Villonská balada		15
6	Arabic (ar) بالاد (شعر)		14
7	Estonian (et) Ballade		13
8	Turkish (tr) Balat (edebiyat)		4
9	Simple English (simple) Ballade		3
10	Korean (ko) 발라드 (프랑스 문학)		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بالاد (شعر)
cs	Czech Villonská balada
el	Greek Μπαλάντα (ποίηση)
en	English Ballade (forme fixe)
et	Estonian Ballade
ko	Korean 발라드 (프랑스 문학)
nl	Dutch Ballade
pl	Polish Ballade
simple	Simple English Ballade
tr	Turkish Balat (edebiyat)
vi	Vietnamese Ballade

Best Rank

Simple English: #9179 04.2008

Global: #298797 12.2024

Best Rank

Simple English: #1831 03.2010

Global: #15819 12.2003

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