Defensive wall

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Defensive wall

Quality:

Defensive wall - fortification used to protect an area from potential aggressors. Article “Defensive wall” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.3 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 (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Defensive wall”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1079 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 59 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14786 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1086 in April 2014
  • Global: #2146 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1100 in January 2012
  • Global: #54562 in January 2008

There are 42 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)
Defensive wall
66.3475
2Armenian (hy)
Պաշտպանական պատ
65.1901
3Spanish (es)
Muralla
57.0642
4Serbian (sr)
Бедем
49.009
5Turkish (tr)
Sur
44.4529
6Slovenian (sl)
Obzidje
44.2316
7Danish (da)
Bymur
41.5432
8Catalan (ca)
Muralla
40.4405
9Norwegian (no)
Forsvarsmur
39.1621
10Japanese (ja)
城壁
36.8702
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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 "Defensive wall" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive wall
2 317 628
2Spanish (es)
Muralla
564 533
3Polish (pl)
Mur obronny
235 170
4Portuguese (pt)
Muralha
196 877
5Japanese (ja)
城壁
180 088
6French (fr)
Muraille
169 427
7Italian (it)
Mura (fortificazione)
142 409
8Turkish (tr)
Sur
113 116
9Russian (ru)
Городские стены
72 354
10Czech (cs)
Hradba
66 264
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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 "Defensive wall" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive wall
10 300
2Spanish (es)
Muralla
697
3Japanese (ja)
城壁
629
4Italian (it)
Mura (fortificazione)
509
5French (fr)
Muraille
441
6Polish (pl)
Mur obronny
412
7Portuguese (pt)
Muralha
352
8Simple English (simple)
Defensive wall
305
9Russian (ru)
Городские стены
268
10Turkish (tr)
Sur
262
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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 "Defensive wall" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defensive wall
330
2Italian (it)
Mura (fortificazione)
75
3Spanish (es)
Muralla
72
4French (fr)
Muraille
62
5Hebrew (he)
חומה
45
6Norwegian (no)
Forsvarsmur
45
7Polish (pl)
Mur obronny
44
8Russian (ru)
Городские стены
29
9Portuguese (pt)
Muralha
28
10Catalan (ca)
Muralla
25
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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 "Defensive wall" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defensive wall
2
2Russian (ru)
Городские стены
1
3Serbian (sr)
Бедем
1
4Arabic (ar)
سور (دفاع)
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Müdafiə divarı
0
6Belarusian (be)
Абарончая сцяна
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Отбранителна стена
0
8Catalan (ca)
Muralla
0
9Czech (cs)
Hradba
0
10Danish (da)
Bymur
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 "Defensive wall" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Defensive wall
1 993
2French (fr)
Muraille
1 233
3Spanish (es)
Muralla
1 145
4Portuguese (pt)
Muralha
1 134
5Italian (it)
Mura (fortificazione)
1 108
6Czech (cs)
Hradba
764
7Catalan (ca)
Muralla
731
8Hebrew (he)
חומה
700
9Slovenian (sl)
Obzidje
640
10Japanese (ja)
城壁
481
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Scores

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Global:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
سور (دفاع)
azAzerbaijani
Müdafiə divarı
beBelarusian
Абарончая сцяна
bgBulgarian
Отбранителна стена
caCatalan
Muralla
csCzech
Hradba
daDanish
Bymur
deGerman
Wehrmauer
enEnglish
Defensive wall
eoEsperanto
Remparo
esSpanish
Muralla
etEstonian
Kaitsevall
euBasque
Harresi
faPersian
دیوار دفاعی
fiFinnish
Kaupunginmuuri
frFrench
Muraille
glGalician
Muralla
heHebrew
חומה
hyArmenian
Պաշտպանական պատ
idIndonesian
Tembok pertahanan
itItalian
Mura (fortificazione)
jaJapanese
城壁
koKorean
방벽
laLatin
Moenia
msMalay
Tembok pertahanan
nlDutch
Weermuur
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Bymur
noNorwegian
Forsvarsmur
plPolish
Mur obronny
ptPortuguese
Muralha
ruRussian
Городские стены
shSerbo-Croatian
Bedem
simpleSimple English
Defensive wall
skSlovak
Hradby
slSlovenian
Obzidje
srSerbian
Бедем
thThai
กำแพงป้องกัน
trTurkish
Sur
ukUkrainian
Оборонний мур
urUrdu
فصیل
uzUzbek
Mudofaa devorlari
viVietnamese
Tường thành

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1100
01.2012
Global:
#54562
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1086
04.2014
Global:
#2146
10.2002

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 Defensive wall from Wikipedia articles about Jericho, Fortification, The Motax, Carcassonne and Castle. Whereas reading the article about Defensive wall people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Walls of Ávila, Walls of Constantinople, Hadrians Wall, Great Wall of China and Baghdad Gate.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 城壁
tr: Sur
cs: Hradba
sh: Bedem
sk: Hradby
ko: 방벽
da: Bymur
nn: Bymur
la: Moenia

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