Drinking straw

Quality:

Drinking straw - thin tube used to suck liquids from a container into the mouth of the drinker. Article “Drinking straw” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13 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 (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Drinking straw”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1473 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1328 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #250 in October 2008
• Global: #3983 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8060 in September 2008
• Global: #40139 in July 2018

There are 40 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) Drinking straw		100
2	Armenian (hy) Խմելու ձողիկ		77.5347
3	Italian (it) Cannuccia		74.2272
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ống hút		60.946
5	German (de) Trinkhalm		48.9769
6	Indonesian (id) Sedotan		44.6186
7	Chinese (zh) 吸管		42.9442
8	Dutch (nl) Rietje		42.8985
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sugerøyr		42.0864
10	Catalan (ca) Palla (begudes)		35.0479

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drinking straw		1 693 183
2	Spanish (es) Pajilla		573 006
3	Japanese (ja) ストロー		356 458
4	German (de) Trinkhalm		210 700
5	French (fr) Paille (ustensile)		155 902
6	Chinese (zh) 吸管		142 321
7	Arabic (ar) شفاطة (شرب)		105 607
8	Thai (th) หลอดดูด		86 318
9	Russian (ru) Соломинка		83 194
10	Indonesian (id) Sedotan		81 513

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drinking straw		3 505
2	Spanish (es) Pajilla		878
3	Japanese (ja) ストロー		518
4	German (de) Trinkhalm		475
5	Chinese (zh) 吸管		400
6	French (fr) Paille (ustensile)		300
7	Russian (ru) Соломинка		197
8	Italian (it) Cannuccia		124
9	Indonesian (id) Sedotan		95
10	Korean (ko) 빨대		91

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drinking straw		473
2	German (de) Trinkhalm		118
3	Spanish (es) Pajilla		79
4	French (fr) Paille (ustensile)		78
5	Hebrew (he) קשית שתייה		72
6	Italian (it) Cannuccia		66
7	Japanese (ja) ストロー		63
8	Dutch (nl) Rietje		59
9	Chinese (zh) 吸管		45
10	Danish (da) Sugerør		37

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Pajilla		7
2	English (en) Drinking straw		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Szívószál		1
4	Arabic (ar) شفاطة (شرب)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Palla (begudes)		0
6	Czech (cs) Slámka		0
7	Danish (da) Sugerør		0
8	German (de) Trinkhalm		0
9	Greek (el) Καλαμάκι πόσης		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Trinkŝalmo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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