Katana

Quality:

Katana - Japanese sword, that was used by samurai. Article “Katana” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6098^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8471^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7205^th most popular in all topics.

The 7788^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Katana”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8471^st place) and edited by 2905 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7788^th place).

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6005 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #328 in November 2018
• Global: #1854 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #442 in January 2015
• Global: #2111 in January 2008

There are 51 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) Katana		95.1162
2	German (de) Katana		69.0665
3	Turkish (tr) Katana		64.362
4	Latin (la) Katana		53.7291
5	Chinese (zh) 刀 (日本刀)		53.3615
6	Russian (ru) Катана		51.1468
7	Finnish (fi) Katana		49.1764
8	Portuguese (pt) Catana		46.2613
9	Catalan (ca) Catana		45.1208
10	Estonian (et) Katana		44.2048

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Katana		15 083 860
2	Russian (ru) Катана		3 860 677
3	German (de) Katana		2 984 765
4	Spanish (es) Katana		2 641 737
5	French (fr) Katana		1 574 947
6	Italian (it) Katana		1 444 245
7	Portuguese (pt) Catana		1 280 187
8	Polish (pl) Katana		1 095 080
9	Turkish (tr) Katana		518 231
10	Thai (th) คาตานะ		381 704

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) Katana		23 854
2	Russian (ru) Катана		5 923
3	German (de) Katana		4 905
4	Spanish (es) Katana		2 048
5	French (fr) Katana		1 880
6	Persian (fa) کاتانا		1 564
7	Italian (it) Katana		1 521
8	Polish (pl) Katana		1 251
9	Portuguese (pt) Catana		925
10	Chinese (zh) 刀 (日本刀)		578

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Katana		641
2	German (de) Katana		317
3	French (fr) Katana		232
4	Italian (it) Katana		183
5	Russian (ru) Катана		180
6	Spanish (es) Katana		144
7	Polish (pl) Katana		83
8	Portuguese (pt) Catana		79
9	Finnish (fi) Katana		76
10	Vietnamese (vi) Katana		66

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) Katana		2
2	French (fr) Katana		2
3	Catalan (ca) Catana		1
4	English (en) Katana		1
5	Basque (eu) Katana		1
6	Indonesian (id) Katana		1
7	Latin (la) Katana		1
8	Malay (ms) Katana		1
9	Serbian (sr) Катана		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Катана		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information