Moat

Quality:

Moat - dry or watery ditch surrounding a fortification or town. Article “Moat” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 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 “Moat”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1181 in May 2016
• Global: #5453 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3766 in May 2014
• Global: #40801 in January 2013

There are 47 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) Moat		59.5128
2	Catalan (ca) Fossat		52.0356
3	Slovenian (sl) Obrambni jarek		50.6726
4	Spanish (es) Foso		49.8697
5	Turkish (tr) Hendek		40.2631
6	Chinese (zh) 護城河		37.4935
7	Thai (th) คูเมือง		36.9915
8	Serbian (sr) Шанац (утврђење)		36.1322
9	Bulgarian (bg) Ров		35.8897
10	Russian (ru) Ров		34.8226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moat		2 683 029
2	Japanese (ja) 堀		521 277
3	French (fr) Douve (fossé)		315 931
4	Polish (pl) Fosa		269 477
5	Russian (ru) Ров		249 818
6	Spanish (es) Foso		245 748
7	Portuguese (pt) Fosso		124 227
8	Italian (it) Fossato		110 383
9	Chinese (zh) 護城河		107 194
10	Persian (fa) خندق		87 212

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) Moat		8 293
2	Japanese (ja) 堀		998
3	French (fr) Douve (fossé)		778
4	Russian (ru) Ров		546
5	Polish (pl) Fosa		434
6	Chinese (zh) 護城河		411
7	Persian (fa) خندق		362
8	Spanish (es) Foso		269
9	Korean (ko) 해자		211
10	Simple English (simple) Moat		185

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moat		241
2	French (fr) Douve (fossé)		65
3	Japanese (ja) 堀		60
4	Italian (it) Fossato		53
5	Polish (pl) Fosa		52
6	Russian (ru) Ров		46
7	Spanish (es) Foso		33
8	Dutch (nl) Slotgracht		26
9	Swedish (sv) Vallgrav		26
10	Hebrew (he) חפיר		24

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	Azerbaijani (az) Xəndək (hərb)		2
2	Greek (el) Τάφρος		1
3	Basque (eu) Lubanarro		1
4	Finnish (fi) Vallihauta		1
5	Serbian (sr) Шанац (утврђење)		1
6	Uzbek (uz) Xandaq		1
7	Arabic (ar) خندق مائي		0
8	Belarusian (be) Роў (фартыфікацыя)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Ров		0
10	Catalan (ca) Fossat		0

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

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