Biwa

Biwa - Japanese plucked lute. Article “Biwa” in Turkish Wikipedia has 21.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Biwa”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia and edited by 479 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Turkish Wikipedia and cited 1228 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #2498 in December 2025
• Global: #31013 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #22226 in May 2018
• Global: #119439 in February 2008

There are 29 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	Russian (ru) Бива (инструмент)		79.8903
2	English (en) Biwa		53.439
3	Polish (pl) Biwa (instrument muzyczny)		34.8481
4	Chinese (zh) 琵琶 (日本)		29.4428
5	Slovenian (sl) Biva (glasbilo)		29.2226
6	Esperanto (eo) Bivo		26.0605
7	Ukrainian (uk) Біва (інструмент)		24.3804
8	Armenian (hy) Բիվա		23.7585
9	Turkish (tr) Biwa		21.9194
10	Indonesian (id) Biwa (alat musik)		20.3283

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Biwa		1 191 979
2	Russian (ru) Бива (инструмент)		146 114
3	French (fr) Biwa (instrument)		119 742
4	Spanish (es) Biwa		109 281
5	German (de) Biwa		81 549
6	Chinese (zh) 琵琶 (日本)		67 432
7	Portuguese (pt) Biwa		47 748
8	Polish (pl) Biwa (instrument muzyczny)		43 749
9	Finnish (fi) Biwa		25 326
10	Korean (ko) 비와		16 768

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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 "Biwa" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Biwa		3 324
2	Russian (ru) Бива (инструмент)		490
3	French (fr) Biwa (instrument)		401
4	German (de) Biwa		221
5	Chinese (zh) 琵琶 (日本)		208
6	Spanish (es) Biwa		201
7	Italian (it) Biwa (strumento musicale)		185
8	Polish (pl) Biwa (instrument muzyczny)		133
9	Persian (fa) بیوا		96
10	Portuguese (pt) Biwa		72

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Biwa		134
2	French (fr) Biwa (instrument)		47
3	German (de) Biwa		35
4	Italian (it) Biwa (strumento musicale)		34
5	Polish (pl) Biwa (instrument muzyczny)		19
6	Danish (da) Biwa		17
7	Spanish (es) Biwa		17
8	Portuguese (pt) Biwa		17
9	Russian (ru) Бива (инструмент)		17
10	Finnish (fi) Biwa		16

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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 "Biwa" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Biwa		1
2	Chinese (zh) 琵琶 (日本)		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Biva (musiqi aləti)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Бива		0
5	Catalan (ca) Biwa		0
6	Danish (da) Biwa		0
7	German (de) Biwa		0
8	English (en) Biwa		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Bivo		0
10	Spanish (es) Biwa		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 "Biwa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Biwa		266
2	English (en) Biwa		215
3	Ukrainian (uk) Біва (інструмент)		200
4	French (fr) Biwa (instrument)		130
5	Lithuanian (lt) Biva		60
6	German (de) Biwa		56
7	Chinese (zh) 琵琶 (日本)		43
8	Spanish (es) Biwa		41
9	Italian (it) Biwa (strumento musicale)		40
10	Russian (ru) Бива (инструмент)		39

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Biva (musiqi aləti)
bg	Bulgarian Бива
ca	Catalan Biwa
da	Danish Biwa
de	German Biwa
en	English Biwa
eo	Esperanto Bivo
es	Spanish Biwa
eu	Basque Biwa
fa	Persian بیوا
fi	Finnish Biwa
fr	French Biwa (instrument)
he	Hebrew ביווה
hu	Hungarian Biva
hy	Armenian Բիվա
id	Indonesian Biwa (alat musik)
it	Italian Biwa (strumento musicale)
ko	Korean 비와
lt	Lithuanian Biva
pl	Polish Biwa (instrument muzyczny)
pt	Portuguese Biwa
ro	Romanian Biwa
ru	Russian Бива (инструмент)
sl	Slovenian Biva (glasbilo)
sr	Serbian Бива (инструмент)
sv	Swedish Biwa
tr	Turkish Biwa
uk	Ukrainian Біва (інструмент)
zh	Chinese 琵琶 (日本)

Best Rank

Turkish: #22226 05.2018

Global: #119439 02.2008

Best Rank

Turkish: #2498 12.2025

Global: #31013 10.2003

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