Crossbow

Quality:

Crossbow - type of ranged weapon based on the bow. Article “Crossbow” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 124 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7308^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Crossbow” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Crossbow”, its content was written by 817 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2951 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7308^th place).

The article is cited 1136 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1425 in November 2002
• Global: #1784 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2593 in October 2013
• Global: #5044 in July 2011

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, 2025 (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	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		99.9278
2	Catalan (ca) Ballesta		98.2415
3	English (en) Crossbow		96.3758
4	Chinese (zh) 弩		65.825
5	French (fr) Arbalète		59.1754
6	German (de) Armbrust		58.9201
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		51.9402
8	Ukrainian (uk) Арбалет		44.4621
9	Persian (fa) کمان زنبورکی		43.7546
10	Russian (ru) Арбалет		43.6934

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crossbow		8 652 644
2	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		1 975 776
3	German (de) Armbrust		1 717 435
4	Russian (ru) Арбалет		1 704 699
5	Spanish (es) Ballesta		1 247 480
6	Polish (pl) Kusza		802 145
7	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		695 136
8	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		660 119
9	Chinese (zh) 弩		633 838
10	French (fr) Arbalète		368 038

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) Crossbow		19 666
2	Russian (ru) Арбалет		4 051
3	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		3 812
4	German (de) Armbrust		3 101
5	French (fr) Arbalète		2 301
6	Chinese (zh) 弩		2 161
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		1 885
8	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		1 256
9	Polish (pl) Kusza		1 064
10	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		1 016

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Crossbow		817
2	German (de) Armbrust		280
3	French (fr) Arbalète		230
4	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		147
5	Russian (ru) Арбалет		128
6	Dutch (nl) Kruisboog		119
7	Spanish (es) Ballesta		113
8	Japanese (ja) クロスボウ		84
9	Polish (pl) Kusza		74
10	Portuguese (pt) Besta (arma)		67

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	Italian (it) Balestra (arma)		3
2	English (en) Crossbow		1
3	Spanish (es) Ballesta		1
4	French (fr) Arbalète		1
5	Korean (ko) 쇠뇌		1
6	Swedish (sv) Armborst		1
7	Arabic (ar) قوس إفرنجية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Qundaqlı yay-ox		0
9	Belarusian (be) Арбалет		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Арбалет		0

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

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