Half-sword

Half-sword - longsword fencing technique involving gripping the middle of the blade with the off-hand. Article “Half-sword” in English Wikipedia has 21 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.11 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Half-sword”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 64 times in English Wikipedia and cited 133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #118882 in April 2005
• Global: #100324 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40149 in February 2017
• Global: #55834 in November 2013

There are 9 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	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		25.6402
2	English (en) Half-sword		21.0078
3	German (de) Halbschwert		20.0165
4	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		18.283
5	Russian (ru) Половина меча		16.9503
6	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		13.1835
7	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		12.7538
8	Italian (it) Mezza spada		6.8035
9	French (fr) Demi-épée		4.5395

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Half-sword" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-sword		629 798
2	German (de) Halbschwert		139 868
3	Russian (ru) Половина меча		110 940
4	French (fr) Demi-épée		63 061
5	Italian (it) Mezza spada		30 205
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		2 338
7	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		1 251
8	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		126
9	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		64

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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 "Half-sword" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-sword		4 158
2	Russian (ru) Половина меча		452
3	German (de) Halbschwert		437
4	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		397
5	Italian (it) Mezza spada		165
6	French (fr) Demi-épée		132
7	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		37
8	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		10
9	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		3

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Half-sword		42
2	German (de) Halbschwert		33
3	French (fr) Demi-épée		18
4	Russian (ru) Половина меча		12
5	Italian (it) Mezza spada		11
6	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		3
7	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		2
8	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		2
9	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		1

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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 "Half-sword" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		0
2	German (de) Halbschwert		0
3	English (en) Half-sword		0
4	French (fr) Demi-épée		0
5	Italian (it) Mezza spada		0
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		0
7	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		0
8	Russian (ru) Половина меча		0
9	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		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 "Half-sword" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Half-sword		64
2	Russian (ru) Половина меча		31
3	German (de) Halbschwert		12
4	Italian (it) Mezza spada		11
5	French (fr) Demi-épée		7
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフソード		6
7	Polish (pl) Półmiecz		1
8	Turkish (tr) Yarım kılıç		1
9	Belarusian (be) Палова мяча		0

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Палова мяча
de	German Halbschwert
en	English Half-sword
fr	French Demi-épée
it	Italian Mezza spada
ja	Japanese ハーフソード
pl	Polish Półmiecz
ru	Russian Половина меча
tr	Turkish Yarım kılıç

Best Rank

English: #40149 02.2017

Global: #55834 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #118882 04.2005

Global: #100324 02.2006

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