Holy Lance

Quality:

Holy Lance - according to the Gospel of John, lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross. Article “Holy Lance” in English Wikipedia has 95.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 150 references and 12 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Holy Lance”, its content was written by 588 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1787 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 303 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #497 in December 2001
• Global: #521 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2354 in December 2015
• Global: #4779 in December 2015

There are 34 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	English (en) Holy Lance		95.4616
2	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		80.3716
3	Catalan (ca) Llança Sagrada		68.3604
4	Estonian (et) Longinuse oda		57.2588
5	French (fr) Sainte Lance		55.8692
6	German (de) Heilige Lanze		46.0245
7	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		43.0933
8	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		34.0028
9	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		31.6929
10	Ukrainian (uk) Спис Лонгина		31.6643

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Holy Lance		8 430 408
2	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		2 573 264
3	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		2 001 439
4	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		1 516 490
5	German (de) Heilige Lanze		1 251 961
6	French (fr) Sainte Lance		718 851
7	Portuguese (pt) Lança do destino		636 426
8	Italian (it) Lancia del Destino		608 256
9	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		596 970
10	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		506 536

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) Holy Lance		44 371
2	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		8 364
3	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		5 875
4	German (de) Heilige Lanze		4 922
5	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		3 597
6	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		3 461
7	French (fr) Sainte Lance		3 273
8	Italian (it) Lancia del Destino		2 066
9	Portuguese (pt) Lança do destino		1 461
10	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		1 096

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Holy Lance		588
2	German (de) Heilige Lanze		206
3	French (fr) Sainte Lance		165
4	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		107
5	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		93
6	Italian (it) Lancia del Destino		88
7	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		87
8	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		65
9	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		42
10	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		40

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) Lancia del Destino		3
2	Arabic (ar) الحربة المقدسة		1
3	German (de) Heilige Lanze		1
4	English (en) Holy Lance		1
5	Estonian (et) Longinuse oda		1
6	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Müqəddəs Nizə		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Копие на Лонгин		0
9	Catalan (ca) Llança Sagrada		0
10	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		0

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

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