Damsyik

Quality:

Damascus - capital and largest city of Syria. This city is the 113th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 45th most popular city in Malay Wikipedia. Article "Damsyik" in Malay Wikipedia has 33.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Malay Wikipedia:
The 6004th most popular in Malay Wikipedia.
The 3274th most editable in Malay Wikipedia.
The 45th most popular in cities in Malay Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 6321st most popular in all topics.
The 2012th most popular in AI.
The 113th most popular in cities.
Achievements in the last month:
Malay Wikipedia:
The 8468th most popular in Malay Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 7884th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 5517th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Damsyik", its content was written by 17 registered users of Malay Wikipedia (3274th place) and edited by 4896 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2012th place).

Damascus is on the 45th place in local ranking of cities in Malay Wikipedia and on the 113th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 349 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 58654 times in all languages (2668th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Malay): #36 in January 2009
  • Global: #341 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Malay): #486 in January 2015
  • Global: #1609 in April 2018

There are 55 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Arabic (ar)
دمشق
100
2Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Damaskus
100
3Esperanto (eo)
Damasko
94.5343
4English (en)
Damascus
91.6682
5German (de)
Damaskus
87.0175
6Spanish (es)
Damasco
75.4385
7Catalan (ca)
Damasc
74.0582
8Latin (la)
Damascus
71.1867
9Persian (fa)
دمشق
70.8663
10Ukrainian (uk)
Дамаск
70.5305
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Damsyik" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Damascus
12 770 042
2Arabic (ar)
دمشق
2 897 717
3Spanish (es)
Damasco
2 600 361
4German (de)
Damaskus
2 485 556
5Russian (ru)
Дамаск
2 100 353
6French (fr)
Damas
1 497 334
7Japanese (ja)
ダマスカス
1 032 134
8Italian (it)
Damasco
1 017 546
9Portuguese (pt)
Damasco
993 883
10Polish (pl)
Damaszek
848 363
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Damsyik" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Damascus
64 898
2Russian (ru)
Дамаск
12 434
3Arabic (ar)
دمشق
10 114
4Spanish (es)
Damasco
9 059
5German (de)
Damaskus
7 553
6Persian (fa)
دمشق
5 204
7Portuguese (pt)
Damasco
4 508
8French (fr)
Damas
4 471
9Italian (it)
Damasco
4 316
10Japanese (ja)
ダマスカス
4 001
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Damsyik" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Damascus
974
2German (de)
Damaskus
420
3French (fr)
Damas
273
4Arabic (ar)
دمشق
266
5Italian (it)
Damasco
209
6Hebrew (he)
דמשק
179
7Russian (ru)
Дамаск
172
8Spanish (es)
Damasco
165
9Dutch (nl)
Damascus
157
10Turkish (tr)
Şam
107
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Damsyik" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Damascus
10
2Arabic (ar)
دمشق
6
3German (de)
Damaskus
5
4Swedish (sv)
Damaskus
2
5Basque (eu)
Damasko
1
6Hebrew (he)
דמשק
1
7Hindi (hi)
दमिश्क़
1
8Armenian (hy)
Դամասկոս
1
9Japanese (ja)
ダマスカス
1
10Polish (pl)
Damaszek
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Damsyik" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Arabic (ar)
دمشق
8 548
2English (en)
Damascus
7 640
3French (fr)
Damas
3 910
4German (de)
Damaskus
2 672
5Russian (ru)
Дамаск
2 477
6Persian (fa)
دمشق
2 236
7Hebrew (he)
דמשק
2 094
8Spanish (es)
Damasco
1 970
9Italian (it)
Damasco
1 947
10Turkish (tr)
Şam
1 469
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Malay:
Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
Malay:
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Popularity in all years:
Malay:
Global:
Authors in July 2024:
Malay:
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Registered authors in all years:
Malay:
Global:
Citations:
Malay:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
دمشق
azAzerbaijani
Dəməşq
beBelarusian
Дамаск
bgBulgarian
Дамаск
caCatalan
Damasc
csCzech
Damašek
daDanish
Damaskus
deGerman
Damaskus
elGreek
Δαμασκός
enEnglish
Damascus
eoEsperanto
Damasko
esSpanish
Damasco
etEstonian
Damaskus
euBasque
Damasko
faPersian
دمشق
fiFinnish
Damaskos
frFrench
Damas
glGalician
Damasco
heHebrew
דמשק
hiHindi
दमिश्क़
hrCroatian
Damask
huHungarian
Damaszkusz
hyArmenian
Դամասկոս
idIndonesian
Damaskus
itItalian
Damasco
jaJapanese
ダマスカス
kaGeorgian
დამასკო
kkKazakh
Дамаск
koKorean
다마스쿠스
laLatin
Damascus
ltLithuanian
Damaskas
msMalay
Damsyik
nlDutch
Damascus
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Damaskus
noNorwegian
Damaskus
plPolish
Damaszek
ptPortuguese
Damasco
roRomanian
Damasc
ruRussian
Дамаск
shSerbo-Croatian
Damask
simpleSimple English
Damascus
skSlovak
Damask
slSlovenian
Damask
srSerbian
Дамаск
svSwedish
Damaskus
taTamil
திமிஷ்கு
thThai
ดามัสกัส
trTurkish
Şam
ukUkrainian
Дамаск
urUrdu
دمشق
uzUzbek
Damashq
viVietnamese
Damascus
voVolapük
Dimäjk
zhChinese
大马士革
zhminnanMin Nan
Damascus

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Malay:
#486
01.2015
Global:
#1609
04.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank Malay:
#36
01.2009
Global:
#341
07.2011

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Damascus from Wikipedia articles about Syria, Umayyad Caliphate, Bashar al-Assad, List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and Saladin. Whereas reading the article about Damascus people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Syria, Aleppo, List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, Syrian Civil War and Umayyad Mosque.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

fr: Damas
tr: Şam
ro: Damasc
hr: Damask
ca: Damasc
sk: Damask
simple: Damascus
sl: Damask
sh: Damask
zhminnan: Damascus

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