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Quality:

Backspace - computer keyboard key used to delete the character preceding the cursor. Article “Backspace” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Backspace”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 404 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1007 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #5215 in September 2010
  • Global: #46016 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #10499 in November 2023
  • Global: #79204 in April 2024

There are 24 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Backspace
43.0631
2Catalan (ca)
Tecla de retrocés
36.8946
3Hebrew (he)
מקש Backspace
32.4437
4Vietnamese (vi)
Backspace
27.7385
5Chinese (zh)
退格鍵
24.8158
6Persian (fa)
بک‌اسپیس
24.2895
7Slovenian (sl)
Vračalka
23.7716
8Esperanto (eo)
Retropaŝo
23.052
9Russian (ru)
Backspace
20.7748
10Spanish (es)
Retroceso (tecla)
20.5986
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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 "Backspace" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Backspace
1 244 219
2German (de)
Backspace
385 778
3Russian (ru)
Backspace
321 338
4Spanish (es)
Retroceso (tecla)
242 078
5Polish (pl)
Backspace
139 858
6French (fr)
Retour arrière
134 310
7Japanese (ja)
バックスペースキー
98 134
8Italian (it)
Backspace
73 157
9Korean (ko)
백스페이스
53 277
10Czech (cs)
Backspace
44 508
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Backspace" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Backspace
4 234
2German (de)
Backspace
811
3Russian (ru)
Backspace
656
4Spanish (es)
Retroceso (tecla)
351
5French (fr)
Retour arrière
342
6Simple English (simple)
Backspace
318
7Japanese (ja)
バックスペースキー
247
8Chinese (zh)
退格鍵
184
9Italian (it)
Backspace
103
10Polish (pl)
Backspace
100
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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 "Backspace" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Backspace
126
2German (de)
Backspace
50
3French (fr)
Retour arrière
36
4Russian (ru)
Backspace
27
5Polish (pl)
Backspace
21
6Dutch (nl)
Backspace
20
7Japanese (ja)
バックスペースキー
13
8Czech (cs)
Backspace
11
9Italian (it)
Backspace
11
10Simple English (simple)
Backspace
11
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Backspace" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Backspace
1
2Arabic (ar)
مفتاح إرجاع
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Backspace klavişi
0
4Catalan (ca)
Tecla de retrocés
0
5Czech (cs)
Backspace
0
6Danish (da)
Backspace-tast
0
7German (de)
Backspace
0
8English (en)
Backspace
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Retropaŝo
0
10Spanish (es)
Retroceso (tecla)
0
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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 "Backspace" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Backspace
228
2German (de)
Backspace
89
3French (fr)
Retour arrière
83
4Japanese (ja)
バックスペースキー
83
5Korean (ko)
백스페이스
65
6Chinese (zh)
退格鍵
60
7Polish (pl)
Backspace
55
8Persian (fa)
بک‌اسپیس
54
9Russian (ru)
Backspace
50
10Czech (cs)
Backspace
44
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مفتاح إرجاع
azAzerbaijani
Backspace klavişi
caCatalan
Tecla de retrocés
csCzech
Backspace
daDanish
Backspace-tast
deGerman
Backspace
enEnglish
Backspace
eoEsperanto
Retropaŝo
esSpanish
Retroceso (tecla)
faPersian
بک‌اسپیس
frFrench
Retour arrière
heHebrew
מקש Backspace
itItalian
Backspace
jaJapanese
バックスペースキー
kkKazakh
Backspace
koKorean
백스페이스
nlDutch
Backspace
plPolish
Backspace
ruRussian
Backspace
simpleSimple English
Backspace
skSlovak
Backspace
slSlovenian
Vračalka
viVietnamese
Backspace
zhChinese
退格鍵

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#10499
11.2023
Global:
#79204
04.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5215
09.2010
Global:
#46016
12.2011

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Backspace from Wikipedia articles about Delete key, ASCII, List of Unicode characters, Delete character and Keyboard layout. Whereas reading the article about Backspace people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Delete key, Extended ASCII, ASCII, Epanorthosis and Caret notation.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Backspace

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