Buttress

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Buttress

Quality:

Buttress - architectural structure, usually of masonry, built to strengthen or support walls or resist the lateral thrust of vaults. Article “Buttress” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Buttress”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 678 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1141 in August 2011
  • Global: #9038 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #4332 in August 2010
  • Global: #45740 in April 2019

There are 35 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
1Esperanto (eo)
Kontraŭforto
47.6747
2Slovenian (sl)
Opornik
47.5831
3English (en)
Buttress
37.3549
4Bulgarian (bg)
Контрафорс
34.8288
5Estonian (et)
Tugipiilar
34.4592
6Portuguese (pt)
Contraforte
33.1895
7German (de)
Strebepfeiler
31.5437
8Norwegian (no)
Strebepilar
28.713
9Catalan (ca)
Contrafort
28.6238
10Basque (eu)
Hormabular
28.5292
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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 "Buttress" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Buttress
1 850 583
2Spanish (es)
Contrafuerte
603 595
3Russian (ru)
Контрфорс
525 306
4Italian (it)
Contrafforte
362 341
5French (fr)
Contrefort
244 890
6Polish (pl)
Skarpa (architektura)
219 879
7Japanese (ja)
控え壁
171 227
8Portuguese (pt)
Contraforte
144 087
9Dutch (nl)
Steunbeer
114 737
10Catalan (ca)
Contrafort
88 462
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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 "Buttress" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Buttress
4 799
2Russian (ru)
Контрфорс
1 785
3Spanish (es)
Contrafuerte
739
4French (fr)
Contrefort
629
5German (de)
Strebepfeiler
543
6Japanese (ja)
控え壁
506
7Polish (pl)
Skarpa (architektura)
439
8Italian (it)
Contrafforte
378
9Dutch (nl)
Steunbeer
329
10Portuguese (pt)
Contraforte
287
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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 "Buttress" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Buttress
114
2German (de)
Strebepfeiler
76
3French (fr)
Contrefort
69
4Italian (it)
Contrafforte
55
5Spanish (es)
Contrafuerte
43
6Russian (ru)
Контрфорс
39
7Dutch (nl)
Steunbeer
35
8Polish (pl)
Skarpa (architektura)
27
9Catalan (ca)
Contrafort
23
10Galician (gl)
Contraforte
23
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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 "Buttress" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Contrafuerte
1
2Thai (th)
ครีบยัน
1
3Arabic (ar)
كتف (عمارة)
0
4Belarusian (be)
Контрфорс
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Контрафорс
0
6Catalan (ca)
Contrafort
0
7Danish (da)
Stræbepille
0
8German (de)
Strebepfeiler
0
9Greek (el)
Αντηρίδα
0
10English (en)
Buttress
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 "Buttress" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Buttress
3 732
2German (de)
Strebepfeiler
2 620
3French (fr)
Contrefort
2 336
4Catalan (ca)
Contrafort
1 194
5Spanish (es)
Contrafuerte
961
6Polish (pl)
Skarpa (architektura)
672
7Dutch (nl)
Steunbeer
548
8Russian (ru)
Контрфорс
471
9Italian (it)
Contrafforte
460
10Ukrainian (uk)
Контрфорс (архітектура)
424
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Scores

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Global:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كتف (عمارة)
beBelarusian
Контрфорс
bgBulgarian
Контрафорс
caCatalan
Contrafort
daDanish
Stræbepille
deGerman
Strebepfeiler
elGreek
Αντηρίδα
enEnglish
Buttress
eoEsperanto
Kontraŭforto
esSpanish
Contrafuerte
etEstonian
Tugipiilar
euBasque
Hormabular
faPersian
پشت‌بند
frFrench
Contrefort
glGalician
Contraforte
hrCroatian
Kontrafor
hyArmenian
Կոնտրֆորս
itItalian
Contrafforte
jaJapanese
控え壁
kkKazakh
Контрфорс
koKorean
버트레스
ltLithuanian
Kontraforsas
nlDutch
Steunbeer
noNorwegian
Strebepilar
plPolish
Skarpa (architektura)
ptPortuguese
Contraforte
roRomanian
Contrafort
ruRussian
Контрфорс
shSerbo-Croatian
Kontrafor
simpleSimple English
Buttress
slSlovenian
Opornik
svSwedish
Strävpelare
thThai
ครีบยัน
ukUkrainian
Контрфорс (архітектура)
zhChinese
扶壁

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4332
08.2010
Global:
#45740
04.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1141
08.2011
Global:
#9038
08.2011

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Buttress from Wikipedia articles about Flying buttress, Crinkle crankle wall, Centralia mine fire, Hagia Sophia and Gothic architecture. Whereas reading the article about Buttress people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Flying buttress, Earthquake Baroque, Eanna, Pinnacle and Strainer arch.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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