Flogging a Dead Horse

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Flogging a Dead Horse

Quality:

Flogging a dead horse - idiom which means a particular effort is a waste of time as there will be no outcome. Article “Flogging a Dead Horse” in German Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Flogging a Dead Horse” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flogging a Dead Horse”, its content was written by 90 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in German Wikipedia and cited 29 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1097 in October 2004
  • Global: #4051 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #180321 in March 2025
  • Global: #151554 in October 2008

There are 2 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
1German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
29.2648
2English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
27.2529
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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 "Flogging a Dead Horse" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
1 239 722
2German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
38 015
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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 "Flogging a Dead Horse" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
4 125
2German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
192
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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 "Flogging a Dead Horse" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
153
2German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
90
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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 "Flogging a Dead Horse" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
2
2English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
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 "Flogging a Dead Horse" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Flogging a dead horse
25
2German (de)
Flogging a Dead Horse
4
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Flogging a Dead Horse
enEnglish
Flogging a dead horse

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#180321
03.2025
Global:
#151554
10.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1097
10.2004
Global:
#4051
10.2004

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 Flogging a dead horse from Wikipedia articles about Horse latitudes, No good deed goes unpunished, Jared Has Aides, English-language idiom and Proverb. Whereas reading the article about Flogging a dead horse people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Flogging a dead horse, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Sheboygan, Idiom and Speciesism.

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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