Spoils System

Quality:

Spoils system - practice where a newly elected political party gives civil service jobs to supporters and cronies. Article "Spoils System" in German Wikipedia has 22.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Spoils System", its content was written by 42 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 610 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in German Wikipedia and cited 833 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #14419 in January 2008
  • Global: #5103 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #54540 in November 2008
  • Global: #33199 in November 2018

There are 19 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
1English (en)
Spoils system
41.1957
2Finnish (fi)
Spoils-järjestelmä
30.5678
3German (de)
Spoils System
22.2918
4Kazakh (kk)
Spoil system
22.0613
5French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
21.2943
6Portuguese (pt)
Spoils system
14.3357
7Hungarian (hu)
Zsákmányrendszer
14.3116
8Chinese (zh)
獵官制
13.8278
9Italian (it)
Spoils system
12.4187
10Ukrainian (uk)
Поділ здобичі
11.927
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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 "Spoils System" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Spoils system
3 472 306
2Italian (it)
Spoils system
455 934
3Japanese (ja)
猟官制
231 868
4French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
105 193
5German (de)
Spoils System
65 842
6Korean (ko)
엽관제
60 396
7Chinese (zh)
獵官制
28 624
8Russian (ru)
Делёж добычи
26 190
9Polish (pl)
Patronaż
21 810
10Spanish (es)
Spoils system
16 649
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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 "Spoils System" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Spoils system
16 118
2Japanese (ja)
猟官制
1 271
3Italian (it)
Spoils system
1 206
4German (de)
Spoils System
618
5French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
526
6Chinese (zh)
獵官制
409
7Russian (ru)
Делёж добычи
258
8Spanish (es)
Spoils system
202
9Korean (ko)
엽관제
174
10Persian (fa)
سیستم تاراج
104
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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 "Spoils System" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Spoils system
320
2Italian (it)
Spoils system
50
3French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
46
4German (de)
Spoils System
42
5Japanese (ja)
猟官制
34
6Spanish (es)
Spoils system
18
7Danish (da)
Spoilssystemet
14
8Hungarian (hu)
Zsákmányrendszer
13
9Russian (ru)
Делёж добычи
12
10Polish (pl)
Patronaż
10
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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 "Spoils System" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Spoils system
1
2Spanish (es)
Spoils system
1
3Italian (it)
Spoils system
1
4Korean (ko)
엽관제
1
5Danish (da)
Spoilssystemet
0
6German (de)
Spoils System
0
7Persian (fa)
سیستم تاراج
0
8Finnish (fi)
Spoils-järjestelmä
0
9French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
0
10Hungarian (hu)
Zsákmányrendszer
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 "Spoils System" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Spoils system
465
2Italian (it)
Spoils system
106
3French (fr)
Système des dépouilles
62
4Japanese (ja)
猟官制
48
5German (de)
Spoils System
31
6Chinese (zh)
獵官制
31
7Russian (ru)
Делёж добычи
16
8Korean (ko)
엽관제
15
9Portuguese (pt)
Spoils system
15
10Spanish (es)
Spoils system
13
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
daDanish
Spoilssystemet
deGerman
Spoils System
enEnglish
Spoils system
esSpanish
Spoils system
faPersian
سیستم تاراج
fiFinnish
Spoils-järjestelmä
frFrench
Système des dépouilles
huHungarian
Zsákmányrendszer
itItalian
Spoils system
jaJapanese
猟官制
kkKazakh
Spoil system
koKorean
엽관제
plPolish
Patronaż
ptPortuguese
Spoils system
ruRussian
Делёж добычи
svSwedish
Spoilssystemet
trTurkish
Kadrolaşma
ukUkrainian
Поділ здобичі
zhChinese
獵官制

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#54540
11.2008
Global:
#33199
11.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#14419
01.2008
Global:
#5103
09.2002

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Spoils system from Wikipedia articles about Andrew Jackson, James A. Garfield, Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign, Merit system and Jacksonian Democracy. Whereas reading the article about Spoils system people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Cronyism, Merit system, Andrew Jackson and Political patronage.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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