Witz

Quality:

Joke - short fictional story with the intent to make people laugh. Article “Witz” in German Wikipedia has 73.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 56 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 3182^nd most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3191^st most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Witz” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Witz”, its content was written by 421 registered users of German Wikipedia (3182^nd place) and edited by 4368 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3191^st place).

The article is cited 337 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4500 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #312 in June 2005
• Global: #400 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #10038 in January 2009
• Global: #6795 in June 2008

There are 46 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Joke		90.174
2	German (de) Witz		73.2467
3	Italian (it) Barzelletta		66.2608
4	Portuguese (pt) Piada		61.5381
5	Czech (cs) Vtip		39.7245
6	French (fr) Blague		39.309
7	Norwegian (no) Vits		29.8972
8	Esperanto (eo) Ŝerco		27.276
9	Chinese (zh) 笑話		25.5431
10	Japanese (ja) ジョーク		25.4845

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Joke		5 593 124
2	Spanish (es) Chiste		2 477 597
3	Portuguese (pt) Piada		1 036 590
4	German (de) Witz		956 596
5	Japanese (ja) ジョーク		851 222
6	Russian (ru) Шутка		694 931
7	French (fr) Blague		407 822
8	Polish (pl) Dowcip		354 562
9	Chinese (zh) 笑話		303 023
10	Turkish (tr) Fıkra		282 105

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Joke		14 321
2	Russian (ru) Шутка		2 326
3	Portuguese (pt) Piada		1 875
4	Hebrew (he) בדיחה		1 714
5	Simple English (simple) Joke		1 358
6	German (de) Witz		1 216
7	Japanese (ja) ジョーク		1 157
8	Spanish (es) Chiste		1 080
9	French (fr) Blague		779
10	Polish (pl) Dowcip		638

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Joke		1 581
2	German (de) Witz		421
3	Spanish (es) Chiste		287
4	French (fr) Blague		192
5	Portuguese (pt) Piada		182
6	Hebrew (he) בדיחה		168
7	Italian (it) Barzelletta		108
8	Hungarian (hu) Vicc		103
9	Chinese (zh) 笑話		102
10	Norwegian (no) Vits		97

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Witz		3
2	Spanish (es) Chiste		3
3	Simple English (simple) Joke		3
4	French (fr) Blague		2
5	Croatian (hr) Šala		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Piada		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Šala		1
8	Arabic (ar) نكتة		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Lətifə		0
10	Belarusian (be) Жарт		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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