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Yarn

Quality:

Shaggy dog story - intentionally-long joke ending in an anticlimax. Article “Yarn” in German Wikipedia has 1.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Yarn”, its content was written by 18 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 363 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in German Wikipedia and cited 452 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #17780 in June 2004
  • Global: #1193 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #80891 in November 2009
  • Global: #7143 in June 2016

There are 7 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, 2026 (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)
Shaggy dog story
32.8631
2Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
24.9656
3Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
18.5794
4Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
15.3088
5Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
14.3589
6French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
12.9746
7German (de)
Yarn
1.2256
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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 "Yarn" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shaggy dog story
3 113 496
2Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
66 175
3German (de)
Yarn
43 625
4Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
19 682
5Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
12 218
6French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
9 851
7Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
347
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Yarn" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shaggy dog story
8 750
2Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
151
3Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
143
4German (de)
Yarn
103
5Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
83
6French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
65
7Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
0
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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 "Yarn" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shaggy dog story
301
2Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
27
3German (de)
Yarn
18
4Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
6
5French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
5
6Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
5
7Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
1
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Yarn" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shaggy dog story
2
2Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
0
3German (de)
Yarn
0
4French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
0
5Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
0
6Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
0
7Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
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 "Yarn" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shaggy dog story
277
2Japanese (ja)
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
98
3Chinese (zh)
长毛狗的故事
59
4Swedish (sv)
Västgötaklimax
8
5German (de)
Yarn
7
6French (fr)
Histoire sans queue ni tête
2
7Arabic (ar)
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
1
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2026:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
German:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
طرفة الكلب الأشعث
deGerman
Yarn
enEnglish
Shaggy dog story
frFrench
Histoire sans queue ni tête
jaJapanese
シャギー・ドッグ・ストーリー
svSwedish
Västgötaklimax
zhChinese
长毛狗的故事

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#80891
11.2009
Global:
#7143
06.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#17780
06.2004
Global:
#1193
10.2001

Global popularity rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shaggy dog story from Wikipedia articles about Anti-humor, The Aristocrats, Norm Macdonald, Moth joke and Chekhovs gun. Whereas reading the article about Shaggy dog story people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Moth joke, Shah Guido G., Shaggy God story, Feghoot and Albuquerque.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

de: Yarn

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Demokratische Republik Kongo, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026, Senegal, Julian Nagelsmann, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1994, Jürgen Klopp, Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2028, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information