April Fools' Day

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April Fools' Day - annual celebration commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. This event is the 88^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 69^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "April Fools' Day" in English Wikipedia has 69.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 79 references and 26 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3691^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 775^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 69^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3721^st most popular in all topics.

The 1340^th most popular in AI.

The 88^th most popular in events.

In July 2024 the article "April Fools' Day" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "April Fools' Day", its content was written by 2022 registered users of English Wikipedia (775^th place) and edited by 5622 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1340^th place).

April Fools' Day is on the 69^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 88^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1650 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5064 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22 in April 2005
• Global: #11 in April 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21 in April 2008
• Global: #26 in April 2008

There are 51 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hindi (hi) अप्रैल फूल दिवस		81.6667
2	Dutch (nl) 1 aprilgrap		71.4191
3	English (en) April Fools' Day		69.7693
4	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		58.819
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cá tháng Tư		51.4812
6	Swedish (sv) Aprilskämt		41.7445
7	Romanian (ro) Ziua păcălelilor		36.9881
8	Russian (ru) День смеха		33.723
9	German (de) Aprilscherz		32.9665
10	Malay (ms) Hari April Fool		32.133

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) April Fools' Day		22 625 861
2	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		3 615 751
3	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		2 295 731
4	German (de) Aprilscherz		1 701 020
5	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1 483 474
6	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		1 293 521
7	Russian (ru) День смеха		1 191 493
8	Indonesian (id) April Mop		1 151 687
9	Polish (pl) Prima aprilis		1 145 194
10	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		943 676

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) April Fools' Day		20 957
2	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		2 880
3	Russian (ru) День смеха		2 535
4	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		1 693
5	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1 436
6	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		1 224
7	German (de) Aprilscherz		1 112
8	Turkish (tr) 1 Nisan Şaka Günü		681
9	Arabic (ar) كذبة أبريل		677
10	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		603

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) April Fools' Day		2 022
2	Dutch (nl) 1 aprilgrap		398
3	German (de) Aprilscherz		358
4	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		225
5	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		197
6	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		189
7	Russian (ru) День смеха		179
8	Hebrew (he) אחד באפריל		152
9	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		146
10	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		121

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) Aprilscherz		3
2	English (en) April Fools' Day		3
3	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1
4	Hindi (hi) अप्रैल फूल दिवस		1
5	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		1
6	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		1
7	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		1
8	Arabic (ar) كذبة أبريل		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ümumdünya Gülüş Günü		0
10	Belarusian (be) Дзень жартаў		0

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

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