Black Friday (shopping)

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Black Friday - the Friday following Thanksgiving, considered the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. This event is the 64^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 56^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Black Friday (shopping)” in English Wikipedia has 86 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 172 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2618^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3755^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 56^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2281^st most popular in all topics.

The 7074^th most popular in AI.

The 64^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Black Friday (shopping)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Black Friday (shopping)”, its content was written by 1238 registered users of English Wikipedia (3755^th place) and edited by 2996 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7074^th place).

Black Friday is on the 56^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 64^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1199 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2616 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21 in November 2014
• Global: #12 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22 in November 2012
• Global: #7 in November 2017

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) Black Friday (shopping)		86.024
2	Hindi (hi) ब्लैक फ़्राइडे (ख़रीदारी)		69.867
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Svartefredag		52.3646
4	German (de) Black Friday		46.2688
5	Persian (fa) جمعه سیاه (خرید)		46.1176
6	Ukrainian (uk) Чорна п'ятниця		42.2575
7	French (fr) Black Friday (commerce)		39.7871
8	Spanish (es) Viernes negro (compras)		39.5204
9	Hebrew (he) בלאק פריידיי		38.7262
10	Portuguese (pt) Black Friday		35.9499

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Friday (shopping)		28 076 011
2	Japanese (ja) ブラックフライデー (買い物)		4 764 329
3	Spanish (es) Viernes negro (compras)		4 701 318
4	German (de) Black Friday		4 663 341
5	French (fr) Black Friday (commerce)		2 995 900
6	Russian (ru) Чёрная пятница (распродажи)		2 489 737
7	Portuguese (pt) Black Friday		2 056 251
8	Chinese (zh) 黑色星期五 (购物)		1 744 412
9	Arabic (ar) الجمعة السوداء		1 598 631
10	Dutch (nl) Black Friday		1 270 187

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) Black Friday (shopping)		13 660
2	Chinese (zh) 黑色星期五 (购物)		3 861
3	Spanish (es) Viernes negro (compras)		2 796
4	Japanese (ja) ブラックフライデー (買い物)		2 105
5	German (de) Black Friday		1 957
6	Russian (ru) Чёрная пятница (распродажи)		1 232
7	French (fr) Black Friday (commerce)		1 099
8	Portuguese (pt) Black Friday		1 046
9	Italian (it) Black Friday		910
10	Simple English (simple) Black Friday		895

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Friday (shopping)		1 238
2	German (de) Black Friday		207
3	Spanish (es) Viernes negro (compras)		167
4	French (fr) Black Friday (commerce)		141
5	Portuguese (pt) Black Friday		118
6	Italian (it) Black Friday		112
7	Hebrew (he) בלאק פריידיי		90
8	Dutch (nl) Black Friday		76
9	Arabic (ar) الجمعة السوداء		72
10	Russian (ru) Чёрная пятница (распродажи)		71

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	English (en) Black Friday (shopping)		2
2	Spanish (es) Viernes negro (compras)		1
3	Arabic (ar) الجمعة السوداء		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qara cümə (alış-veriş)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Черен петък		0
6	Catalan (ca) Divendres negre (comerç)		0
7	Czech (cs) Černý pátek (nakupování)		0
8	Danish (da) Black Friday		0
9	German (de) Black Friday		0
10	Greek (el) Black Friday		0

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

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