Bullshit job

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Bullshit job

Quality:

Bullshit job - category of jobs which are meaningless or harm to society, theorized by anthropologist David Graeber in a 2018 essay. Article “Bullshit job” in English Wikipedia has 29.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.53 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Bullshit job” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bullshit job”, its content was written by 29 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 44 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 380 times in English Wikipedia and cited 424 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #53155 in February 2022
  • Global: #142744 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #227945 in July 2022
  • Global: #381001 in July 2022

There are 4 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
30.7878
2English (en)
Bullshit job
29.0885
3Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
25.7171
4Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
25.1208
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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 "Bullshit job" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bullshit job
129 593
2Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
4 206
3Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
263
4Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
39
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Bullshit job" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bullshit job
1 900
2Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
39
3Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
33
4Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
7
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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 "Bullshit job" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bullshit job
29
2Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
11
3Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
2
4Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
2
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Bullshit job" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bullshit job
2
2Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
2
3Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
0
4Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
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 "Bullshit job" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Bullshit job
380
2Swedish (sv)
Pseudoarbete
40
3Portuguese (pt)
Bullshit job
3
4Spanish (es)
Trabajo de mierda
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Bullshit job
esSpanish
Trabajo de mierda
ptPortuguese
Bullshit job
svSwedish
Pseudoarbete

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#227945
07.2022
Global:
#381001
07.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#53155
02.2022
Global:
#142744
09.2021

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Bullshit job from Wikipedia articles about Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Dead-end job, David Graeber, Office Space and Criticism of work. Whereas reading the article about Bullshit job people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, The Onion, Busy work, Dilbert principle and Boondoggle.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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