Chain letter

Quality:

Chain letter - message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients. Article “Chain letter” in English Wikipedia has 83.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 344 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.79 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Chain letter” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Chain letter”, its content was written by 348 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 286 times in English Wikipedia and cited 955 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #813 in March 2002
• Global: #1029 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3894 in December 2011
• Global: #8486 in December 2011

There are 31 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Chain letter		83.7857
2	Russian (ru) Письма счастья		34.4844
3	Chinese (zh) 连环信		28.616
4	Czech (cs) Řetězový dopis		24.4432
5	Japanese (ja) チェーンメール		21.8542
6	Italian (it) Catena di sant'Antonio		19.4951
7	Finnish (fi) Ketjukirje		17.0218
8	Hungarian (hu) Lánclevél		15.4652
9	French (fr) Chaîne de lettres		15.3593
10	German (de) Kettenbrief		15.328

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chain letter		2 459 735
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンメール		1 376 207
3	Russian (ru) Письма счастья		575 347
4	Italian (it) Catena di sant'Antonio		434 680
5	German (de) Kettenbrief		431 413
6	Polish (pl) Łańcuszek internetowy		266 109
7	Spanish (es) Cadena de mensajes		144 195
8	French (fr) Chaîne de lettres		121 011
9	Chinese (zh) 连环信		117 626
10	Dutch (nl) Kettingbrief		68 465

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) Chain letter		4 635
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンメール		1 113
3	German (de) Kettenbrief		1 108
4	Russian (ru) Письма счастья		575
5	Italian (it) Catena di sant'Antonio		510
6	Chinese (zh) 连环信		345
7	Polish (pl) Łańcuszek internetowy		204
8	French (fr) Chaîne de lettres		168
9	Dutch (nl) Kettingbrief		149
10	Spanish (es) Cadena de mensajes		94

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chain letter		348
2	German (de) Kettenbrief		141
3	Japanese (ja) チェーンメール		95
4	Russian (ru) Письма счастья		78
5	Polish (pl) Łańcuszek internetowy		69
6	Italian (it) Catena di sant'Antonio		68
7	French (fr) Chaîne de lettres		61
8	Dutch (nl) Kettingbrief		45
9	Hungarian (hu) Lánclevél		38
10	Hebrew (he) מכתב שרשרת		36

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) Chain letter		1
2	Armenian (hy) Շղթա նամակ		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Верижно писмо		0
4	Czech (cs) Řetězový dopis		0
5	Danish (da) Kædebrev		0
6	German (de) Kettenbrief		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Ĉenletero		0
8	Spanish (es) Cadena de mensajes		0
9	Persian (fa) نامه زنجیره‌ای		0
10	Finnish (fi) Ketjukirje		0

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

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