Dark horse

Dark horse - metaphor. Article “Dark horse” in English Wikipedia has 35.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 7 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.

In June 2025 the article “Dark horse” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dark horse”, its content was written by 270 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 389 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 307 times in English Wikipedia and cited 511 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16305 in June 2005
• Global: #46564 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12702 in February 2014
• Global: #30215 in February 2014

There are 15 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) Dark horse		35.83
2	Russian (ru) Тёмная лошадка		25.2436
3	Indonesian (id) Kuda hitam		25.0582
4	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		24.7636
5	Japanese (ja) ダークホース (慣用句)		24.5798
6	Azerbaijani (az) Qara at		22.4848
7	Simple English (simple) Dark horse		22.3437
8	Uzbek (uz) Dark horse		22.2528
9	Thai (th) ม้ามืด		20.7167
10	Korean (ko) 다크호스		13.4344

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Dark horse" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark horse		2 609 226
2	Russian (ru) Тёмная лошадка		193 084
3	Arabic (ar) الحصان الأسود (مصطلح)		104 888
4	Chinese (zh) 黑马		96 733
5	Japanese (ja) ダークホース (慣用句)		46 006
6	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		45 518
7	Finnish (fi) Musta hevonen		35 266
8	Indonesian (id) Kuda hitam		32 212
9	Hebrew (he) סוס שחור		18 365
10	Korean (ko) 다크호스		14 578

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Dark horse" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark horse		17 094
2	Japanese (ja) ダークホース (慣用句)		1 957
3	Russian (ru) Тёмная лошадка		634
4	Chinese (zh) 黑马		474
5	Arabic (ar) الحصان الأسود (مصطلح)		317
6	Indonesian (id) Kuda hitam		149
7	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		147
8	Finnish (fi) Musta hevonen		115
9	Hebrew (he) סוס שחור		77
10	Simple English (simple) Dark horse		77

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

Language versions of the article "Dark horse" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark horse		270
2	Russian (ru) Тёмная лошадка		24
3	Chinese (zh) 黑马		21
4	Hebrew (he) סוס שחור		17
5	Finnish (fi) Musta hevonen		14
6	Arabic (ar) الحصان الأسود (مصطلح)		12
7	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		8
8	Swedish (sv) Dark horse		5
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qara at		4
10	Simple English (simple) Dark horse		4

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

Language versions of the article "Dark horse" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark horse		7
2	Chinese (zh) 黑马		2
3	Arabic (ar) الحصان الأسود (مصطلح)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qara at		0
5	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		0
6	Finnish (fi) Musta hevonen		0
7	Hebrew (he) סוס שחור		0
8	Indonesian (id) Kuda hitam		0
9	Japanese (ja) ダークホース (慣用句)		0
10	Korean (ko) 다크호스		0

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

Language versions of the article "Dark horse" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dark horse		307
2	Chinese (zh) 黑马		59
3	Russian (ru) Тёмная лошадка		30
4	Finnish (fi) Musta hevonen		28
5	Hebrew (he) סוס שחור		28
6	Korean (ko) 다크호스		16
7	Czech (cs) Černý kůň		8
8	Indonesian (id) Kuda hitam		8
9	Simple English (simple) Dark horse		7
10	Swedish (sv) Dark horse		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحصان الأسود (مصطلح)
az	Azerbaijani Qara at
cs	Czech Černý kůň
en	English Dark horse
fi	Finnish Musta hevonen
he	Hebrew סוס שחור
id	Indonesian Kuda hitam
ja	Japanese ダークホース (慣用句)
ko	Korean 다크호스
ru	Russian Тёмная лошадка
simple	Simple English Dark horse
sv	Swedish Dark horse
th	Thai ม้ามืด
uz	Uzbek Dark horse
zh	Chinese 黑马

Best Rank

English: #12702 02.2014

Global: #30215 02.2014

Best Rank

English: #16305 06.2005

Global: #46564 09.2003

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