Dark humor

Quality:

Black comedy - comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. Article “Dark humor” in English Wikipedia has 52.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 54 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.75 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4174^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5853^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6506^th most popular in all topics.

The 9155^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6932^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8124^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Dark humor” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dark humor”, its content was written by 1070 registered users of English Wikipedia (5853^rd place) and edited by 2682 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9155^th place).

The article is cited 5598 times in English Wikipedia (4191^st place) and cited 19876 times in all languages (8669^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1509 in July 2007
• Global: #3333 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2480 in March 2021
• Global: #4273 in March 2021

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, 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) Dark humor		52.175
2	Greek (el) Μαύρη κωμωδία		44.7146
3	Korean (ko) 블랙 코미디		44.1606
4	Malay (ms) Komedi gelap		38.0675
5	Portuguese (pt) Humor negro		37.7388
6	German (de) Schwarzer Humor		36.4935
7	French (fr) Humour noir		36.1965
8	Croatian (hr) Crni humor		33.9007
9	Italian (it) Umorismo nero		32.0876
10	Romanian (ro) Comedie neagră		28.5553

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark humor		23 452 409
2	Spanish (es) Humor negro		2 321 985
3	Russian (ru) Чёрный юмор		2 247 137
4	German (de) Schwarzer Humor		1 456 901
5	Chinese (zh) 黑色幽默		1 118 190
6	French (fr) Humour noir		1 106 692
7	Japanese (ja) ブラックジョーク		1 074 468
8	Portuguese (pt) Humor negro		835 760
9	Italian (it) Umorismo nero		831 107
10	Persian (fa) کمدی سیاه		395 617

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) Dark humor		76 582
2	Russian (ru) Чёрный юмор		6 636
3	Spanish (es) Humor negro		6 504
4	Japanese (ja) ブラックジョーク		3 227
5	Chinese (zh) 黑色幽默		3 051
6	French (fr) Humour noir		2 828
7	German (de) Schwarzer Humor		2 540
8	Persian (fa) کمدی سیاه		2 036
9	Croatian (hr) Crni humor		1 662
10	Italian (it) Umorismo nero		1 616

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark humor		1 070
2	French (fr) Humour noir		233
3	German (de) Schwarzer Humor		181
4	Spanish (es) Humor negro		148
5	Russian (ru) Чёрный юмор		127
6	Portuguese (pt) Humor negro		115
7	Italian (it) Umorismo nero		86
8	Dutch (nl) Zwarte humor		78
9	Hebrew (he) קומדיה שחורה		72
10	Chinese (zh) 黑色幽默		49

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) Dark humor		2
2	Vietnamese (vi) Hài đen		2
3	Arabic (ar) كوميديا سوداء		1
4	German (de) Schwarzer Humor		1
5	Basque (eu) Umore beltz		1
6	Japanese (ja) ブラックジョーク		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qara yumor		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Черна комедия		0
9	Catalan (ca) Humor negre		0
10	Czech (cs) Černý humor		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information