Fat Thursday

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Fat Thursday - traditional Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent, associated with the celebration of Carnival. This event is the 1170^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Fat Thursday” in English Wikipedia has 48.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 13 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1170^th most popular in events.

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

Since the creation of article “Fat Thursday”, its content was written by 147 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 704 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fat Thursday is on the 1170^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 201 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1224 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1983 in February 2019
• Global: #2185 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4685 in February 2021
• Global: #2578 in February 2021

There are 23 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) Fat Thursday		48.477
2	Indonesian (id) Kamis Gemuk		46.1657
3	Chinese (zh) 肥胖星期四		45.0121
4	Greek (el) Γλυκοπέμπτη		44.16
5	Spanish (es) Jueves lardero		40.9156
6	German (de) Schmotziger Donnerstag		40.666
7	Catalan (ca) Dijous gras		37.0339
8	Bulgarian (bg) Дебел четвъртък		35.1564
9	Vietnamese (vi) Fat Thursday		33.0351
10	Polish (pl) Tłusty czwartek		27.5489

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Polish (pl) Tłusty czwartek		2 493 475
2	English (en) Fat Thursday		1 734 019
3	German (de) Schmotziger Donnerstag		791 890
4	Spanish (es) Jueves lardero		675 841
5	Catalan (ca) Dijous gras		249 954
6	Hungarian (hu) Torkos csütörtök		111 982
7	Russian (ru) Жирный четверг		91 988
8	French (fr) Jeudi gras		76 796
9	Romanian (ro) Carnavalul german		29 347
10	Japanese (ja) 脂の木曜日		25 365

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) Fat Thursday		1 555
2	Polish (pl) Tłusty czwartek		631
3	German (de) Schmotziger Donnerstag		623
4	Spanish (es) Jueves lardero		429
5	Japanese (ja) 脂の木曜日		226
6	Russian (ru) Жирный четверг		186
7	Catalan (ca) Dijous gras		159
8	Chinese (zh) 肥胖星期四		107
9	French (fr) Jeudi gras		102
10	Ukrainian (uk) Жирний четвер		102

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fat Thursday		147
2	German (de) Schmotziger Donnerstag		134
3	Polish (pl) Tłusty czwartek		127
4	Spanish (es) Jueves lardero		93
5	Catalan (ca) Dijous gras		49
6	French (fr) Jeudi gras		38
7	Hungarian (hu) Torkos csütörtök		29
8	Bulgarian (bg) Дебел четвъртък		12
9	Russian (ru) Жирный четверг		12
10	Chinese (zh) 肥胖星期四		10

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) Fat Thursday		2
2	Arabic (ar) الخميس البدين		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Дебел четвъртък		0
4	Catalan (ca) Dijous gras		0
5	German (de) Schmotziger Donnerstag		0
6	Greek (el) Γλυκοπέμπτη		0
7	Spanish (es) Jueves lardero		0
8	Basque (eu) Lardero eguna		0
9	Persian (fa) پنجشنبه چاق		0
10	Finnish (fi) Rasvatorstai		0

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

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