Flaming (Internet term)

Flaming - online act of posting insults, often laced with profanity or other offensive language on social networking sites. Article “Flaming (Internet term)” in English Wikipedia has 57.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 66 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.01 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.

Since the creation of article “Flaming (Internet term)”, its content was written by 644 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1539 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 221 times in English Wikipedia and cited 791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #32 in April 2001
• Global: #33 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22441 in April 2009
• Global: #22321 in April 2009

There are 27 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) Flaming (Internet term)		57.1452
2	Greek (el) Εμπρηστική γλώσσα		33.1425
3	Indonesian (id) Pancing sulut		29.3055
4	Hungarian (hu) Flame war		28.0494
5	Dutch (nl) Flaming		25.2613
6	Estonian (et) Leim		23.1094
7	Norwegian (no) Flaming		21.9024
8	Polish (pl) Flejm		21.8419
9	Spanish (es) Flame		21.8042
10	French (fr) Flaming (informatique)		20.7213

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Flaming (Internet term)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flaming (Internet term)		2 930 954
2	Russian (ru) Флейм		866 698
3	Spanish (es) Flame		375 815
4	Korean (ko) 악성 댓글		324 691
5	Polish (pl) Flejm		315 663
6	German (de) Flame (Netzkultur)		261 221
7	French (fr) Flaming (informatique)		149 253
8	Portuguese (pt) Flaming		148 724
9	Czech (cs) Flame war		117 788
10	Italian (it) Flame (Internet)		115 840

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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 "Flaming (Internet term)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flaming (Internet term)		3 218
2	German (de) Flame (Netzkultur)		353
3	Chinese (zh) 網路論戰		323
4	Russian (ru) Флейм		301
5	French (fr) Flaming (informatique)		159
6	Spanish (es) Flame		149
7	Korean (ko) 악성 댓글		133
8	Italian (it) Flame (Internet)		121
9	Japanese (ja) フレーミング (ネット用語)		97
10	Portuguese (pt) Flaming		97

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flaming (Internet term)		644
2	German (de) Flame (Netzkultur)		133
3	French (fr) Flaming (informatique)		100
4	Russian (ru) Флейм		77
5	Italian (it) Flame (Internet)		74
6	Korean (ko) 악성 댓글		64
7	Portuguese (pt) Flaming		54
8	Spanish (es) Flame		52
9	Czech (cs) Flame war		49
10	Polish (pl) Flejm		38

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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 "Flaming (Internet term)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Pancing sulut		1
2	Arabic (ar) مضايقة (إنترنت)		0
3	Belarusian (be) Флэйм		0
4	Catalan (ca) Resposta irada		0
5	Czech (cs) Flame war		0
6	German (de) Flame (Netzkultur)		0
7	Greek (el) Εμπρηστική γλώσσα		0
8	English (en) Flaming (Internet term)		0
9	Spanish (es) Flame		0
10	Estonian (et) Leim		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 "Flaming (Internet term)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Flaming (Internet term)		221
2	Finnish (fi) Flame		92
3	Chinese (zh) 網路論戰		69
4	Korean (ko) 악성 댓글		49
5	Persian (fa) شعله (اینترنت)		38
6	Arabic (ar) مضايقة (إنترنت)		33
7	German (de) Flame (Netzkultur)		29
8	Greek (el) Εμπρηστική γλώσσα		29
9	Spanish (es) Flame		29
10	Russian (ru) Флейм		25

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مضايقة (إنترنت)
be	Belarusian Флэйм
ca	Catalan Resposta irada
cs	Czech Flame war
de	German Flame (Netzkultur)
el	Greek Εμπρηστική γλώσσα
en	English Flaming (Internet term)
es	Spanish Flame
et	Estonian Leim
fa	Persian شعله (اینترنت)
fi	Finnish Flame
fr	French Flaming (informatique)
he	Hebrew שלהוב
hu	Hungarian Flame war
id	Indonesian Pancing sulut
it	Italian Flame (Internet)
ja	Japanese フレーミング (ネット用語)
ko	Korean 악성 댓글
nl	Dutch Flaming
no	Norwegian Flaming
pl	Polish Flejm
pt	Portuguese Flaming
ru	Russian Флейм
sk	Slovak Flame war
sv	Swedish Flejma
uk	Ukrainian Флейм
zh	Chinese 網路論戰

Best Rank

English: #22441 04.2009

Global: #22321 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #32 04.2001

Global: #33 04.2001

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