Kaffir (racial term)

Quality:

Kaffir - a slur used to refer to indigenous black people in South Africa; derived from the Arabic term for "unbeliever", i.e. pagan. Article "Kaffir (racial term)" in English Wikipedia has 51.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 34 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In July 2024 the article "Kaffir (racial term)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Kaffir (racial term)", its content was written by 364 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 751 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 233 times in English Wikipedia and cited 622 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3053 in July 2020
• Global: #9208 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9329 in August 2018
• Global: #20871 in August 2018

There are 18 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Malay (ms) Kapri		71.5684
2	English (en) Kaffir (racial term)		51.3674
3	Arabic (ar) كافري		37.2835
4	German (de) Kaffer		32.7787
5	Dutch (nl) Kaffer		30.992
6	Ukrainian (uk) Кафр		26.2968
7	Russian (ru) Кафр		25.9258
8	Finnish (fi) Kafferit		25.8489
9	Norwegian (no) Kaffer		23.4639
10	Portuguese (pt) Cafre		22.8081

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kaffir (racial term)		3 423 956
2	German (de) Kaffer		411 364
3	French (fr) Cafres		302 247
4	Dutch (nl) Kaffer		174 505
5	Russian (ru) Кафр		145 388
6	Swedish (sv) Kaffrer		84 146
7	Finnish (fi) Kafferit		50 723
8	Portuguese (pt) Cafre		50 689
9	Norwegian (no) Kaffer		25 087
10	Danish (da) Kaffer (raceterm)		23 878

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) Kaffir (racial term)		26 261
2	Dutch (nl) Kaffer		4 352
3	French (fr) Cafres		3 137
4	Finnish (fi) Kafferit		2 274
5	German (de) Kaffer		1 972
6	Russian (ru) Кафр		1 010
7	Swedish (sv) Kaffrer		643
8	Portuguese (pt) Cafre		572
9	Norwegian (no) Kaffer		146
10	Danish (da) Kaffer (raceterm)		134

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kaffir (racial term)		364
2	German (de) Kaffer		91
3	French (fr) Cafres		75
4	Dutch (nl) Kaffer		74
5	Norwegian (no) Kaffer		28
6	Swedish (sv) Kaffrer		23
7	Portuguese (pt) Cafre		20
8	Danish (da) Kaffer (raceterm)		16
9	Russian (ru) Кафр		15
10	Finnish (fi) Kafferit		12

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	Dutch (nl) Kaffer		9
2	French (fr) Cafres		2
3	English (en) Kaffir (racial term)		1
4	Finnish (fi) Kafferit		1
5	Russian (ru) Кафр		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Кафр		1
7	Arabic (ar) كافري		0
8	Danish (da) Kaffer (raceterm)		0
9	German (de) Kaffer		0
10	Basque (eu) Kafre		0

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

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