October surprise

Quality:

October surprise - news event deliberately created or timed or sometimes occurring spontaneously to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the U.S. presidency. Article “October surprise” in English Wikipedia has 71.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 112 references and 25 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 “October surprise” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “October surprise”, its content was written by 402 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 535 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 231 times in English Wikipedia and cited 857 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67 in October 2020
• Global: #478 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3377 in October 2020
• Global: #8095 in October 2020

There are 12 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) October surprise		71.6058
2	Catalan (ca) October surprise		50.1101
3	German (de) October Surprise		41.6623
4	Hebrew (he) הפתעת אוקטובר		35.9919
5	Ukrainian (uk) Жовтневий сюрприз		33.7167
6	Russian (ru) Октябрьский сюрприз		26.3544
7	Persian (fa) غافلگیری اکتبر		25.1125
8	Chinese (zh) 十月惊奇		17.8312
9	Japanese (ja) オクトーバーサプライズ		16.2433
10	Italian (it) Cospirazione della sorpresa d'ottobre		14.7482

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) October surprise		1 463 521
2	German (de) October Surprise		76 254
3	Japanese (ja) オクトーバーサプライズ		41 460
4	Persian (fa) غافلگیری اکتبر		21 345
5	Spanish (es) Sorpresa de octubre		20 200
6	Italian (it) Cospirazione della sorpresa d'ottobre		19 703
7	Chinese (zh) 十月惊奇		5 287
8	Korean (ko) 10월의 이변		5 198
9	Hebrew (he) הפתעת אוקטובר		5 089
10	Ukrainian (uk) Жовтневий сюрприз		970

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) October surprise		3 850
2	Japanese (ja) オクトーバーサプライズ		175
3	German (de) October Surprise		140
4	Hebrew (he) הפתעת אוקטובר		102
5	Persian (fa) غافلگیری اکتبر		71
6	Spanish (es) Sorpresa de octubre		58
7	Russian (ru) Октябрьский сюрприз		56
8	Chinese (zh) 十月惊奇		56
9	Italian (it) Cospirazione della sorpresa d'ottobre		47
10	Catalan (ca) October surprise		39

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) October surprise		402
2	German (de) October Surprise		35
3	Hebrew (he) הפתעת אוקטובר		27
4	Italian (it) Cospirazione della sorpresa d'ottobre		19
5	Spanish (es) Sorpresa de octubre		16
6	Japanese (ja) オクトーバーサプライズ		11
7	Persian (fa) غافلگیری اکتبر		10
8	Ukrainian (uk) Жовтневий сюрприз		4
9	Chinese (zh) 十月惊奇		4
10	Korean (ko) 10월의 이변		3

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) October surprise		1
2	Catalan (ca) October surprise		0
3	German (de) October Surprise		0
4	Spanish (es) Sorpresa de octubre		0
5	Persian (fa) غافلگیری اکتبر		0
6	Hebrew (he) הפתעת אוקטובר		0
7	Italian (it) Cospirazione della sorpresa d'ottobre		0
8	Japanese (ja) オクトーバーサプライズ		0
9	Korean (ko) 10월의 이변		0
10	Russian (ru) Октябрьский сюрприз		0

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

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