Practical joke

Practical joke - act meant to produce humor by causing annoyance, alarm, confusion, discomfort, or embarrassment, but no lasting harm. Article "Practical joke" in English Wikipedia has 49 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 33 references and 8 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In July 2024 the article "Practical joke" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Practical joke", its content was written by 816 registered users of English Wikipedia (9687^th place) and edited by 1617 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 779 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2837 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3095 in April 2011
• Global: #9318 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12664 in April 2009
• Global: #19052 in April 2009

There are 31 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	Czech (cs) Recese (žert)		50.3592
2	English (en) Practical joke		49.0491
3	Russian (ru) Розыгрыш (шутка)		48.1362
4	Norwegian (no) Narrestrek		35.1339
5	Italian (it) Scherzo		34.4253
6	Armenian (hy) Խաղարկային կատակ		31.1129
7	Ukrainian (uk) Розіграш		29.3919
8	Malay (ms) Lawak terapan		28.7376
9	Korean (ko) 장난 (행위)		27.0795
10	Turkish (tr) Şaka		26.4294

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Practical joke" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Practical joke		3 057 713
2	Russian (ru) Розыгрыш (шутка)		1 743 288
3	Japanese (ja) 悪戯		468 385
4	Spanish (es) Broma		327 214
5	Portuguese (pt) Pegadinha		281 864
6	German (de) Streich		248 718
7	Italian (it) Scherzo		182 649
8	Chinese (zh) 惡作劇		105 642
9	Czech (cs) Recese (žert)		102 604
10	Swedish (sv) Practical joke		62 826

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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 "Practical joke" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Practical joke		7 172
2	Russian (ru) Розыгрыш (шутка)		1 287
3	Japanese (ja) 悪戯		1 073
4	German (de) Streich		928
5	Spanish (es) Broma		730
6	Portuguese (pt) Pegadinha		543
7	Persian (fa) شوخی دستی		520
8	Chinese (zh) 惡作劇		474
9	Czech (cs) Recese (žert)		405
10	Turkish (tr) Şaka		380

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Practical joke		816
2	German (de) Streich		119
3	Japanese (ja) 悪戯		90
4	Italian (it) Scherzo		79
5	Spanish (es) Broma		67
6	Hebrew (he) מתיחה		58
7	Portuguese (pt) Pegadinha		58
8	Norwegian (no) Narrestrek		47
9	Dutch (nl) Practical joke		43
10	Swedish (sv) Practical joke		41

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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 "Practical joke" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Practical joke		4
2	Danish (da) Practical joke		1
3	Persian (fa) شوخی دستی		1
4	Simple English (simple) Practical jokes		1
5	Arabic (ar) مقلب		0
6	Catalan (ca) Broma (facècia)		0
7	Czech (cs) Recese (žert)		0
8	German (de) Streich		0
9	Greek (el) Φάρσα		0
10	Spanish (es) Broma		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 "Practical joke" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Practical joke		779
2	Japanese (ja) 悪戯		454
3	Chinese (zh) 惡作劇		253
4	Hebrew (he) מתיחה		161
5	German (de) Streich		149
6	Spanish (es) Broma		124
7	Portuguese (pt) Pegadinha		121
8	Norwegian (no) Narrestrek		88
9	Italian (it) Scherzo		83
10	Czech (cs) Recese (žert)		81

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مقلب
ca	Catalan Broma (facècia)
cs	Czech Recese (žert)
da	Danish Practical joke
de	German Streich
el	Greek Φάρσα
en	English Practical joke
es	Spanish Broma
eu	Basque Txantxa
fa	Persian شوخی دستی
fr	French Farce (canular)
he	Hebrew מתיחה
hy	Armenian Խաղարկային կատակ
id	Indonesian Lelucon praktik
it	Italian Scherzo
ja	Japanese 悪戯
ko	Korean 장난 (행위)
ms	Malay Lawak terapan
nl	Dutch Practical joke
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Gapstrek
no	Norwegian Narrestrek
pl	Polish Psikus
pt	Portuguese Pegadinha
ru	Russian Розыгрыш (шутка)
simple	Simple English Practical jokes
sv	Swedish Practical joke
tr	Turkish Şaka
uk	Ukrainian Розіграш
ur	Urdu پرینک
vi	Vietnamese Trò chơi khăm
zh	Chinese 惡作劇

Best Rank

English: #12664 04.2009

Global: #19052 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #3095 04.2011

Global: #9318 02.2006

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