Practical effect

Practical effect - real-world (non-visual) special effect for cinema. Article “Practical effect” in English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.7 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Practical effect”, its content was written by 51 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 95 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 243 times in English Wikipedia and cited 551 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #35688 in April 2004
• Global: #52382 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #101425 in July 2017
• Global: #176498 in July 2017

There are 11 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	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		36.0947
2	Dutch (nl) Special effects		28.6289
3	Japanese (ja) 操演		22.2698
4	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		21.3374
5	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		13.9597
6	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		13.8999
7	English (en) Practical effect		13.3143
8	Korean (ko) 실제 특수 효과		10.6664
9	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		7.9168
10	Chinese (zh) 现场特效		2.134

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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 effect" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Practical effect		603 000
2	Japanese (ja) 操演		59 405
3	Dutch (nl) Special effects		33 681
4	Chinese (zh) 现场特效		3 342
5	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		3 137
6	Arabic (ar) مؤثرات عملية		1 618
7	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		852
8	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		788
9	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		456
10	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		266

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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 effect" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Practical effect		1 813
2	Japanese (ja) 操演		177
3	Chinese (zh) 现场特效		110
4	Dutch (nl) Special effects		100
5	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		46
6	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		23
7	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		15
8	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		6
9	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		6
10	Korean (ko) 실제 특수 효과		3

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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 effect" 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 effect		51
2	Japanese (ja) 操演		12
3	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		11
4	Dutch (nl) Special effects		7
5	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		3
6	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		3
7	Arabic (ar) مؤثرات عملية		2
8	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		2
9	Chinese (zh) 现场特效		2
10	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		1

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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 effect" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مؤثرات عملية		1
2	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		1
3	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		0
4	English (en) Practical effect		0
5	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		0
6	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		0
7	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		0
8	Japanese (ja) 操演		0
9	Korean (ko) 실제 특수 효과		0
10	Dutch (nl) Special effects		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 effect" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Practical effect		243
2	Japanese (ja) 操演		83
3	Dutch (nl) Special effects		80
4	Arabic (ar) مؤثرات عملية		52
5	Chinese (zh) 现场特效		36
6	Spanish (es) Efecto especial manual		16
7	Indonesian (id) Efek praktis		14
8	French (fr) Effets spéciaux pratiques		12
9	Catalan (ca) Efectes pràctics		6
10	Persian (fa) جلوه‌های فیزیکی		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مؤثرات عملية
ca	Catalan Efectes pràctics
en	English Practical effect
es	Spanish Efecto especial manual
fa	Persian جلوه‌های فیزیکی
fr	French Effets spéciaux pratiques
id	Indonesian Efek praktis
ja	Japanese 操演
ko	Korean 실제 특수 효과
nl	Dutch Special effects
zh	Chinese 现场特效

Best Rank

English: #101425 07.2017

Global: #176498 07.2017

Best Rank

English: #35688 04.2004

Global: #52382 09.2004

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