Protection racket

Protection racket - extortion scheme. Article “Protection racket” in English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.27 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Protection racket”, its content was written by 181 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 467 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 492 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1427 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15208 in June 2004
• Global: #29654 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53299 in September 2015
• Global: #41468 in August 2021

There are 14 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	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		41.8079
2	Chinese (zh) 保护费		41.2581
3	English (en) Protection racket		24.1217
4	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		23.9075
5	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		23.2068
6	Russian (ru) Крышевание		22.5437
7	Vietnamese (vi) Bảo kê		18.0297
8	Polish (pl) Haracz		15.3091
9	Indonesian (id) Jaminan perlindungan		9.4292
10	Czech (cs) Výpalné		2.1507

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Protection racket" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protection racket		2 231 899
2	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		434 780
3	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		410 436
4	Polish (pl) Haracz		312 081
5	Russian (ru) Крышевание		305 234
6	Chinese (zh) 保护费		69 090
7	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		68 313
8	Swedish (sv) Beskyddarverksamhet		31 794
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bảo kê		28 526
10	Czech (cs) Výpalné		22 765

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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 "Protection racket" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protection racket		12 483
2	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		2 882
3	Russian (ru) Крышевание		1 445
4	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		799
5	Polish (pl) Haracz		411
6	Chinese (zh) 保护费		355
7	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		291
8	Czech (cs) Výpalné		149
9	Swedish (sv) Beskyddarverksamhet		83
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bảo kê		80

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Protection racket		181
2	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		87
3	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		45
4	Russian (ru) Крышевание		37
5	Polish (pl) Haracz		31
6	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		27
7	Vietnamese (vi) Bảo kê		17
8	Chinese (zh) 保护费		17
9	Swedish (sv) Beskyddarverksamhet		8
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кришування бізнесу		6

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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 "Protection racket" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 保护费		1
2	Czech (cs) Výpalné		0
3	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		0
4	English (en) Protection racket		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Protektomono		0
6	Finnish (fi) Suojeluraha		0
7	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		0
8	Indonesian (id) Jaminan perlindungan		0
9	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		0
10	Polish (pl) Haracz		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 "Protection racket" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Protection racket		492
2	German (de) Schutzgelderpressung		219
3	Japanese (ja) みかじめ料		199
4	Hebrew (he) דמי חסות		134
5	Russian (ru) Крышевание		119
6	Polish (pl) Haracz		79
7	Chinese (zh) 保护费		62
8	Swedish (sv) Beskyddarverksamhet		31
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кришування бізнесу		26
10	Czech (cs) Výpalné		24

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Výpalné
de	German Schutzgelderpressung
en	English Protection racket
eo	Esperanto Protektomono
fi	Finnish Suojeluraha
he	Hebrew דמי חסות
id	Indonesian Jaminan perlindungan
ja	Japanese みかじめ料
pl	Polish Haracz
ru	Russian Крышевание
sv	Swedish Beskyddarverksamhet
uk	Ukrainian Кришування бізнесу
vi	Vietnamese Bảo kê
zh	Chinese 保护费

Best Rank

English: #53299 09.2015

Global: #41468 08.2021

Best Rank

English: #15208 06.2004

Global: #29654 01.2003

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