Pump and dump

Quality:
9

Pump and dump - form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned microcap stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price. Article "Pump and dump" in English Wikipedia has 55 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 45 references and 10 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "Pump and dump" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Pump and dump", its content was written by 220 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 342 times in English Wikipedia and cited 622 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #11704 in May 2003
  • Global: #19033 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #3238 in January 2014
  • Global: #9905 in January 2014

There are 15 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Pump and dump
54.9931
2Armenian (hy)
Pump and Dump
35.2792
3German (de)
Pump and Dump
33.1109
4Russian (ru)
Pump and Dump
29.5146
5Portuguese (pt)
Pump and dump
26.3483
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Pump and dump" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Pump and dump
4 399 778
2Japanese (ja)
風説の流布
591 463
3Spanish (es)
Pump and dump
195 203
4Russian (ru)
Pump and Dump
129 205
5German (de)
Pump and Dump
103 824
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Pump and dump" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Pump and dump
16 934
2Russian (ru)
Pump and Dump
1 558
3Japanese (ja)
風説の流布
1 311
4German (de)
Pump and Dump
852
5Spanish (es)
Pump and dump
828
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Pump and dump" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Pump and dump
220
2Japanese (ja)
風説の流布
33
3Spanish (es)
Pump and dump
19
4German (de)
Pump and Dump
17
5French (fr)
Pump and dump
14
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Pump and dump" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Pump and dump
1
2French (fr)
Pump and dump
1
3Japanese (ja)
風説の流布
1
4Arabic (ar)
بامب أند دامب
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Pump and Dump
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Pump and dump" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Pump and dump
342
2Japanese (ja)
風説の流布
215
3German (de)
Pump and Dump
12
4Spanish (es)
Pump and dump
12
5French (fr)
Pump and dump
10
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بامب أند دامب
azAzerbaijani
Pump and Dump
deGerman
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enEnglish
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esSpanish
Pump and dump
faPersian
بالا ببر و بفروش
fiFinnish
Pump and dump
frFrench
Pump and dump
hyArmenian
Pump and Dump
jaJapanese
風説の流布
plPolish
Pump and dump
ptPortuguese
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ruRussian
Pump and Dump
simpleSimple English
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trTurkish
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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3238
01.2014
Global:
#9905
01.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#11704
05.2003
Global:
#19033
05.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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