Sexual grooming

Quality:

Child grooming - act of befriending and connecting with a child with the objective of sexual abuse. Article “Sexual grooming” in English Wikipedia has 63.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 14 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Sexual grooming” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sexual grooming”, its content was written by 415 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 915 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 799 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2008 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3432 in March 2023
• Global: #8892 in July 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9628 in February 2016
• Global: #6669 in March 2025

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 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	Malay (ms) Antun kanak-kanak		83.3333
2	Japanese (ja) グルーミング (性犯罪)		73.4652
3	English (en) Sexual grooming		63.5337
4	Portuguese (pt) Aliciamento sexual		62.713
5	Chinese (zh) 兒童性誘拐		44.7663
6	Thai (th) การเตรียมเด็กเพื่อทารุณกรรมทางเพศ		42.2951
7	Uzbek (uz) Bolalarni gruming qilish		42.0211
8	Hebrew (he) פיתוי קטינים לפעילות מינית		39.4817
9	Spanish (es) Engaño pederasta		38.4576
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chăn dắt tình dục		32.894

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sexual grooming		6 711 700
2	Spanish (es) Engaño pederasta		3 427 730
3	Portuguese (pt) Aliciamento sexual		563 119
4	German (de) Grooming (Pädokriminalität)		402 882
5	Russian (ru) Груминг детей		344 375
6	Polish (pl) Child grooming		343 837
7	Japanese (ja) グルーミング (性犯罪)		281 795
8	Dutch (nl) Grooming (zedenmisdrijf)		243 213
9	Swedish (sv) Gromning		181 653
10	Finnish (fi) Grooming		111 303

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) Sexual grooming		26 124
2	German (de) Grooming (Pädokriminalität)		10 023
3	Russian (ru) Груминг детей		5 837
4	Spanish (es) Engaño pederasta		4 523
5	French (fr) Grooming (abus sexuel)		3 217
6	Ukrainian (uk) Грумінг (психологія)		2 373
7	Polish (pl) Child grooming		2 315
8	Japanese (ja) グルーミング (性犯罪)		2 117
9	Portuguese (pt) Aliciamento sexual		746
10	Dutch (nl) Grooming (zedenmisdrijf)		596

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sexual grooming		415
2	Spanish (es) Engaño pederasta		146
3	German (de) Grooming (Pädokriminalität)		40
4	Japanese (ja) グルーミング (性犯罪)		29
5	Polish (pl) Child grooming		28
6	French (fr) Grooming (abus sexuel)		25
7	Swedish (sv) Gromning		25
8	Simple English (simple) Child grooming		23
9	Portuguese (pt) Aliciamento sexual		20
10	Dutch (nl) Grooming (zedenmisdrijf)		19

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	Hebrew (he) פיתוי קטינים לפעילות מינית		5
2	French (fr) Grooming (abus sexuel)		3
3	Persian (fa) اغفال جنسی تدریجی		2
4	Catalan (ca) Ciberseducció de menors		1
5	English (en) Sexual grooming		1
6	Japanese (ja) グルーミング (性犯罪)		1
7	Simple English (simple) Child grooming		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Грумінг (психологія)		1
9	Arabic (ar) استمالة الأطفال		0
10	Belarusian (be) Сексуальны грумінг		0

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

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