Shill

Shill - person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. Article “Shill” in English Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.56 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Shill”, its content was written by 295 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 436 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 424 times in English Wikipedia and cited 630 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2052 in May 2002
• Global: #3078 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31222 in July 2009
• Global: #49692 in July 2009

There are 9 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	Chinese (zh) 托儿		33.0673
2	English (en) Shill		29.719
3	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		28.624
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		24.811
5	French (fr) Faux client		19.6297
6	Simple English (simple) Shill		16.7876
7	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		14.0013
8	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		12.6907
9	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		11.2684

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shill		3 299 074
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		873 881
3	Chinese (zh) 托儿		86 860
4	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		78 343
5	Simple English (simple) Shill		5 219
6	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		3 141
7	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		1 802
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		378
9	French (fr) Faux client		135

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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 "Shill" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shill		5 079
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		1 668
3	Chinese (zh) 托儿		284
4	French (fr) Faux client		130
5	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		126
6	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		87
7	Simple English (simple) Shill		63
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		19
9	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		12

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shill		295
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		65
3	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		45
4	Chinese (zh) 托儿		17
5	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		6
6	Simple English (simple) Shill		3
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		3
8	French (fr) Faux client		1
9	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		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 "Shill" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Faux client		1
2	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		0
3	English (en) Shill		0
4	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		0
5	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		0
6	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		0
7	Simple English (simple) Shill		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		0
9	Chinese (zh) 托儿		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 "Shill" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shill		424
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		119
3	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		41
4	Chinese (zh) 托儿		17
5	Simple English (simple) Shill		13
6	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		8
7	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		7
8	French (fr) Faux client		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chân gỗ		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Lockvogel (Person)
en	English Shill
fa	Persian شیل (بازاریابی)
fr	French Faux client
ja	Japanese サクラ (おとり)
ko	Korean 야바위꾼
simple	Simple English Shill
vi	Vietnamese Chân gỗ
zh	Chinese 托儿

Best Rank

English: #31222 07.2009

Global: #49692 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #2052 05.2002

Global: #3078 05.2002

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