Something Awful

Quality:

Something Awful - comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka. This website is the 453^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 282^nd most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Something Awful” in English Wikipedia has 53.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 43 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6859^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 282^nd most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 453^rd most popular in websites.

In June 2025 the article “Something Awful” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Something Awful”, its content was written by 976 registered users of English Wikipedia (6859^th place) and edited by 1055 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Something Awful is on the 282^nd place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 453^rd place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 196 times in English Wikipedia and cited 269 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23 in November 2004
• Global: #192 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2267 in April 2014
• Global: #8239 in April 2014

There are 10 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	English (en) Something Awful		53.48
2	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		23.0154
3	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		22.0552
4	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		21.6739
5	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		20.8136
6	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		18.0995
7	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		9.5482
8	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		6.1827
9	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		3.9235
10	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		1.1915

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Something Awful		4 174 067
2	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		26 324
3	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		14 266
4	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		10 971
5	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		7 022
6	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		6 967
7	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		3 131
8	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		2 811
9	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		2 066
10	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		947

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) Something Awful		13 320
2	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		579
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		112
4	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		93
5	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		33
6	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		28
7	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		15
8	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		15
9	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		12
10	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		6

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Something Awful		976
2	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		21
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		16
4	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		13
5	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		11
6	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		6
7	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		5
8	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		3
9	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		2
10	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		2

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	English (en) Something Awful		1
2	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		0
3	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		0
4	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		0
5	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		0
6	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		0
7	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		0
8	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		0
9	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		0
10	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		0

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

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