Black bloc

Quality:

Black bloc - tactic used by left-wing protesters who wear black clothing and masks; used to conceal wearers' identities from the police and politically opposing organizationg, protect from the pepper spray and making group look like large unified mass. Article “Black bloc” in French Wikipedia has 74.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 138 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.92 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Black bloc”, its content was written by 248 registered users of French Wikipedia (7634^th place) and edited by 1434 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 101 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2669 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #80 in May 2018
• Global: #1885 in June 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #29 in May 2018
• Global: #3092 in July 2017

There are 30 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	English (en) Black bloc		85.5855
2	French (fr) Black bloc		74.3973
3	Chinese (zh) 黑群		65.5652
4	German (de) Schwarzer Block		57.6666
5	Armenian (hy) Սև բլոկ		53.914
6	Catalan (ca) Bloc negre		40.555
7	Romanian (ro) Black bloc		36.454
8	Portuguese (pt) Black bloc		34.969
9	Spanish (es) Bloque negro		34.9255
10	Japanese (ja) ブラック・ブロック		29.9041

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black bloc		3 118 086
2	French (fr) Black bloc		1 718 181
3	Italian (it) Black bloc		1 096 130
4	German (de) Schwarzer Block		1 056 527
5	Portuguese (pt) Black bloc		1 026 107
6	Spanish (es) Bloque negro		302 239
7	Russian (ru) Чёрный блок		121 852
8	Polish (pl) Czarny blok		98 443
9	Arabic (ar) بلاك بلوك		92 595
10	Chinese (zh) 黑群		76 907

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Black bloc		11 334
2	English (en) Black bloc		9 621
3	Italian (it) Black bloc		2 583
4	German (de) Schwarzer Block		2 185
5	Spanish (es) Bloque negro		1 042
6	Japanese (ja) ブラック・ブロック		606
7	Portuguese (pt) Black bloc		587
8	Chinese (zh) 黑群		263
9	Russian (ru) Чёрный блок		251
10	Polish (pl) Czarny blok		190

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black bloc		388
2	French (fr) Black bloc		248
3	German (de) Schwarzer Block		228
4	Italian (it) Black bloc		125
5	Portuguese (pt) Black bloc		62
6	Hebrew (he) גוש שחור		40
7	Dutch (nl) Zwart Blok		35
8	Polish (pl) Czarny blok		35
9	Russian (ru) Чёрный блок		33
10	Spanish (es) Bloque negro		30

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) Black bloc		3
2	Spanish (es) Bloque negro		2
3	German (de) Schwarzer Block		1
4	Chinese (zh) 黑群		1
5	Arabic (ar) بلاك بلوك		0
6	Catalan (ca) Bloc negre		0
7	Czech (cs) Black Bloc		0
8	Danish (da) Sort blok		0
9	Greek (el) Μαύρο Μπλοκ		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Nigra bloko		0

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

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