Texte Zalgo

Zalgo text - distorted text containing an excess of unusual and non-meaningful combining characters, with no other goal than to obscure it with a glitchy layout, making it difficult to reproduce and read. Article “Texte Zalgo” in French Wikipedia has 22.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Texte Zalgo”, its content was written by 5 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 85 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in French Wikipedia and cited 10 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #2593 in March 2025
• Global: #47009 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #228937 in April 2025
• Global: #111672 in April 2021

There are 5 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	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		36.7149
2	English (en) Zalgo text		33.7784
3	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		33.636
4	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		31.4465
5	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		22.6315

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zalgo text		481 118
2	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		13 608
3	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		1 153
4	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		463
5	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		416

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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 "Texte Zalgo" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zalgo text		7 875
2	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		264
3	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		164
4	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		19
5	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zalgo text		74
2	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		5
3	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		3
4	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		2
5	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		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 "Texte Zalgo" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zalgo text		2
2	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		0
3	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		0
4	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		0
5	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		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 "Texte Zalgo" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Zalgo text		8
2	French (fr) Texte Zalgo		2
3	Catalan (ca) Text Zalgo		0
4	Spanish (es) Texto zalgo		0
5	Malay (ms) Teks Zalgo		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Text Zalgo
en	English Zalgo text
es	Spanish Texto zalgo
fr	French Texte Zalgo
ms	Malay Teks Zalgo

Best Rank

French: #228937 04.2025

Global: #111672 04.2021

Best Rank

French: #2593 03.2025

Global: #47009 04.2023

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