Spoils system

Quality:

Spoils system - practice where a newly elected political party gives civil service jobs to supporters and cronies. Article “Spoils system” in Italian Wikipedia has 12.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.65 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Spoils system”, its content was written by 51 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 895 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #8708 in February 2015
• Global: #5106 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #923 in November 2018
• Global: #12006 in November 2025

There are 21 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) Spoils system		52.0394
2	Korean (ko) 엽관제		37.212
3	Hebrew (he) שיטת השלל		32.338
4	Finnish (fi) Spoils-järjestelmä		30.5206
5	Polish (pl) Patronaż		29.7527
6	French (fr) Système des dépouilles		24.9117
7	Kazakh (kk) Spoil system		22.0609
8	German (de) Spoils System		21.4218
9	Turkish (tr) Kadrolaşma		17.4449
10	Portuguese (pt) Spoils system		14.3214

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spoils system		3 965 963
2	Italian (it) Spoils system		475 460
3	Japanese (ja) 猟官制		253 696
4	French (fr) Système des dépouilles		117 511
5	German (de) Spoils System		79 388
6	Korean (ko) 엽관제		67 669
7	Chinese (zh) 獵官制		35 706
8	Russian (ru) Делёж добычи		31 498
9	Polish (pl) Patronaż		23 038
10	Spanish (es) Spoils system		21 893

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) Spoils system		14 387
2	German (de) Spoils System		717
3	Japanese (ja) 猟官制		488
4	Italian (it) Spoils system		367
5	French (fr) Système des dépouilles		341
6	Chinese (zh) 獵官制		195
7	Russian (ru) Делёж добычи		135
8	Korean (ko) 엽관제		122
9	Spanish (es) Spoils system		112
10	Persian (fa) سیستم تاراج		48

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spoils system		349
2	French (fr) Système des dépouilles		52
3	Italian (it) Spoils system		51
4	German (de) Spoils System		45
5	Japanese (ja) 猟官制		35
6	Spanish (es) Spoils system		19
7	Danish (da) Spoilssystemet		14
8	Hungarian (hu) Zsákmányrendszer		13
9	Russian (ru) Делёж добычи		13
10	Polish (pl) Patronaż		12

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) Spoils system		3
2	Hebrew (he) שיטת השלל		2
3	French (fr) Système des dépouilles		1
4	Polish (pl) Patronaż		1
5	Romanian (ro) Sistem de pradă		1
6	Danish (da) Spoilssystemet		0
7	German (de) Spoils System		0
8	Spanish (es) Spoils system		0
9	Persian (fa) سیستم تاراج		0
10	Finnish (fi) Spoils-järjestelmä		0

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

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