Ah Long

Loan shark - person who offered loans with extremely high interest rates, often with strict terms of collection. Article “Ah Long” in Malay Wikipedia has 33.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ah Long”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 656 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 1503 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #562 in October 2022
• Global: #19894 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #854 in June 2009
• Global: #27956 in February 2020

There are 16 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) Loan shark		51.6694
2	Malay (ms) Ah Long		33.5647
3	German (de) Kredithai		33.4475
4	Arabic (ar) مرابي القروض		31.8082
5	Vietnamese (vi) Người cho vay nặng lãi		24.1304
6	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		22.9345
7	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		22.4808
8	Thai (th) เงินกู้นอกระบบ		20.738
9	Turkish (tr) Tefeci		18.6329
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кредитні акули		15.7446

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Loan shark		4 549 290
2	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		1 230 249
3	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		860 921
4	Indonesian (id) Rentenir		172 296
5	German (de) Kredithai		160 239
6	Croatian (hr) Lihvar		62 469
7	Malay (ms) Ah Long		58 485
8	Serbian (sr) Зеленаш		49 943
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kamatarenje		17 541
10	Turkish (tr) Tefeci		16 888

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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 "Ah Long" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Loan shark		13 887
2	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		2 023
3	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		816
4	German (de) Kredithai		406
5	Malay (ms) Ah Long		229
6	Serbian (sr) Зеленаш		161
7	Indonesian (id) Rentenir		150
8	Turkish (tr) Tefeci		146
9	Persian (fa) نزول‌خوار		65
10	Simple English (simple) Loan shark		56

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Loan shark		339
2	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		119
3	German (de) Kredithai		57
4	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		45
5	Indonesian (id) Rentenir		26
6	Serbian (sr) Зеленаш		14
7	Simple English (simple) Loan shark		13
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кредитні акули		8
9	Thai (th) เงินกู้นอกระบบ		7
10	Croatian (hr) Lihvar		6

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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 "Ah Long" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		2
2	Arabic (ar) مرابي القروض		1
3	Persian (fa) نزول‌خوار		1
4	Croatian (hr) Lihvar		1
5	German (de) Kredithai		0
6	English (en) Loan shark		0
7	Indonesian (id) Rentenir		0
8	Malay (ms) Ah Long		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		0
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kamatarenje		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 "Ah Long" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Loan shark		892
2	Japanese (ja) 闇金融		220
3	Portuguese (pt) Agiotagem		138
4	German (de) Kredithai		64
5	Indonesian (id) Rentenir		51
6	Persian (fa) نزول‌خوار		25
7	Malay (ms) Ah Long		25
8	Serbian (sr) Зеленаш		23
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кредитні акули		21
10	Arabic (ar) مرابي القروض		11

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مرابي القروض
de	German Kredithai
en	English Loan shark
fa	Persian نزول‌خوار
hr	Croatian Lihvar
id	Indonesian Rentenir
ja	Japanese 闇金融
ms	Malay Ah Long
pt	Portuguese Agiotagem
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kamatarenje
simple	Simple English Loan shark
sr	Serbian Зеленаш
th	Thai เงินกู้นอกระบบ
tr	Turkish Tefeci
uk	Ukrainian Кредитні акули
vi	Vietnamese Người cho vay nặng lãi

Best Rank

Malay: #854 06.2009

Global: #27956 02.2020

Best Rank

Malay: #562 10.2022

Global: #19894 03.2004

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