Fad

Fad - thing or behavior that achieves intense short-lived popularity and then fades away. Article “Fad” in Malay Wikipedia has 35.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 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 “Fad”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 690 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 1491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #4779 in March 2020
• Global: #9824 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #27804 in November 2024
• Global: #24946 in January 2008

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, 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) Fad		51.5694
2	Korean (ko) 유행		39.9308
3	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		36.6407
4	Malay (ms) Fad		35.7443
5	Arabic (ar) بدعة مؤقتة		33.8587
6	Italian (it) Moda passeggera		32.5979
7	German (de) Fad (Hype)		24.9112
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốt và xu hướng		23.6703
9	Swedish (sv) Modefluga		21.2688
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гонитва (колективна поведінка)		20.8666

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fad		3 198 344
2	Japanese (ja) 流行		514 295
3	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		76 393
4	Korean (ko) 유행		67 664
5	Spanish (es) Fad		23 407
6	German (de) Fad (Hype)		19 851
7	Swedish (sv) Modefluga		19 214
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốt và xu hướng		14 778
9	Simple English (simple) Fad		11 064
10	Finnish (fi) Muoti-ilmiö		10 416

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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 "Fad" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fad		9 214
2	Japanese (ja) 流行		685
3	Korean (ko) 유행		220
4	Simple English (simple) Fad		219
5	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		203
6	German (de) Fad (Hype)		152
7	Italian (it) Moda passeggera		109
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốt và xu hướng		98
9	Spanish (es) Fad		91
10	Turkish (tr) Trend		76

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fad		474
2	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		73
3	Japanese (ja) 流行		49
4	German (de) Fad (Hype)		20
5	Korean (ko) 유행		10
6	Swedish (sv) Modefluga		10
7	Simple English (simple) Fad		8
8	Spanish (es) Fad		7
9	Finnish (fi) Muoti-ilmiö		7
10	Italian (it) Moda passeggera		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 "Fad" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Moda passeggera		3
2	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		2
3	Korean (ko) 유행		1
4	Arabic (ar) بدعة مؤقتة		0
5	German (de) Fad (Hype)		0
6	English (en) Fad		0
7	Spanish (es) Fad		0
8	Persian (fa) باب روز		0
9	Finnish (fi) Muoti-ilmiö		0
10	Japanese (ja) 流行		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 "Fad" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 流行		713
2	English (en) Fad		432
3	Italian (it) Moda passeggera		74
4	Dutch (nl) Rage (hype)		72
5	Korean (ko) 유행		52
6	Simple English (simple) Fad		29
7	Spanish (es) Fad		28
8	Turkish (tr) Trend		19
9	Vietnamese (vi) Mốt và xu hướng		17
10	Persian (fa) باب روز		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بدعة مؤقتة
de	German Fad (Hype)
en	English Fad
es	Spanish Fad
fa	Persian باب روز
fi	Finnish Muoti-ilmiö
it	Italian Moda passeggera
ja	Japanese 流行
ko	Korean 유행
ms	Malay Fad
nl	Dutch Rage (hype)
simple	Simple English Fad
sv	Swedish Modefluga
tr	Turkish Trend
uk	Ukrainian Гонитва (колективна поведінка)
vi	Vietnamese Mốt và xu hướng

Best Rank

Malay: #27804 11.2024

Global: #24946 01.2008

Best Rank

Malay: #4779 03.2020

Global: #9824 02.2006

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