Practical joke

Quality:

Practical joke - act meant to produce humor by causing annoyance, alarm, confusion, discomfort, or embarrassment, but no lasting harm. Article "Practical joke" in Dutch Wikipedia has 2.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

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

Since the creation of article "Practical joke", its content was written by 43 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 1617 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 77 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 2837 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Dutch): #2370 in June 2017
  • Global: #9318 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Dutch): #42644 in April 2017
  • Global: #19052 in April 2009

There are 31 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Czech (cs)
Recese (žert)
50.3592
2English (en)
Practical joke
49.0491
3Russian (ru)
Розыгрыш (шутка)
48.1362
4Norwegian (no)
Narrestrek
35.1339
5Italian (it)
Scherzo
34.4253
6Armenian (hy)
Խաղարկային կատակ
31.1129
7Ukrainian (uk)
Розіграш
29.3919
8Malay (ms)
Lawak terapan
28.7376
9Korean (ko)
장난 (행위)
27.0795
10Turkish (tr)
Şaka
26.4294
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Practical joke" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Practical joke
3 057 713
2Russian (ru)
Розыгрыш (шутка)
1 743 288
3Japanese (ja)
悪戯
468 385
4Spanish (es)
Broma
327 214
5Portuguese (pt)
Pegadinha
281 864
6German (de)
Streich
248 718
7Italian (it)
Scherzo
182 649
8Chinese (zh)
惡作劇
105 642
9Czech (cs)
Recese (žert)
102 604
10Swedish (sv)
Practical joke
62 826
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Practical joke" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Practical joke
7 172
2Russian (ru)
Розыгрыш (шутка)
1 287
3Japanese (ja)
悪戯
1 073
4German (de)
Streich
928
5Spanish (es)
Broma
730
6Portuguese (pt)
Pegadinha
543
7Persian (fa)
شوخی دستی
520
8Chinese (zh)
惡作劇
474
9Czech (cs)
Recese (žert)
405
10Turkish (tr)
Şaka
380
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Practical joke" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Practical joke
816
2German (de)
Streich
119
3Japanese (ja)
悪戯
90
4Italian (it)
Scherzo
79
5Spanish (es)
Broma
67
6Hebrew (he)
מתיחה
58
7Portuguese (pt)
Pegadinha
58
8Norwegian (no)
Narrestrek
47
9Dutch (nl)
Practical joke
43
10Swedish (sv)
Practical joke
41
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Practical joke" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Practical joke
4
2Danish (da)
Practical joke
1
3Persian (fa)
شوخی دستی
1
4Simple English (simple)
Practical jokes
1
5Arabic (ar)
مقلب
0
6Catalan (ca)
Broma (facècia)
0
7Czech (cs)
Recese (žert)
0
8German (de)
Streich
0
9Greek (el)
Φάρσα
0
10Spanish (es)
Broma
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Practical joke" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Practical joke
779
2Japanese (ja)
悪戯
454
3Chinese (zh)
惡作劇
253
4Hebrew (he)
מתיחה
161
5German (de)
Streich
149
6Spanish (es)
Broma
124
7Portuguese (pt)
Pegadinha
121
8Norwegian (no)
Narrestrek
88
9Italian (it)
Scherzo
83
10Czech (cs)
Recese (žert)
81
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مقلب
caCatalan
Broma (facècia)
csCzech
Recese (žert)
daDanish
Practical joke
deGerman
Streich
elGreek
Φάρσα
enEnglish
Practical joke
esSpanish
Broma
euBasque
Txantxa
faPersian
شوخی دستی
frFrench
Farce (canular)
heHebrew
מתיחה
hyArmenian
Խաղարկային կատակ
idIndonesian
Lelucon praktik
itItalian
Scherzo
jaJapanese
悪戯
koKorean
장난 (행위)
msMalay
Lawak terapan
nlDutch
Practical joke
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Gapstrek
noNorwegian
Narrestrek
plPolish
Psikus
ptPortuguese
Pegadinha
ruRussian
Розыгрыш (шутка)
simpleSimple English
Practical jokes
svSwedish
Practical joke
trTurkish
Şaka
ukUkrainian
Розіграш
urUrdu
پرینک
viVietnamese
Trò chơi khăm
zhChinese
惡作劇

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#42644
04.2017
Global:
#19052
04.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#2370
06.2017
Global:
#9318
02.2006

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Practical joke from Wikipedia articles about April Fools Day, Halloween, Schabernack, List of practical joke topics and Teabagging. Whereas reading the article about Practical joke people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of practical joke topics, Hack at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prank call, Dreadnought hoax and April Fools Day.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 悪戯
es: Broma
tr: Şaka
pl: Psikus

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