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Running gag

Quality:

Running gag - literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling. Article “Running gag” in Dutch Wikipedia has 1.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Running gag”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 687 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 180 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 1954 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Dutch): #413 in September 2010
  • Global: #7495 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Dutch): #17816 in November 2010
  • Global: #59825 in December 2008

There are 11 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Повторюваний гег
23.3023
2Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
23.2436
3Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
22.4935
4French (fr)
Comique de répétition
19.8868
5German (de)
Running Gag
18.671
6English (en)
Running gag
18.1942
7Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
16.3369
8Russian (ru)
Повторяющийся гэг
10.6931
9Dutch (nl)
Running gag
1.5179
10Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
0.6906
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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 "Running gag" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Running gag
1 278 913
2German (de)
Running Gag
697 610
3French (fr)
Comique de répétition
195 519
4Dutch (nl)
Running gag
104 780
5Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
68 678
6Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
9 783
7Simple English (simple)
Running gag
6 862
8Russian (ru)
Повторяющийся гэг
3 142
9Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
878
10Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
607
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Running gag" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Running gag
6 425
2German (de)
Running Gag
943
3French (fr)
Comique de répétition
781
4Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
283
5Dutch (nl)
Running gag
196
6Russian (ru)
Повторяющийся гэг
123
7Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
30
8Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
25
9Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
23
10Simple English (simple)
Running gag
19
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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 "Running gag" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Running gag
274
2German (de)
Running Gag
241
3French (fr)
Comique de répétition
76
4Dutch (nl)
Running gag
57
5Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
13
6Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
11
7Simple English (simple)
Running gag
6
8Russian (ru)
Повторяющийся гэг
5
9Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
2
10Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
1
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Running gag" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
2
2English (en)
Running gag
1
3French (fr)
Comique de répétition
1
4German (de)
Running Gag
0
5Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
0
6Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
0
7Dutch (nl)
Running gag
0
8Russian (ru)
Повторяющийся гэг
0
9Simple English (simple)
Running gag
0
10Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
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 "Running gag" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Running gag
751
2German (de)
Running Gag
724
3Dutch (nl)
Running gag
180
4French (fr)
Comique de répétition
152
5Spanish (es)
Chiste recurrente
56
6Hebrew (he)
בדיחה חוזרת
30
7Ukrainian (uk)
Повторюваний гег
20
8Swedish (sv)
Stående skämt
13
9Simple English (simple)
Running gag
10
10Indonesian (id)
Lelucon berjalan
9
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Running Gag
enEnglish
Running gag
esSpanish
Chiste recurrente
frFrench
Comique de répétition
heHebrew
בדיחה חוזרת
idIndonesian
Lelucon berjalan
nlDutch
Running gag
ruRussian
Повторяющийся гэг
simpleSimple English
Running gag
svSwedish
Stående skämt
ukUkrainian
Повторюваний гег

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#17816
11.2010
Global:
#59825
12.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#413
09.2010
Global:
#7495
08.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Running gag from Wikipedia articles about Phineas and Ferb, Charlie McDowell, Acme Corporation, Airplane! and Fez. Whereas reading the article about Running gag people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Catchphrase, Callback, The Jack Benny Program, Reliant Regal and In-joke.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Running gag

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