2016 clown sightings

Quality:

2016 clown sightings - 2016 clown sightings were reports of people disguised as clowns. Article “2016 clown sightings” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2016 clown sightings”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 637 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 415 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1058 in July 2025
• Global: #8 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3999 in November 2016
• Global: #1768 in October 2016

There are 15 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	Arabic (ar) ظاهرة المهرج 2016		79.0469
2	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de los payasos de 2016		61.8859
3	German (de) Horrorclown-Phänomen		57.3086
4	Chinese (zh) 2016年小丑目擊事件		53.7713
5	English (en) 2016 clown sightings		47.1412
6	Portuguese (pt) Avistamentos de palhaços em 2016		43.0505
7	Thai (th) การพบเห็นตัวตลกในปี 2016		40.155
8	Simple English (simple) 2016 clown sightings		37.6984
9	Hebrew (he) תופעת הליצנים המפחידים		34.0046
10	French (fr) Observations de clowns		32.4681

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2016 clown sightings		2 910 215
2	German (de) Horrorclown-Phänomen		308 233
3	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de los payasos de 2016		80 998
4	Hebrew (he) תופעת הליצנים המפחידים		58 894
5	Portuguese (pt) Avistamentos de palhaços em 2016		31 700
6	Arabic (ar) ظاهرة المهرج 2016		19 268
7	Chinese (zh) 2016年小丑目擊事件		17 791
8	Swedish (sv) Clowniakttagelserna 2016		10 961
9	French (fr) Observations de clowns		9 602
10	Simple English (simple) 2016 clown sightings		6 009

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) 2016 clown sightings		13 320
2	Turkish (tr) 2016 palyaço ihbarları		442
3	German (de) Horrorclown-Phänomen		381
4	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de los payasos de 2016		345
5	Hebrew (he) תופעת הליצנים המפחידים		188
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年小丑目擊事件		154
7	Portuguese (pt) Avistamentos de palhaços em 2016		143
8	Simple English (simple) 2016 clown sightings		102
9	French (fr) Observations de clowns		69
10	Swedish (sv) Clowniakttagelserna 2016		42

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2016 clown sightings		400
2	German (de) Horrorclown-Phänomen		72
3	Hebrew (he) תופעת הליצנים המפחידים		59
4	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de los payasos de 2016		29
5	French (fr) Observations de clowns		12
6	Simple English (simple) 2016 clown sightings		12
7	Portuguese (pt) Avistamentos de palhaços em 2016		11
8	Turkish (tr) 2016 palyaço ihbarları		11
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sự xuất hiện hàng loạt hề kinh dị 2016		9
10	Swedish (sv) Clowniakttagelserna 2016		6

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	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de los payasos de 2016		4
2	English (en) 2016 clown sightings		2
3	Arabic (ar) ظاهرة المهرج 2016		1
4	Catalan (ca) Aparicions de pallassos		1
5	German (de) Horrorclown-Phänomen		0
6	French (fr) Observations de clowns		0
7	Hebrew (he) תופעת הליצנים המפחידים		0
8	Indonesian (id) Penampakan badut 2016		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Avistamentos de palhaços em 2016		0
10	Simple English (simple) 2016 clown sightings		0

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

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