April Fools' Day

Quality:

April Fools' Day - annual celebration commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. This event is the 95^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 156^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “April Fools' Day” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9071^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1897^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 156^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3765^th most popular in all topics.

The 1321^st most popular in AI.

The 95^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3806^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “April Fools' Day”, its content was written by 59 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1897^th place) and edited by 5791 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1321^st place).

April Fools' Day is on the 156^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 95^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 32 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5419 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #72 in April 2008
• Global: #11 in April 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #387 in April 2008
• Global: #25 in April 2008

There are 51 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	Hindi (hi) अप्रैल फूल दिवस		82.1429
2	Dutch (nl) 1 aprilgrap		71.4686
3	English (en) April Fools' Day		68.4165
4	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		57.6162
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cá tháng Tư		47.4946
6	Swedish (sv) Aprilskämt		40.8404
7	Korean (ko) 만우절		38.5371
8	Romanian (ro) Ziua păcălelilor		37.4273
9	Catalan (ca) Dia d'enganyar		35.1414
10	German (de) Aprilscherz		34.5416

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) April Fools' Day		23 502 566
2	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		3 700 611
3	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		2 373 339
4	German (de) Aprilscherz		1 791 526
5	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1 529 010
6	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		1 318 613
7	Russian (ru) День смеха		1 304 682
8	Polish (pl) Prima aprilis		1 176 194
9	Indonesian (id) April Mop		1 174 664
10	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		979 374

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) April Fools' Day		21 853
2	Russian (ru) День смеха		3 198
3	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		2 513
4	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		1 814
5	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1 350
6	Simple English (simple) April Fools' Day		1 345
7	German (de) Aprilscherz		1 084
8	Indonesian (id) April Mop		1 000
9	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		945
10	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		766

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) April Fools' Day		2 094
2	Dutch (nl) 1 aprilgrap		400
3	German (de) Aprilscherz		368
4	French (fr) Poisson d'avril		234
5	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		202
6	Italian (it) Pesce d'aprile		193
7	Russian (ru) День смеха		181
8	Hebrew (he) אחד באפריל		154
9	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		152
10	Portuguese (pt) Dia da Mentira		125

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	English (en) April Fools' Day		5
2	Catalan (ca) Dia d'enganyar		1
3	Spanish (es) Día de las bromas de abril		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Április bolondja		1
5	Japanese (ja) エイプリルフール		1
6	Russian (ru) День смеха		1
7	Chinese (zh) 愚人节		1
8	Arabic (ar) كذبة أبريل		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ümumdünya Gülüş Günü		0
10	Belarusian (be) Дзень жартаў		0

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

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