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Smear campaign

Quality:

Smear campaign - effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda. Article “Smear campaign” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Smear campaign”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 432 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1657 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1378 in January 2021
  • Global: #214 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #48061 in January 2021
  • Global: #75993 in July 2019

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
1English (en)
Smear campaign
47.3266
2Chinese (zh)
抹黑策略
36.3095
3Indonesian (id)
Kampanye cemar
25.0535
4Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
24.1717
5German (de)
Hetzkampagne
23.8799
6Norwegian (no)
Svertekampanje
21.9438
7Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
17.9677
8Portuguese (pt)
Campanha de difamação
13.6941
9Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
12.868
10Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
1.8663
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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 "Smear campaign" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Smear campaign
1 382 077
2German (de)
Hetzkampagne
117 470
3Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
48 797
4Chinese (zh)
抹黑策略
45 624
5Finnish (fi)
Lokakampanja
5 878
6Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
2 985
7Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
1 916
8Portuguese (pt)
Campanha de difamação
971
9Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
888
10Indonesian (id)
Kampanye cemar
245
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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 "Smear campaign" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Smear campaign
6 051
2Chinese (zh)
抹黑策略
475
3German (de)
Hetzkampagne
246
4Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
101
5Portuguese (pt)
Campanha de difamação
39
6Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
36
7Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
29
8Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
28
9Finnish (fi)
Lokakampanja
20
10Norwegian (no)
Svertekampanje
18
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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 "Smear campaign" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Smear campaign
277
2German (de)
Hetzkampagne
77
3Chinese (zh)
抹黑策略
29
4Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
17
5Finnish (fi)
Lokakampanja
13
6Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
6
7Norwegian (no)
Svertekampanje
4
8Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
4
9Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
2
10Indonesian (id)
Kampanye cemar
2
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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 "Smear campaign" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Smear campaign
1
2Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
0
3German (de)
Hetzkampagne
0
4Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
0
5Finnish (fi)
Lokakampanja
0
6Indonesian (id)
Kampanye cemar
0
7Norwegian (no)
Svertekampanje
0
8Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
0
9Portuguese (pt)
Campanha de difamação
0
10Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
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 "Smear campaign" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Smear campaign
897
2Chinese (zh)
抹黑策略
292
3Arabic (ar)
حملة تشويه
156
4Persian (fa)
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
154
5German (de)
Hetzkampagne
81
6Indonesian (id)
Kampanye cemar
21
7Polish (pl)
Nagonka (socjologia)
18
8Simple English (simple)
Smear campaign
17
9Portuguese (pt)
Campanha de difamação
14
10Finnish (fi)
Lokakampanja
5
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حملة تشويه
deGerman
Hetzkampagne
enEnglish
Smear campaign
faPersian
کارزار لکه‌دار کردن
fiFinnish
Lokakampanja
idIndonesian
Kampanye cemar
noNorwegian
Svertekampanje
plPolish
Nagonka (socjologia)
ptPortuguese
Campanha de difamação
simpleSimple English
Smear campaign
zhChinese
抹黑策略

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#48061
01.2021
Global:
#75993
07.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1378
01.2021
Global:
#214
11.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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