Sock puppet (internet)

Sockpuppet - online identity used for purposes of deception. Article “Sock puppet (internet)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Sock puppet (internet)”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1584 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 733 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #398 in July 2014
• Global: #10998 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5685 in July 2020
• Global: #42729 in September 2010

There are 28 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	Esperanto (eo) Gantopupo (Interreto)		59.927
2	Estonian (et) Käpiknukk (Internet)		58.9582
3	English (en) Sock puppet account		53.8376
4	Spanish (es) Cuenta de usuario títere		45.7861
5	Russian (ru) Виртуал (Интернет)		45.2434
6	Simple English (simple) Sock puppet (internet)		41.1402
7	Swedish (sv) Sockpuppet (internet)		38.9204
8	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		35.717
9	Persian (fa) زاپاس (اینترنت)		31.0333
10	Indonesian (id) Pengguna siluman		26.8016

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sock puppet (internet)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sock puppet account		2 692 138
2	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		525 572
3	Chinese (zh) 马甲 (网络用语)		242 134
4	Japanese (ja) 自作自演 (インターネット)		170 240
5	French (fr) Faux-nez		84 895
6	Italian (it) Sockpuppet		75 773
7	Dutch (nl) Sokpop (internet)		43 430
8	Russian (ru) Виртуал (Интернет)		31 357
9	Portuguese (pt) Sockpuppet		27 800
10	Finnish (fi) Haamuhenkilö		25 123

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sock puppet (internet)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sock puppet account		9 100
2	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		2 110
3	Chinese (zh) 马甲 (网络用语)		683
4	French (fr) Faux-nez		549
5	Japanese (ja) 自作自演 (インターネット)		317
6	Russian (ru) Виртуал (Интернет)		227
7	Italian (it) Sockpuppet		159
8	Simple English (simple) Sock puppet (internet)		152
9	Dutch (nl) Sokpop (internet)		128
10	Portuguese (pt) Sockpuppet		72

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

Language versions of the article "Sock puppet (internet)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sock puppet account		733
2	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		246
3	Chinese (zh) 马甲 (网络用语)		80
4	French (fr) Faux-nez		75
5	Italian (it) Sockpuppet		74
6	Japanese (ja) 自作自演 (インターネット)		61
7	Dutch (nl) Sokpop (internet)		47
8	Finnish (fi) Haamuhenkilö		39
9	Portuguese (pt) Sockpuppet		30
10	Swedish (sv) Sockpuppet (internet)		30

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

Language versions of the article "Sock puppet (internet)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sock puppet account		4
2	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Gantopupo (Interreto)		2
4	Estonian (et) Käpiknukk (Internet)		1
5	Thai (th) หุ่นเชิด (อินเทอร์เน็ต)		1
6	Arabic (ar) دمية جورب (إنترنت)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Sockpuppet		0
8	Spanish (es) Cuenta de usuario títere		0
9	Persian (fa) زاپاس (اینترنت)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Haamuhenkilö		0

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

Language versions of the article "Sock puppet (internet)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sock puppet account		241
2	German (de) Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)		58
3	Chinese (zh) 马甲 (网络用语)		55
4	French (fr) Faux-nez		49
5	Finnish (fi) Haamuhenkilö		47
6	Japanese (ja) 自作自演 (インターネット)		43
7	Persian (fa) زاپاس (اینترنت)		39
8	Portuguese (pt) Sockpuppet		29
9	Hebrew (he) בובת גרב (אינטרנט)		21
10	Arabic (ar) دمية جورب (إنترنت)		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دمية جورب (إنترنت)
ca	Catalan Sockpuppet
de	German Sockenpuppe (Netzkultur)
en	English Sock puppet account
eo	Esperanto Gantopupo (Interreto)
es	Spanish Cuenta de usuario títere
et	Estonian Käpiknukk (Internet)
fa	Persian زاپاس (اینترنت)
fi	Finnish Haamuhenkilö
fr	French Faux-nez
gl	Galician Monicreque (Internet)
he	Hebrew בובת גרב (אינטרנט)
hi	Hindi कठपुतली (इंटरनेट)
id	Indonesian Pengguna siluman
it	Italian Sockpuppet
ja	Japanese 自作自演 (インターネット)
ko	Korean 다중 계정
nl	Dutch Sokpop (internet)
pl	Polish Pacynka (informatyka)
pt	Portuguese Sockpuppet
ru	Russian Виртуал (Интернет)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Sockpuppet
simple	Simple English Sock puppet (internet)
sv	Swedish Sockpuppet (internet)
th	Thai หุ่นเชิด (อินเทอร์เน็ต)
tr	Turkish Kukla (internet)
vi	Vietnamese Tài khoản rối
zh	Chinese 马甲 (网络用语)

Best Rank

Simple English: #5685 07.2020

Global: #42729 09.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #398 07.2014

Global: #10998 09.2005

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