Something Awful

Quality:

Something Awful - comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka. This website is the 451^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 172^nd most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Something Awful” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 172^nd most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 451^st most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9027^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Something Awful”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1060 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Something Awful is on the 172^nd place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 451^st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 238 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in December 2005
• Global: #192 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3201 in October 2015
• Global: #8494 in April 2014

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, 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	English (en) Something Awful		53.6046
2	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		22.0482
3	French (fr) Something Awful		21.4732
4	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		21.2291
5	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		20.4478
6	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		19.991
7	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		17.8453
8	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		9.0017
9	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		6.1514
10	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		3.5033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Something Awful		4 346 821
2	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		27 734
3	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		15 978
4	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		11 328
5	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		8 642
6	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		7 034
7	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		3 337
8	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		3 005
9	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		2 180
10	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		1 020

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) Something Awful		13 671
2	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		199
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		173
4	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		113
5	French (fr) Something Awful		81
6	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		75
7	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		24
8	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		12
9	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		8
10	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		8

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Something Awful		980
2	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		21
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇人玩意		16
4	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		13
5	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		11
6	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		6
7	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		5
8	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		3
9	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		2
10	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		2

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	French (fr) Something Awful		2
2	Arabic (ar) سمثنغ أوفول		0
3	English (en) Something Awful		0
4	Persian (fa) چیزی عظیم		0
5	Finnish (fi) Something Awful		0
6	Indonesian (id) Something Awful		0
7	Japanese (ja) サムシング・オーフル・フォーラム		0
8	Korean (ko) 섬싱 오풀		0
9	Simple English (simple) Something Awful		0
10	Swedish (sv) Something Awful		0

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

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