Boondoggle

Boondoggle - project that continues despite its wastefulness. Article “Boondoggle” in English Wikipedia has 53.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Boondoggle” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Boondoggle”, its content was written by 155 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 736 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 82 times in English Wikipedia and cited 291 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #27813 in March 2013
• Global: #13230 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37012 in August 2009
• Global: #51475 in March 2011

There are 7 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	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		72.7455
2	English (en) Boondoggle		53.2073
3	German (de) Investitionsruine		39.5767
4	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		37.2366
5	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		37.031
6	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		16.3724
7	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		8.8641

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Boondoggle" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boondoggle		1 820 038
2	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		593 617
3	German (de) Investitionsruine		289 322
4	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		206 721
5	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		16 262
6	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		5 445
7	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		1 639

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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 "Boondoggle" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boondoggle		5 696
2	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		1 532
3	German (de) Investitionsruine		784
4	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		510
5	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		35
6	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		18
7	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		14

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		267
2	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		180
3	English (en) Boondoggle		155
4	German (de) Investitionsruine		103
5	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		24
6	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		4
7	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		3

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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 "Boondoggle" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boondoggle		1
2	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		1
3	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		1
4	German (de) Investitionsruine		0
5	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		0
6	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		0
7	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		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 "Boondoggle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Investitionsruine		104
2	English (en) Boondoggle		82
3	Dutch (nl) Grote nutteloze werken		48
4	French (fr) Grands travaux inutiles		43
5	Finnish (fi) Nollatutkimus		7
6	Romanian (ro) Mari lucrări inutile		5
7	Korean (ko) 쓸모없는 대공사		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Investitionsruine
en	English Boondoggle
fi	Finnish Nollatutkimus
fr	French Grands travaux inutiles
ko	Korean 쓸모없는 대공사
nl	Dutch Grote nutteloze werken
ro	Romanian Mari lucrări inutile

Best Rank

English: #37012 08.2009

Global: #51475 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #27813 03.2013

Global: #13230 07.2003

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