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Busy work

Quality:

Busy work - work for occupying time or that creates only an illusion of value. Article “Busy work” in English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.16 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Busy work”, its content was written by 100 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 294 times in English Wikipedia and cited 301 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #13779 in August 2004
  • Global: #48387 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #232322 in February 2008
  • Global: #364974 in February 2008

There are 4 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
1Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
27.6822
2Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
25.6268
3English (en)
Busy work
22.1178
4Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
14.6051
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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 "Busy work" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Busy work
389 046
2Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
2 984
3Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
858
4Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
298
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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 "Busy work" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Busy work
1 872
2Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
17
3Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
9
4Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
7
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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 "Busy work" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Busy work
100
2Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
4
3Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
3
4Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
3
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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 "Busy work" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
0
2English (en)
Busy work
0
3Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
0
4Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
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 "Busy work" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Busy work
294
2Arabic (ar)
عمل نشط
3
3Ukrainian (uk)
Імітація праці
3
4Norwegian (no)
Opptattarbeid
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
عمل نشط
enEnglish
Busy work
noNorwegian
Opptattarbeid
ukUkrainian
Імітація праці

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#232322
02.2008
Global:
#364974
02.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13779
08.2004
Global:
#48387
08.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Busy work from Wikipedia articles about TPS report, Bullshit job, Parkinsons law of triviality, Fraternities and sororities and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Whereas reading the article about Busy work people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Presenteeism, Make-work job, Parkinsons law and Boondoggle.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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