Shill

Shill - person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. Article “Shill” in English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.7 points.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Shill”, its content was written by 292 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 413 times in English Wikipedia and cited 615 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2054 in May 2002
• Global: #3069 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31026 in July 2009
• Global: #49338 in July 2009

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	Chinese (zh) 托儿		31.0758
2	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		30.1579
3	English (en) Shill		26.6203
4	Simple English (simple) Shill		17.0578
5	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		13.4503
6	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		12.7429
7	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		11.6905

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shill		3 228 956
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		850 137
3	Chinese (zh) 托儿		82 981
4	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		76 316
5	Simple English (simple) Shill		4 783
6	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		3 018
7	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		927

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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 "Shill" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shill		7 491
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		1 800
3	Simple English (simple) Shill		435
4	Chinese (zh) 托儿		343
5	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		123
6	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		69
7	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shill		292
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		64
3	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		44
4	Chinese (zh) 托儿		14
5	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		6
6	Simple English (simple) Shill		3
7	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		1

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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 "Shill" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shill		1
2	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		0
3	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		0
4	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		0
5	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		0
6	Simple English (simple) Shill		0
7	Chinese (zh) 托儿		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 "Shill" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shill		413
2	Japanese (ja) サクラ (おとり)		119
3	German (de) Lockvogel (Person)		41
4	Chinese (zh) 托儿		20
5	Simple English (simple) Shill		13
6	Persian (fa) شیل (بازاریابی)		6
7	Korean (ko) 야바위꾼		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Lockvogel (Person)
en	English Shill
fa	Persian شیل (بازاریابی)
ja	Japanese サクラ (おとり)
ko	Korean 야바위꾼
simple	Simple English Shill
zh	Chinese 托儿

Best Rank

English: #31026 07.2009

Global: #49338 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #2054 05.2002

Global: #3069 05.2002

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