Sham marriage

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Sham marriage

Quality:

Sham marriage - marriage of convenience entered into without intending to create a real marital relationship. Article “Sham marriage” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Sham marriage”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 484 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1431 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #3236 in December 2016
  • Global: #30982 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #40531 in June 2016
  • Global: #81307 in February 2019

There are 16 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
1English (en)
Sham marriage
49.9079
2Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
41.7453
3German (de)
Scheinehe
28.9773
4Korean (ko)
위장 결혼
26.6791
5Esperanto (eo)
Ŝajna geedzeco
25.0929
6Romanian (ro)
Căsătorie fictivă
23.8465
7Russian (ru)
Фиктивный брак
23.7803
8Ukrainian (uk)
Фіктивний шлюб
23.3033
9Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
23.0761
10Kazakh (kk)
Жалған неке
21.2815
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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 "Sham marriage" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sham marriage
1 468 859
2Russian (ru)
Фиктивный брак
512 469
3Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
410 979
4German (de)
Scheinehe
338 552
5Chinese (zh)
假結婚
95 625
6Persian (fa)
ازدواج صوری
58 422
7Dutch (nl)
Schijnhuwelijk
55 960
8Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
44 441
9Swedish (sv)
Skenäktenskap
37 652
10Ukrainian (uk)
Фіктивний шлюб
25 261
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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 "Sham marriage" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sham marriage
6 843
2Russian (ru)
Фиктивный брак
1 219
3Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
751
4German (de)
Scheinehe
482
5Chinese (zh)
假結婚
344
6Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
186
7Persian (fa)
ازدواج صوری
171
8Ukrainian (uk)
Фіктивний шлюб
151
9Simple English (simple)
Sham marriage
113
10Dutch (nl)
Schijnhuwelijk
71
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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 "Sham marriage" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sham marriage
178
2German (de)
Scheinehe
96
3Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
36
4Russian (ru)
Фиктивный брак
36
5Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
33
6Dutch (nl)
Schijnhuwelijk
28
7Chinese (zh)
假結婚
26
8Swedish (sv)
Skenäktenskap
15
9Korean (ko)
위장 결혼
10
10Finnish (fi)
Valeavioliitto
9
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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 "Sham marriage" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Scheinehe
0
2English (en)
Sham marriage
0
3Esperanto (eo)
Ŝajna geedzeco
0
4Persian (fa)
ازدواج صوری
0
5Finnish (fi)
Valeavioliitto
0
6Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
0
7Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
0
8Kazakh (kk)
Жалған неке
0
9Korean (ko)
위장 결혼
0
10Dutch (nl)
Schijnhuwelijk
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 "Sham marriage" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Sham marriage
530
2Russian (ru)
Фиктивный брак
283
3Japanese (ja)
偽装結婚
239
4German (de)
Scheinehe
116
5Hebrew (he)
נישואים פיקטיביים
70
6Dutch (nl)
Schijnhuwelijk
56
7Chinese (zh)
假結婚
50
8Ukrainian (uk)
Фіктивний шлюб
24
9Swedish (sv)
Skenäktenskap
19
10Persian (fa)
ازدواج صوری
16
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Scheinehe
enEnglish
Sham marriage
eoEsperanto
Ŝajna geedzeco
faPersian
ازدواج صوری
fiFinnish
Valeavioliitto
heHebrew
נישואים פיקטיביים
jaJapanese
偽装結婚
kkKazakh
Жалған неке
koKorean
위장 결혼
nlDutch
Schijnhuwelijk
roRomanian
Căsătorie fictivă
ruRussian
Фиктивный брак
simpleSimple English
Sham marriage
svSwedish
Skenäktenskap
ukUkrainian
Фіктивний шлюб
zhChinese
假結婚

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#40531
06.2016
Global:
#81307
02.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#3236
12.2016
Global:
#30982
09.2022

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Sham marriage from Wikipedia articles about Gregory House, Durek Verrett, Marriage of convenience, Lavender marriage and Green card. Whereas reading the article about Sham marriage people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Marriage of convenience, Lavender marriage, Paper divorce, Rock Hudson and Honey trapping.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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