Alternative facts

Quality:

Alternative facts - expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017. Article “Alternative facts” in English Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 62 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Alternative facts” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alternative facts”, its content was written by 326 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 657 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 442 times in English Wikipedia and cited 977 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24 in January 2017
• Global: #62 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1110 in February 2017
• Global: #3020 in February 2017

There are 20 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	Estonian (et) Alternatiivsed faktid		77.6112
2	German (de) Alternative Fakten		62.9435
3	English (en) Alternative facts		54.6175
4	Swedish (sv) Alternativa fakta		49.7887
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Alternative fakta		45.5191
6	Basque (eu) Gertaera alternatiboak		43.6343
7	Spanish (es) Hechos alternativos		43.3324
8	Latin (la) Alternative facts		39.9313
9	French (fr) Faits alternatifs		34.302
10	Arabic (ar) حقائق بديلة		34.0364

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternative facts		1 704 240
2	German (de) Alternative Fakten		293 562
3	French (fr) Faits alternatifs		91 338
4	Japanese (ja) もう一つの事実		66 584
5	Chinese (zh) 另類事實		42 111
6	Swedish (sv) Alternativa fakta		34 996
7	Spanish (es) Hechos alternativos		26 327
8	Portuguese (pt) Factos alternativos		11 010
9	Danish (da) Alternative fakta		8 111
10	Norwegian (no) Alternative fakta		6 907

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) Alternative facts		5 360
2	German (de) Alternative Fakten		774
3	Japanese (ja) もう一つの事実		483
4	French (fr) Faits alternatifs		323
5	Chinese (zh) 另類事實		173
6	Spanish (es) Hechos alternativos		105
7	Dutch (nl) Alternatief feit		47
8	Norwegian (no) Alternative fakta		44
9	Korean (ko) 대안적 사실		43
10	Swedish (sv) Alternativa fakta		43

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternative facts		326
2	German (de) Alternative Fakten		142
3	French (fr) Faits alternatifs		51
4	Swedish (sv) Alternativa fakta		36
5	Chinese (zh) 另類事實		21
6	Japanese (ja) もう一つの事実		12
7	Spanish (es) Hechos alternativos		11
8	Dutch (nl) Alternatief feit		10
9	Norwegian (no) Alternative fakta		10
10	Portuguese (pt) Factos alternativos		10

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	English (en) Alternative facts		2
2	Korean (ko) 대안적 사실		1
3	Arabic (ar) حقائق بديلة		0
4	Danish (da) Alternative fakta		0
5	German (de) Alternative Fakten		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Alternativaj faktoj		0
7	Spanish (es) Hechos alternativos		0
8	Estonian (et) Alternatiivsed faktid		0
9	Basque (eu) Gertaera alternatiboak		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vaihtoehtoiset faktat		0

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

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