Fake news

Quality:

Fake news - false or misleading information presented as news. Article “Fake news” in English Wikipedia has 92.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 648 references and 39 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.89 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7881^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6725^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Fake news” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6725^th place).

Since the creation of article “Fake news”, its content was written by 832 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2888 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7881^st place).

The article is cited 1506 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7342 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #93 in March 2017
• Global: #353 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5573 in October 2017
• Global: #5143 in March 2020

There are 48 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, 2026 (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	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		98.4615
2	English (en) Fake news		92.8889
3	Spanish (es) Fake news		85.6101
4	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		83.0769
5	German (de) Fake News		81.3333
6	Polish (pl) Fake news		81.1017
7	French (fr) Infox		77.6917
8	Norwegian (no) Falsk nyhet		75.0927
9	Finnish (fi) Valeuutinen		73.3607
10	Italian (it) Fake news		69.7572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fake news		4 943 094
2	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		1 445 444
3	Spanish (es) Fake news		1 303 058
4	French (fr) Infox		920 657
5	German (de) Fake News		819 792
6	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		795 107
7	Italian (it) Fake news		672 330
8	Russian (ru) Фальшивые новости		403 900
9	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		356 186
10	Polish (pl) Fake news		219 432

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) Fake news		12 129
2	German (de) Fake News		3 961
3	Spanish (es) Fake news		3 690
4	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		2 980
5	French (fr) Infox		2 333
6	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		2 128
7	Italian (it) Fake news		1 279
8	Russian (ru) Фальшивые новости		1 100
9	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		1 093
10	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		691

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fake news		832
2	French (fr) Infox		321
3	German (de) Fake News		234
4	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		151
5	Italian (it) Fake news		140
6	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		128
7	Spanish (es) Fake news		121
8	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		104
9	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		103
10	Dutch (nl) Nepnieuws		91

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	Spanish (es) Fake news		4
2	French (fr) Infox		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Saxta xəbər		2
4	English (en) Fake news		2
5	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		2
6	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		2
7	Arabic (ar) أخبار كاذبة		1
8	Catalan (ca) Notícia enganyosa		1
9	Basque (eu) Albiste faltsu		1
10	Persian (fa) خبررسانی جعلی		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information