False memory

Quality:

False memory - memory of events that actually did not happen. Article “False memory” in English Wikipedia has 73.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 110 references and 27 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “False memory” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “False memory”, its content was written by 497 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 982 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 348 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1032 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1934 in June 2018
• Global: #5840 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2880 in November 2019
• Global: #8048 in November 2019

There are 26 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	Malay (ms) Memori palsu		84
2	English (en) False memory		73.8873
3	Indonesian (id) Ingatan semu		54.2922
4	Turkish (tr) Sahte anı		51.806
5	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		51.2385
6	Greek (el) Παραμνησία		45.1969
7	Estonian (et) Valemälestus		37.8062
8	Simple English (simple) False memory		37.3331
9	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		33.451
10	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		32.624

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False memory		7 608 063
2	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		629 537
3	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		438 875
4	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		408 997
5	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		398 184
6	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		146 801
7	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		79 140
8	Dutch (nl) Herinneringsvervalsing		72 647
9	Chinese (zh) 錯誤記憶		65 931
10	Serbian (sr) Мандела ефекат		57 230

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) False memory		33 733
2	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		1 634
3	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		1 265
4	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		1 043
5	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		827
6	Simple English (simple) False memory		802
7	Chinese (zh) 錯誤記憶		635
8	Finnish (fi) Valemuisto		434
9	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		236
10	Serbian (sr) Мандела ефекат		233

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False memory		497
2	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		121
3	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		84
4	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		47
5	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		42
6	Dutch (nl) Herinneringsvervalsing		29
7	Danish (da) Falsk erindring		26
8	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		21
9	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		17
10	Finnish (fi) Valemuisto		12

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) False memory		4
2	Serbian (sr) Мандела ефекат		2
3	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		1
4	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Paramneziya		0
6	Danish (da) Falsk erindring		0
7	Greek (el) Παραμνησία		0
8	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		0
9	Estonian (et) Valemälestus		0
10	Basque (eu) Sasioroitzapen		0

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

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