Fan fiction

Quality:

Fan fiction - unauthorised amateur derivative fiction. This website is the 138^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 237^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Fan fiction” in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 86 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.55 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7540^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 237^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 138^th most popular in websites.

In June 2025 the article “Fan fiction” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fan fiction”, its content was written by 938 registered users of English Wikipedia (7540^th place) and edited by 2418 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fan fiction is on the 237^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 138^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 885 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2995 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #216 in June 2002
• Global: #44 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7887 in June 2008
• Global: #7995 in February 2015

There are 36 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	English (en) Fan fiction		67.4926
2	Estonian (et) Fännikirjandus		58.391
3	French (fr) Fanfiction		57.2845
4	Spanish (es) Fanfiction		54.9451
5	Catalan (ca) Fanficció		53.8722
6	Italian (it) Fanfiction		50.247
7	Ukrainian (uk) Фанфік		35.9143
8	German (de) Fan-Fiction		34.429
9	Portuguese (pt) Fanfic		32.1598
10	Finnish (fi) Fanifiktio		32.0954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fan fiction		4 867 284
2	Russian (ru) Фанфик		3 136 775
3	Spanish (es) Fanfiction		1 430 766
4	Portuguese (pt) Fanfic		1 239 111
5	German (de) Fan-Fiction		514 049
6	French (fr) Fanfiction		500 864
7	Italian (it) Fanfiction		398 093
8	Chinese (zh) 同人小說		286 816
9	Polish (pl) Fan fiction		256 348
10	Indonesian (id) Fiksi penggemar		223 538

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) Fan fiction		16 293
2	Russian (ru) Фанфик		7 807
3	Portuguese (pt) Fanfic		1 753
4	Spanish (es) Fanfiction		1 726
5	Chinese (zh) 同人小說		1 573
6	German (de) Fan-Fiction		1 000
7	French (fr) Fanfiction		913
8	Simple English (simple) Fan fiction		610
9	Ukrainian (uk) Фанфік		422
10	Persian (fa) فن فیکشن		403

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fan fiction		938
2	French (fr) Fanfiction		210
3	Spanish (es) Fanfiction		185
4	German (de) Fan-Fiction		151
5	Portuguese (pt) Fanfic		133
6	Russian (ru) Фанфик		104
7	Italian (it) Fanfiction		91
8	Polish (pl) Fan fiction		75
9	Hebrew (he) ספרות חובבים		56
10	Finnish (fi) Fanifiktio		55

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) Fan fiction		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Fanfic		2
3	Catalan (ca) Fanficció		1
4	German (de) Fan-Fiction		1
5	Estonian (et) Fännikirjandus		1
6	Hebrew (he) ספרות חובבים		1
7	Japanese (ja) ファン・フィクション		1
8	Arabic (ar) أدب معجبين		0
9	Czech (cs) Fanfiction		0
10	Danish (da) Fanfiktion		0

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

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