Fantasy

Quality:

Fantasy - genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Article “Fantasy” in English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 66 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.02 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9063^rd most popular in all topics.

The 3993^rd most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Fantasy” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fantasy”, its content was written by 702 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3984 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3993^rd place).

The article is cited 11666 times in English Wikipedia (1674^th place) and cited 72495 times in all languages (2358^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #497 in March 2002
• Global: #155 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5019 in March 2020
• Global: #4560 in January 2022

There are 52 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	Russian (ru) Фэнтези		88.304
2	Malay (ms) Fantasi		81.8488
3	Czech (cs) Fantasy		77.1188
4	French (fr) Fantasy		72.5675
5	English (en) Fantasy		72.2061
6	Spanish (es) Género fantástico		61.7561
7	Swedish (sv) Fantasy		56.3306
8	Estonian (et) Imeulme		49.2206
9	Catalan (ca) Fantasia		48.3022
10	Hebrew (he) פנטזיה		41.8525

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fantasy		11 085 474
2	Russian (ru) Фэнтези		4 045 070
3	Spanish (es) Género fantástico		2 016 854
4	Japanese (ja) ファンタジー		1 973 856
5	Polish (pl) Fantasy		1 508 138
6	German (de) Fantasy		1 465 919
7	French (fr) Fantasy		1 463 053
8	Italian (it) Fantasy		1 172 822
9	Arabic (ar) فنتازيا		698 642
10	Portuguese (pt) Fantasia (gênero)		573 642

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) Fantasy		22 238
2	Russian (ru) Фэнтези		5 299
3	Japanese (ja) ファンタジー		3 567
4	French (fr) Fantasy		3 002
5	German (de) Fantasy		2 539
6	Italian (it) Fantasy		1 443
7	Persian (fa) فانتزی		1 369
8	Spanish (es) Género fantástico		1 156
9	Polish (pl) Fantasy		1 061
10	Chinese (zh) 奇幻作品		983

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fantasy		702
2	German (de) Fantasy		376
3	French (fr) Fantasy		374
4	Russian (ru) Фэнтези		272
5	Italian (it) Fantasy		222
6	Hebrew (he) פנטזיה		161
7	Polish (pl) Fantasy		159
8	Dutch (nl) Fantasy (genre)		148
9	Japanese (ja) ファンタジー		137
10	Swedish (sv) Fantasy		124

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) Fantasy		3
2	Italian (it) Fantasy		2
3	Russian (ru) Фэнтези		2
4	Chinese (zh) 奇幻作品		2
5	Catalan (ca) Fantasia		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Fantasto		1
7	Basque (eu) Fantasiazko literatura		1
8	Persian (fa) فانتزی		1
9	French (fr) Fantasy		1
10	Hebrew (he) פנטזיה		1

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

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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