Folk hero

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Folk hero

Quality:

Folk hero - type of hero. Article “Folk hero” in English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.7 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Folk hero” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Folk hero”, its content was written by 224 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 402 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 803 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #12167 in August 2013
  • Global: #32748 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #41974 in December 2024
  • Global: #79906 in December 2024

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
54.4343
2Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
30.6861
3Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
27.4531
4English (en)
Folk hero
26.7955
5Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
20.1971
6French (fr)
Héros populaire
18.7488
7Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
14.4943
8Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
8.9948
9Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
2.8789
10Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
1.2733
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Folk hero" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Folk hero
1 448 226
2French (fr)
Héros populaire
443 212
3Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
211 822
4Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
29 567
5Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
2 300
6Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
1 218
7Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
789
8Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
509
9Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
335
10Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
178
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Folk hero" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Folk hero
8 302
2Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
681
3French (fr)
Héros populaire
242
4Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
143
5Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
31
6Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
26
7Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
26
8Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
20
9Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
14
10Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
13
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Folk hero" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Folk hero
224
2Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
112
3French (fr)
Héros populaire
44
4Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
15
5Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
2
6Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
1
7Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
1
8Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
1
9Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
1
10Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Folk hero" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Folk hero
1
2French (fr)
Héros populaire
1
3Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
0
4Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
0
5Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
0
6Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
0
7Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
0
8Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
0
9Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
0
10Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Folk hero" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Folk hero
803
2French (fr)
Héros populaire
79
3Arabic (ar)
بطل شعبي
50
4Dutch (nl)
Volksheld
32
5Persian (fa)
قهرمان عامی
27
6Simple English (simple)
Folk hero
24
7Portuguese (pt)
Herói folclórico
22
8Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Folkehelt
11
9Esperanto (eo)
Popola heroo
9
10Malay (ms)
Wira rakyat
5
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بطل شعبي
enEnglish
Folk hero
eoEsperanto
Popola heroo
faPersian
قهرمان عامی
frFrench
Héros populaire
msMalay
Wira rakyat
nlDutch
Volksheld
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Folkehelt
ptPortuguese
Herói folclórico
simpleSimple English
Folk hero

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#41974
12.2024
Global:
#79906
12.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#12167
08.2013
Global:
#32748
08.2013

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Folk hero from Wikipedia articles about Luigi Mangione, King Arthur, Killing of Brian Thompson, John Henry and Daniel Boone. Whereas reading the article about Folk hero people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of folk heroes, El Santo, Davy Crockett, Ned Kelly and Culture hero.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Folk hero

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