Japanese urban legends

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Japanese urban legends

Quality:

Japanese urban legend - Wikimedia list article. Article “Japanese urban legends” in English Wikipedia has 63.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.09 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Japanese urban legends” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Japanese urban legends”, its content was written by 188 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 330 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 261 times in English Wikipedia and cited 612 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1811 in March 2019
  • Global: #12464 in March 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #29608 in March 2019
  • Global: #49539 in September 2011

There are 9 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
1Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
64.2783
2English (en)
Japanese urban legends
63.79
3Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
54.6922
4Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
51.3307
5French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
39.6392
6Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
34.1873
7Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
30.5971
8Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
27.6798
9Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
24.1315
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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 "Japanese urban legends" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Japanese urban legends
2 231 367
2Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
409 831
3Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
153 232
4Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
144 229
5French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
104 882
6Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
40 936
7Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
37 478
8Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
11 604
9Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
1 440
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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 "Japanese urban legends" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Japanese urban legends
10 809
2Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
923
3Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
896
4French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
559
5Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
408
6Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
234
7Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
228
8Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
80
9Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
47
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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 "Japanese urban legends" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Japanese urban legends
188
2French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
45
3Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
35
4Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
31
5Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
9
6Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
7
7Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
6
8Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
5
9Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
4
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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 "Japanese urban legends" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
1
2English (en)
Japanese urban legends
1
3Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
1
4French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
0
5Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
0
6Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
0
7Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
0
8Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
0
9Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
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 "Japanese urban legends" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Japanese urban legends
261
2Italian (it)
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
227
3French (fr)
Légendes urbaines japonaises
59
4Arabic (ar)
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
27
5Indonesian (id)
Legenda urban Jepang
18
6Russian (ru)
Японские городские легенды
9
7Vietnamese (vi)
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản
7
8Hungarian (hu)
Japán városi legendák
4
9Hindi (hi)
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الأساطير اليابانية الحديثة
enEnglish
Japanese urban legends
frFrench
Légendes urbaines japonaises
hiHindi
जापानी शहरी किंवदंतियां
huHungarian
Japán városi legendák
idIndonesian
Legenda urban Jepang
itItalian
Leggende metropolitane giapponesi
ruRussian
Японские городские легенды
viVietnamese
Truyền thuyết đô thị Nhật Bản

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#29608
03.2019
Global:
#49539
09.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1811
03.2019
Global:
#12464
03.2019

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Japanese urban legend from Wikipedia articles about Kuchisake-onna, Kashima Reiko, Japanese mythology, Kisaragi Station and Aka Manto. Whereas reading the article about Japanese urban legend people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Hanako-san, Kashima Reiko, Aka Manto, Kuchisake-onna and Kunekune.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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