Snopes

Quality:

Snopes - fact-checking website. This website is the 310^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 191^st most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Snopes” in English Wikipedia has 57.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 66 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.02 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:

The 191^st most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 310^th most popular in websites.

In June 2026 the article “Snopes” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Snopes”, its content was written by 652 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 858 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Snopes is on the 191^st place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 310^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 1530 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3248 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2181 in August 2021
• Global: #3826 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4997 in June 2008
• Global: #11403 in June 2008

There are 22 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	English (en) Snopes		57.2955
2	German (de) Snopes		48.5968
3	Japanese (ja) スノープス		39.6624
4	Italian (it) Snopes		37.9146
5	French (fr) Snopes		34.642
6	Russian (ru) Snopes.com		31.58
7	Portuguese (pt) Snopes		31.3044
8	Finnish (fi) Snopes		26.4834
9	Persian (fa) اسنوپس		25.5886
10	Catalan (ca) Snopes		25.5316

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Snopes		5 994 577
2	Spanish (es) Snopes		117 552
3	Russian (ru) Snopes.com		56 599
4	Polish (pl) Snopes		54 773
5	Italian (it) Snopes		32 350
6	French (fr) Snopes		31 135
7	Finnish (fi) Snopes		26 803
8	Japanese (ja) スノープス		21 920
9	Chinese (zh) Snopes		13 622
10	Hebrew (he) סנופס		10 557

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) Snopes		8 135
2	Chinese (zh) Snopes		498
3	Spanish (es) Snopes		143
4	Russian (ru) Snopes.com		141
5	Japanese (ja) スノープス		126
6	French (fr) Snopes		103
7	German (de) Snopes		67
8	Polish (pl) Snopes		58
9	Persian (fa) اسنوپس		54
10	Italian (it) Snopes		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Snopes		652
2	French (fr) Snopes		29
3	Italian (it) Snopes		24
4	Russian (ru) Snopes.com		22
5	Hebrew (he) סנופס		16
6	Spanish (es) Snopes		12
7	Japanese (ja) スノープス		12
8	Polish (pl) Snopes		11
9	Chinese (zh) Snopes		11
10	German (de) Snopes		8

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	Arabic (ar) سنوبس.كوم		2
2	Catalan (ca) Snopes		2
3	English (en) Snopes		1
4	Italian (it) Snopes		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Snopes		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Urban Legends Reference Pages		0
7	Czech (cs) Snopes		0
8	German (de) Snopes		0
9	Spanish (es) Snopes		0
10	Persian (fa) اسنوپس		0

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jessie Buckley, Sinners (2025 film), Amy Madigan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Maya Rudolph, Sean Penn, Academy Awards.

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