Spaghetti-tree hoax

Spaghetti-tree - 1957 April Fools' hoax report broadcast on BBC. Article “Spaghetti-tree hoax” in English Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Spaghetti-tree hoax”, its content was written by 202 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 478 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in English Wikipedia and cited 103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9086 in April 2005
• Global: #24491 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2276 in January 2016
• Global: #7359 in January 2016

There are 23 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	Italian (it) L'albero degli spaghetti		30.6897
2	Polish (pl) Drzewo spaghetti		28.1032
3	Simple English (simple) Spaghetti-tree hoax		27.512
4	Vietnamese (vi) Trò lừa bịp cây spaghetti		27.2514
5	Hungarian (hu) Spagettiszüret		26.7768
6	Chinese (zh) 意大利面树		24.0992
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дерево спагеті		22.1324
8	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		21.8437
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Berba špageta		21.6499
10	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		19.9983

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Spaghetti-tree hoax" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spaghetti-tree hoax		1 926 171
2	German (de) Spaghetti Harvest		219 081
3	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		58 207
4	Japanese (ja) スパゲッティの木		57 557
5	Russian (ru) Дерево спагетти		52 395
6	Chinese (zh) 意大利面树		45 558
7	Italian (it) L'albero degli spaghetti		37 964
8	Hebrew (he) עץ ספגטי		27 154
9	Bulgarian (bg) Спагетено дърво		15 731
10	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		11 721

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Spaghetti-tree hoax" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spaghetti-tree hoax		4 063
2	German (de) Spaghetti Harvest		273
3	Japanese (ja) スパゲッティの木		169
4	Chinese (zh) 意大利面树		147
5	Italian (it) L'albero degli spaghetti		141
6	Russian (ru) Дерево спагетти		136
7	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		121
8	Polish (pl) Drzewo spaghetti		82
9	Simple English (simple) Spaghetti-tree hoax		50
10	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		47

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

Language versions of the article "Spaghetti-tree hoax" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spaghetti-tree hoax		202
2	Hebrew (he) עץ ספגטי		46
3	German (de) Spaghetti Harvest		44
4	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		32
5	Italian (it) L'albero degli spaghetti		26
6	Chinese (zh) 意大利面树		23
7	Russian (ru) Дерево спагетти		20
8	Bulgarian (bg) Спагетено дърво		14
9	Japanese (ja) スパゲッティの木		9
10	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		8

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

Language versions of the article "Spaghetti-tree hoax" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Spaghetti Harvest		1
2	Hungarian (hu) Spagettiszüret		1
3	Polish (pl) Drzewo spaghetti		1
4	Russian (ru) Дерево спагетти		1
5	Arabic (ar) خدعة شجرة السباغيتي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Spagetti ağacı mistifikasiyası		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Спагетено дърво		0
8	English (en) Spaghetti-tree hoax		0
9	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		0
10	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		0

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

Language versions of the article "Spaghetti-tree hoax" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Spaghetti-tree hoax		30
2	Chinese (zh) 意大利面树		20
3	German (de) Spaghetti Harvest		11
4	French (fr) Arbre à spaghetti		7
5	Hebrew (he) עץ ספגטי		5
6	Russian (ru) Дерево спагетти		5
7	Italian (it) L'albero degli spaghetti		4
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trò lừa bịp cây spaghetti		4
9	Bulgarian (bg) Спагетено дърво		3
10	Finnish (fi) Spagettipuu		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خدعة شجرة السباغيتي
az	Azerbaijani Spagetti ağacı mistifikasiyası
bg	Bulgarian Спагетено дърво
de	German Spaghetti Harvest
en	English Spaghetti-tree hoax
fi	Finnish Spagettipuu
fr	French Arbre à spaghetti
he	Hebrew עץ ספגטי
hu	Hungarian Spagettiszüret
hy	Armenian Սպագետտիի ծառի խաբեություն
id	Indonesian Kebohongan pohon spageti
it	Italian L'albero degli spaghetti
ja	Japanese スパゲッティの木
ka	Georgian სპაგეტის ხე
lt	Lithuanian Spageti medžio pokštas
pl	Polish Drzewo spaghetti
ru	Russian Дерево спагетти
sh	Serbo-Croatian Berba špageta
simple	Simple English Spaghetti-tree hoax
sr	Serbian Берба шпагета
uk	Ukrainian Дерево спагеті
vi	Vietnamese Trò lừa bịp cây spaghetti
zh	Chinese 意大利面树

Best Rank

English: #2276 01.2016

Global: #7359 01.2016

Best Rank

English: #9086 04.2005

Global: #24491 04.2007

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