The Babadook

Quality:

The Babadook - 2014 film directed by Jennifer Kent. This film is the 1201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 831^st most popular film in English Wikipedia. Article “The Babadook” in English Wikipedia has 85.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 103 references and 18 sections.

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 831^st most popular in films in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1201^st most popular in films.

In June 2025 the article “The Babadook” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Babadook”, its content was written by 409 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 735 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Babadook is on the 831^st place in local ranking of films in English Wikipedia and on the 1201^st place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 254 times in English Wikipedia and cited 647 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #186 in June 2017
• Global: #1110 in June 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #265 in December 2014
• Global: #1253 in December 2014

There are 24 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	English (en) The Babadook		85.3375
2	Portuguese (pt) The Babadook		45.4536
3	Ukrainian (uk) Бабадук		42.7453
4	Catalan (ca) Babadook		40.9962
5	Dutch (nl) The Babadook		33.677
6	German (de) Der Babadook		32.9125
7	Russian (ru) Бабадук		26.4174
8	Indonesian (id) The Babadook		26.1459
9	Arabic (ar) بابادوك		25.4582
10	Turkish (tr) Karabasan (film, 2014)		24.9715

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Babadook		12 405 704
2	Russian (ru) Бабадук		1 027 395
3	Spanish (es) The Babadook		891 169
4	Italian (it) Babadook		877 276
5	German (de) Der Babadook		552 269
6	French (fr) Mister Babadook		292 421
7	Portuguese (pt) The Babadook		256 229
8	Persian (fa) بابادوک		138 001
9	Polish (pl) Babadook		101 522
10	Dutch (nl) The Babadook		61 223

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) The Babadook		36 604
2	Russian (ru) Бабадук		3 686
3	Portuguese (pt) The Babadook		1 735
4	Italian (it) Babadook		1 633
5	German (de) Der Babadook		1 444
6	Spanish (es) The Babadook		1 362
7	French (fr) Mister Babadook		983
8	Persian (fa) بابادوک		615
9	Ukrainian (uk) Бабадук		366
10	Indonesian (id) The Babadook		323

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Babadook		409
2	Italian (it) Babadook		53
3	German (de) Der Babadook		34
4	Russian (ru) Бабадук		33
5	French (fr) Mister Babadook		31
6	Persian (fa) بابادوک		20
7	Hebrew (he) באבאדוק		18
8	Spanish (es) The Babadook		17
9	Dutch (nl) The Babadook		17
10	Chinese (zh) 巴巴杜		17

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) The Babadook		3
2	Italian (it) Babadook		2
3	Portuguese (pt) The Babadook		1
4	Simple English (simple) The Babadook		1
5	Chinese (zh) 巴巴杜		1
6	Arabic (ar) بابادوك		0
7	Catalan (ca) Babadook		0
8	German (de) Der Babadook		0
9	Spanish (es) The Babadook		0
10	Basque (eu) The Babadook		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information