Essjay

Essjay controversy - controversy over a Wikipedia user and Wikia employee's purported identity. Article “Essjay” in Finnish Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Essjay”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 866 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 1101 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #1369 in April 2017
• Global: #709 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #87469 in April 2017
• Global: #150834 in July 2008

There are 21 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	Simple English (simple) Essjay controversy		76.1077
2	English (en) Essjay controversy		47.7785
3	Arabic (ar) قضية إيسجاي		40.2649
4	Esperanto (eo) Skandalo kun Essjay		35.6321
5	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		35.0871
6	Portuguese (pt) Controvérsia Essjay		33.6285
7	Polish (pl) Kontrowersja Essjaya		32.2759
8	Bulgarian (bg) Райън Джордан		31.7075
9	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		31.2297
10	Finnish (fi) Essjay		30.6564

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Essjay" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Essjay controversy		510 168
2	Russian (ru) Скандал с Essjay		59 532
3	Chinese (zh) Essjay事件		23 358
4	Portuguese (pt) Controvérsia Essjay		23 162
5	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		23 073
6	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		18 786
7	Simple English (simple) Essjay controversy		10 377
8	French (fr) Affaire Essjay		9 028
9	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi Essjay		8 899
10	Spanish (es) Controversia Essjay		8 867

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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 "Essjay" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Essjay controversy		1 010
2	Chinese (zh) Essjay事件		107
3	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		90
4	Russian (ru) Скандал с Essjay		89
5	Spanish (es) Controversia Essjay		79
6	Polish (pl) Kontrowersja Essjaya		69
7	Simple English (simple) Essjay controversy		43
8	French (fr) Affaire Essjay		40
9	Italian (it) Caso Essjay		40
10	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Essjay controversy		535
2	Russian (ru) Скандал с Essjay		44
3	French (fr) Affaire Essjay		35
4	Simple English (simple) Essjay controversy		35
5	Chinese (zh) Essjay事件		35
6	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		27
7	Spanish (es) Controversia Essjay		24
8	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		24
9	Italian (it) Caso Essjay		19
10	Bulgarian (bg) Райън Джордан		17

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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 "Essjay" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Скандал с Essjay		2
2	Arabic (ar) قضية إيسجاي		1
3	English (en) Essjay controversy		1
4	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		1
5	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		1
6	Belarusian (be) Скандал з Essjay		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Райън Джордан		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Skandalo kun Essjay		0
9	Spanish (es) Controversia Essjay		0
10	Finnish (fi) Essjay		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 "Essjay" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Essjay controversy		182
2	Korean (ko) Essjay 사건		148
3	Chinese (zh) Essjay事件		138
4	Arabic (ar) قضية إيسجاي		120
5	Russian (ru) Скандал с Essjay		111
6	Japanese (ja) Essjay騒動		97
7	French (fr) Affaire Essjay		92
8	Portuguese (pt) Controvérsia Essjay		67
9	Indonesian (id) Kontroversi Essjay		63
10	Ukrainian (uk) Скандал з Essjay		44

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قضية إيسجاي
be	Belarusian Скандал з Essjay
bg	Bulgarian Райън Джордан
en	English Essjay controversy
eo	Esperanto Skandalo kun Essjay
es	Spanish Controversia Essjay
fi	Finnish Essjay
fr	French Affaire Essjay
hy	Armenian Սկանդալ Essjay-ի հետ
id	Indonesian Kontroversi Essjay
it	Italian Caso Essjay
ja	Japanese Essjay騒動
ko	Korean Essjay 사건
ms	Malay Kontroversi Essjay
pl	Polish Kontrowersja Essjaya
pt	Portuguese Controvérsia Essjay
ru	Russian Скандал с Essjay
simple	Simple English Essjay controversy
sr	Serbian Рајан Џордан
uk	Ukrainian Скандал з Essjay
zh	Chinese Essjay事件

Best Rank

Finnish: #87469 04.2017

Global: #150834 07.2008

Best Rank

Finnish: #1369 04.2017

Global: #709 03.2007

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