Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Quality:

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - editorial appearing in the September 21, 1897, edition of The (New York) Sun. Article “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” in Malay Wikipedia has 10.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 570 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #8328 in January 2024
• Global: #289 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #117434 in February 2025
• Global: #7322 in December 2009

There are 13 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	Chinese (zh) 真的，弗吉尼娅，圣诞老人是真的		82.1078
2	English (en) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		75.558
3	Spanish (es) Sí, Virginia, existe Santa Claus		54.201
4	Greek (el) Ναι, Βιρτζίνια, υπάρχει Άγιος Βασίλης		49.5769
5	Swedish (sv) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		33.3789
6	Italian (it) Sì, Virginia, Babbo Natale esiste		29.9097
7	Indonesian (id) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		22.8423
8	French (fr) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		19.9047
9	Japanese (ja) サンタクロースっているんでしょうか?		19.5144
10	Bulgarian (bg) Има ли дядо Коледа?		17.4289

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		2 349 290
2	German (de) Gibt es einen Weihnachtsmann?		446 585
3	Japanese (ja) サンタクロースっているんでしょうか?		284 247
4	Italian (it) Sì, Virginia, Babbo Natale esiste		63 745
5	Bulgarian (bg) Има ли дядо Коледа?		56 911
6	Chinese (zh) 真的，弗吉尼娅，圣诞老人是真的		44 020
7	French (fr) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		16 107
8	Swedish (sv) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		13 341
9	Simple English (simple) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		3 965
10	Indonesian (id) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		2 843

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) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		4 575
2	German (de) Gibt es einen Weihnachtsmann?		556
3	Japanese (ja) サンタクロースっているんでしょうか?		220
4	Chinese (zh) 真的，弗吉尼娅，圣诞老人是真的		97
5	Italian (it) Sì, Virginia, Babbo Natale esiste		59
6	French (fr) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		40
7	Bulgarian (bg) Има ли дядо Коледа?		36
8	Spanish (es) Sí, Virginia, existe Santa Claus		22
9	Indonesian (id) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		7
10	Malay (ms) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		7

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		316
2	German (de) Gibt es einen Weihnachtsmann?		88
3	Italian (it) Sì, Virginia, Babbo Natale esiste		40
4	Japanese (ja) サンタクロースっているんでしょうか?		34
5	Bulgarian (bg) Има ли дядо Коледа?		23
6	Chinese (zh) 真的，弗吉尼娅，圣诞老人是真的		20
7	French (fr) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		19
8	Swedish (sv) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		14
9	Greek (el) Ναι, Βιρτζίνια, υπάρχει Άγιος Βασίλης		6
10	Simple English (simple) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		4

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) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		2
2	Chinese (zh) 真的，弗吉尼娅，圣诞老人是真的		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Има ли дядо Коледа?		0
4	German (de) Gibt es einen Weihnachtsmann?		0
5	Greek (el) Ναι, Βιρτζίνια, υπάρχει Άγιος Βασίλης		0
6	Spanish (es) Sí, Virginia, existe Santa Claus		0
7	French (fr) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		0
8	Indonesian (id) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus		0
9	Italian (it) Sì, Virginia, Babbo Natale esiste		0
10	Japanese (ja) サンタクロースっているんでしょうか?		0

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

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