Spøkelset i Cock Lane

Quality:

Cock Lane ghost - a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. Article “Spøkelset i Cock Lane” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 45.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.38 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Spøkelset i Cock Lane”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 364 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 235 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1272 in November 2017
• Global: #2753 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #98669 in March 2023
• Global: #2886 in April 2011

There are 10 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) Cock Lane ghost		81.9412
2	Catalan (ca) Fantasma de Cock Lane		79.5784
3	French (fr) Fantôme de Cock Lane		68.675
4	Spanish (es) Fantasma de Cock Lane		61.0304
5	Japanese (ja) コック・レーンの幽霊		48.4775
6	Norwegian (no) Spøkelset i Cock Lane		45.2767
7	German (de) Cock Lane Ghost		20.8082
8	Arabic (ar) أكذوبة شبح كوك لين		15.5203
9	Chinese (zh) 庫克巷亡靈事件		11.7342
10	Russian (ru) Коклэйнский призрак		2.1731

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cock Lane ghost		715 351
2	French (fr) Fantôme de Cock Lane		168 768
3	German (de) Cock Lane Ghost		44 140
4	Japanese (ja) コック・レーンの幽霊		41 773
5	Spanish (es) Fantasma de Cock Lane		18 591
6	Arabic (ar) أكذوبة شبح كوك لين		11 659
7	Russian (ru) Коклэйнский призрак		11 492
8	Chinese (zh) 庫克巷亡靈事件		1 390
9	Catalan (ca) Fantasma de Cock Lane		654
10	Norwegian (no) Spøkelset i Cock Lane		518

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) Cock Lane ghost		2 184
2	Japanese (ja) コック・レーンの幽霊		115
3	French (fr) Fantôme de Cock Lane		77
4	Spanish (es) Fantasma de Cock Lane		59
5	German (de) Cock Lane Ghost		40
6	Chinese (zh) 庫克巷亡靈事件		40
7	Norwegian (no) Spøkelset i Cock Lane		34
8	Russian (ru) Коклэйнский призрак		32
9	Catalan (ca) Fantasma de Cock Lane		25
10	Arabic (ar) أكذوبة شبح كوك لين		18

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cock Lane ghost		137
2	German (de) Cock Lane Ghost		99
3	French (fr) Fantôme de Cock Lane		46
4	Spanish (es) Fantasma de Cock Lane		22
5	Arabic (ar) أكذوبة شبح كوك لين		15
6	Japanese (ja) コック・レーンの幽霊		15
7	Norwegian (no) Spøkelset i Cock Lane		13
8	Catalan (ca) Fantasma de Cock Lane		7
9	Chinese (zh) 庫克巷亡靈事件		6
10	Russian (ru) Коклэйнский призрак		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	Arabic (ar) أكذوبة شبح كوك لين		2
2	Japanese (ja) コック・レーンの幽霊		1
3	Catalan (ca) Fantasma de Cock Lane		0
4	German (de) Cock Lane Ghost		0
5	English (en) Cock Lane ghost		0
6	Spanish (es) Fantasma de Cock Lane		0
7	French (fr) Fantôme de Cock Lane		0
8	Norwegian (no) Spøkelset i Cock Lane		0
9	Russian (ru) Коклэйнский призрак		0
10	Chinese (zh) 庫克巷亡靈事件		0

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

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