Boogeyman

Quality:

Bogeyman - fictional creature, often used to scare kids. Article “Boogeyman” in Romanian Wikipedia has 3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Boogeyman”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia and edited by 1912 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 2168 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #1841 in January 2020
• Global: #5235 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #6247 in October 2015
• Global: #6772 in June 2023

There are 29 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) Bogeyman		55.263
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		47.6549
3	German (de) Butzemann		29.3816
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Buse		28.5106
5	Simple English (simple) Bogeyman		27.267
6	Hungarian (hu) Mumus		24.3324
7	Czech (cs) Strašidlo		22.8833
8	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		22.1746
9	Greek (el) Μπαμπούλας		22.0647
10	Norwegian (no) Buse		21.4371

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bogeyman		10 117 455
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		1 436 779
3	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		1 142 377
4	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		1 026 359
5	German (de) Butzemann		733 298
6	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		595 600
7	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		560 605
8	Italian (it) Uomo nero		534 824
9	Persian (fa) لولوخورخوره		162 296
10	Korean (ko) 보기맨		154 290

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) Bogeyman		29 835
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		4 580
3	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		3 133
4	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		2 974
5	German (de) Butzemann		2 029
6	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		1 962
7	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		1 798
8	Italian (it) Uomo nero		1 755
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ông kẹ		834
10	Chinese (zh) 床边妖怪		431

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bogeyman		956
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		216
3	Italian (it) Uomo nero		110
4	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		77
5	German (de) Butzemann		72
6	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		67
7	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		63
8	Finnish (fi) Mörkö		54
9	Dutch (nl) Boeman		41
10	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		39

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) Bogeyman		7
2	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		2
3	Italian (it) Uomo nero		1
4	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		1
5	Arabic (ar) بعبع		0
6	Czech (cs) Strašidlo		0
7	German (de) Butzemann		0
8	Greek (el) Μπαμπούλας		0
9	Estonian (et) Lastehirmutis		0
10	Basque (eu) Hamalau-zaku		0

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

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Romanian Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Vladimir Plahotniuc, Florin Piersic, România, Cătălin Zmărăndescu, Mihai Eminescu, Unirea Principatelor Române, Sandra Izbașa, Marius Urzică, Societatea Română de Televiziune, Monotreme.

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