Balloon boy hoax

Quality:

Balloon boy hoax - 2009 event. Article “Balloon boy hoax” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Balloon boy hoax”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 594 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 73 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2168 in August 2020
• Global: #94 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #20016 in February 2022
• Global: #2398 in October 2009

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) Balloon boy hoax		77.9831
2	Russian (ru) Инцидент в Колорадо с воздушным шаром		46.972
3	French (fr) Canular du garçon en ballon		37.6629
4	Chinese (zh) 气球男孩恶作剧		28.7863
5	Simple English (simple) Balloon boy hoax		27.658
6	Japanese (ja) コロラド気球事件		27.5257
7	Finnish (fi) Heliumpallopojan tapaus		19.4039
8	Korean (ko) 열기구 소년 사건		7.1524
9	Czech (cs) Coloradský incident s balónem		3.6276
10	Persian (fa) دروغ پسر بادکنکی		3.3687

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balloon boy hoax		3 969 474
2	Japanese (ja) コロラド気球事件		58 866
3	Russian (ru) Инцидент в Колорадо с воздушным шаром		52 312
4	Chinese (zh) 气球男孩恶作剧		28 985
5	Finnish (fi) Heliumpallopojan tapaus		11 633
6	French (fr) Canular du garçon en ballon		10 567
7	Persian (fa) دروغ پسر بادکنکی		6 495
8	Czech (cs) Coloradský incident s balónem		3 798
9	Simple English (simple) Balloon boy hoax		1 864
10	Korean (ko) 열기구 소년 사건		184

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) Balloon boy hoax		30 000
2	Russian (ru) Инцидент в Колорадо с воздушным шаром		377
3	Japanese (ja) コロラド気球事件		261
4	French (fr) Canular du garçon en ballon		205
5	Simple English (simple) Balloon boy hoax		134
6	Chinese (zh) 气球男孩恶作剧		97
7	Finnish (fi) Heliumpallopojan tapaus		33
8	Czech (cs) Coloradský incident s balónem		32
9	Korean (ko) 열기구 소년 사건		26
10	Persian (fa) دروغ پسر بادکنکی		24

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balloon boy hoax		511
2	Japanese (ja) コロラド気球事件		24
3	Chinese (zh) 气球男孩恶作剧		19
4	Russian (ru) Инцидент в Колорадо с воздушным шаром		12
5	Czech (cs) Coloradský incident s balónem		9
6	Finnish (fi) Heliumpallopojan tapaus		8
7	French (fr) Canular du garçon en ballon		6
8	Persian (fa) دروغ پسر بادکنکی		3
9	Simple English (simple) Balloon boy hoax		2
10	Korean (ko) 열기구 소년 사건		0

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) Balloon boy hoax		3
2	French (fr) Canular du garçon en ballon		1
3	Czech (cs) Coloradský incident s balónem		0
4	Persian (fa) دروغ پسر بادکنکی		0
5	Finnish (fi) Heliumpallopojan tapaus		0
6	Japanese (ja) コロラド気球事件		0
7	Korean (ko) 열기구 소년 사건		0
8	Russian (ru) Инцидент в Колорадо с воздушным шаром		0
9	Simple English (simple) Balloon boy hoax		0
10	Chinese (zh) 气球男孩恶作剧		0

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

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