Disinformation

Quality:

Disinformation - false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate. Article “Disinformation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 82.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 122 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2008^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6464^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Disinformation” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2008^th place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6464^th place).

Since the creation of article “Disinformation”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 134 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7260 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #271 in January 2025
• Global: #1597 in August 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8365 in April 2025
• Global: #34473 in March 2022

There are 44 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) Disinformation		94.2857
2	Swedish (sv) Desinformation		82.8919
3	Polish (pl) Dezinformacja		82.5668
4	Simple English (simple) Disinformation		82.4311
5	Korean (ko) 역정보		79.2891
6	Hebrew (he) דיסאינפורמציה		60.747
7	Spanish (es) Desinformación		59.5414
8	Dutch (nl) Desinformatie		56.0744
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дезінформування		50.3603
10	Portuguese (pt) Desinformação		49.7693

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Disinformation		1 781 833
2	French (fr) Désinformation		463 442
3	Spanish (es) Desinformación		433 096
4	Russian (ru) Дезинформация		290 502
5	Polish (pl) Dezinformacja		261 299
6	German (de) Desinformation		257 627
7	Turkish (tr) Dezenformasyon		233 268
8	Italian (it) Disinformazione		161 968
9	Greek (el) Παραπληροφόρηση		138 058
10	Czech (cs) Dezinformace		114 491

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) Disinformation		9 487
2	Spanish (es) Desinformación		2 125
3	French (fr) Désinformation		1 949
4	Russian (ru) Дезинформация		1 113
5	German (de) Desinformation		1 012
6	Portuguese (pt) Desinformação		676
7	Polish (pl) Dezinformacja		673
8	Italian (it) Disinformazione		554
9	Czech (cs) Dezinformace		510
10	Japanese (ja) 偽情報		464

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Disinformation		410
2	French (fr) Désinformation		214
3	German (de) Desinformation		135
4	Spanish (es) Desinformación		87
5	Polish (pl) Dezinformacja		66
6	Dutch (nl) Desinformatie		55
7	Italian (it) Disinformazione		51
8	Czech (cs) Dezinformace		49
9	Hebrew (he) דיסאינפורמציה		38
10	Swedish (sv) Desinformation		38

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) Disinformation		7
2	German (de) Desinformation		3
3	Spanish (es) Desinformación		3
4	Russian (ru) Дезинформация		3
5	Persian (fa) دروغ‌رسانی		2
6	Korean (ko) 역정보		2
7	Simple English (simple) Disinformation		2
8	Hebrew (he) דיסאינפורמציה		1
9	Italian (it) Disinformazione		1
10	Polish (pl) Dezinformacja		1

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

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