Fake news

Quality:

Fake news - false or misleading information presented as news. Article “Fake news” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8232^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9005^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Fake news”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2787 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8232^nd place).

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6756 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #311 in December 2020
• Global: #354 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12682 in November 2021
• Global: #5100 in March 2020

There are 48 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	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		98.4615
2	English (en) Fake news		97.7367
3	Spanish (es) Fake news		85.4517
4	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		84.6154
5	German (de) Fake News		81.4286
6	Polish (pl) Fake news		81.2746
7	French (fr) Infox		77.8073
8	Norwegian (no) Falsk nyhet		75.2838
9	Finnish (fi) Valeuutinen		73.4361
10	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		73.3278

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fake news		4 722 231
2	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		1 398 399
3	Spanish (es) Fake news		1 220 351
4	French (fr) Infox		878 489
5	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		768 364
6	German (de) Fake News		768 212
7	Italian (it) Fake news		641 321
8	Russian (ru) Фальшивые новости		379 055
9	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		342 683
10	Polish (pl) Fake news		207 207

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) Fake news		21 960
2	Spanish (es) Fake news		11 028
3	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		5 995
4	German (de) Fake News		3 808
5	French (fr) Infox		2 606
6	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		2 316
7	Italian (it) Fake news		1 922
8	Russian (ru) Фальшивые новости		1 794
9	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		1 299
10	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		921

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fake news		810
2	French (fr) Infox		313
3	German (de) Fake News		226
4	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		148
5	Italian (it) Fake news		137
6	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		126
7	Spanish (es) Fake news		116
8	Chinese (zh) 假新聞		102
9	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		100
10	Dutch (nl) Nepnieuws		89

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) Fake news		7
2	Korean (ko) 가짜뉴스		4
3	Hebrew (he) פייק ניוז		2
4	Armenian (hy) Կեղծ լուրեր		2
5	Russian (ru) Фальшивые новости		2
6	Catalan (ca) Notícia enganyosa		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Álhír		1
8	Japanese (ja) 虚偽報道		1
9	Polish (pl) Fake news		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Notícia falsa		1

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

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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