False memory

Quality:

False memory - memory of events that actually did not happen. Article “False memory” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “False memory”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1109 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #365 in May 2015
• Global: #5858 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6097 in November 2025
• Global: #7828 in November 2019

There are 28 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, 2026 (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	Malay (ms) Memori palsu		83.3333
2	English (en) False memory		74.9912
3	German (de) Erinnerungsverfälschung		68.7393
4	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		61.796
5	Turkish (tr) Sahte anı		52.9866
6	Indonesian (id) Ingatan semu		52.9623
7	Greek (el) Παραμνησία		46.7677
8	Hebrew (he) זיכרון כוזב		38.2468
9	Estonian (et) Valemälestus		36.2904
10	Simple English (simple) False memory		35.4154

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) False memory		7 960 122
2	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		661 421
3	German (de) Erinnerungsverfälschung		510 219
4	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		446 604
5	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		429 216
6	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		409 281
7	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		149 740
8	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		81 850
9	Dutch (nl) Herinneringsvervalsing		74 494
10	Chinese (zh) 錯誤記憶		72 387

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) False memory		24 018
2	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		1 713
3	German (de) Erinnerungsverfälschung		1 639
4	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		875
5	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		793
6	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		552
7	Chinese (zh) 錯誤記憶		533
8	Finnish (fi) Valemuisto		305
9	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		261
10	Serbian (sr) Мандела ефекат		138

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) False memory		533
2	German (de) Erinnerungsverfälschung		177
3	French (fr) Faux souvenirs		129
4	Spanish (es) Falsos recuerdos		84
5	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		48
6	Japanese (ja) 虚偽記憶		43
7	Dutch (nl) Herinneringsvervalsing		29
8	Danish (da) Falsk erindring		26
9	Portuguese (pt) Falsas memórias		23
10	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		19

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) False memory		3
2	Hebrew (he) זיכרון כוזב		3
3	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة كاذبة		1
4	Greek (el) Παραμνησία		1
5	Estonian (et) Valemälestus		1
6	Indonesian (id) Ingatan semu		1
7	Russian (ru) Парамнезия		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Paramneziya		0
9	Danish (da) Falsk erindring		0
10	German (de) Erinnerungsverfälschung		0

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

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