Media manipulation

Media manipulation - series of related, illegitimate or illegal techniques in which an individual, an interest group or a government influences journalists to favour their own particular interests. Article “Media manipulation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Media manipulation” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Media manipulation”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 752 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2945 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11745 in June 2025
• Global: #353 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #63998 in June 2025
• Global: #71818 in November 2012

There are 21 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	German (de) Medienmanipulation		55.7967
2	English (en) Media manipulation		50.1379
3	Polish (pl) Manipulacja mediami		48.7695
4	Ukrainian (uk) Медіаманіпуляція		44.3749
5	Armenian (hy) Մեդիամանիպուլյացիա		32.154
6	Serbian (sr) Медијска манипулација		31.7441
7	Spanish (es) Manipulación de los medios de comunicación		26.8494
8	Catalan (ca) Manipulació als mitjans de comunicació		23.7137
9	Korean (ko) 여론조작		23.2746
10	Persian (fa) دستکاری رسانه‌ای		22.9479

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Media manipulation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Media manipulation		1 174 482
2	Spanish (es) Manipulación de los medios de comunicación		556 122
3	German (de) Medienmanipulation		541 937
4	Japanese (ja) 情報操作		449 971
5	Ukrainian (uk) Медіаманіпуляція		194 146
6	Polish (pl) Manipulacja mediami		104 154
7	Portuguese (pt) Manipulação da mídia		88 093
8	Korean (ko) 여론조작		67 148
9	Italian (it) Manipolazione dell'informazione		22 060
10	Chinese (zh) 媒體操縱		15 005

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Media manipulation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Media manipulation		3 898
2	Spanish (es) Manipulación de los medios de comunicación		957
3	Japanese (ja) 情報操作		726
4	German (de) Medienmanipulation		615
5	Chinese (zh) 媒體操縱		248
6	Italian (it) Manipolazione dell'informazione		164
7	Portuguese (pt) Manipulação da mídia		156
8	Ukrainian (uk) Медіаманіпуляція		130
9	Polish (pl) Manipulacja mediami		119
10	Simple English (simple) Media manipulation		119

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

Language versions of the article "Media manipulation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Medienmanipulation		240
2	English (en) Media manipulation		218
3	Japanese (ja) 情報操作		91
4	Spanish (es) Manipulación de los medios de comunicación		38
5	Polish (pl) Manipulacja mediami		28
6	Italian (it) Manipolazione dell'informazione		20
7	Serbian (sr) Медијска манипулација		19
8	Korean (ko) 여론조작		15
9	Ukrainian (uk) Медіаманіпуляція		15
10	Chinese (zh) 媒體操縱		13

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

Language versions of the article "Media manipulation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Media manipulation		3
2	German (de) Medienmanipulation		2
3	Spanish (es) Manipulación de los medios de comunicación		1
4	Armenian (hy) Մեդիամանիպուլյացիա		1
5	Simple English (simple) Media manipulation		1
6	Arabic (ar) تلاعب إعلامي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Media manipulyasiyası		0
8	Catalan (ca) Manipulació als mitjans de comunicació		0
9	Czech (cs) Mediální manipulace		0
10	Persian (fa) دستکاری رسانه‌ای		0

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

Language versions of the article "Media manipulation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Media manipulation		714
2	Persian (fa) دستکاری رسانه‌ای		585
3	Serbian (sr) Медијска манипулација		352
4	Japanese (ja) 情報操作		311
5	Arabic (ar) تلاعب إعلامي		228
6	Chinese (zh) 媒體操縱		216
7	German (de) Medienmanipulation		87
8	Azerbaijani (az) Media manipulyasiyası		73
9	Korean (ko) 여론조작		67
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tác động truyền thông		52

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تلاعب إعلامي
az	Azerbaijani Media manipulyasiyası
ca	Catalan Manipulació als mitjans de comunicació
cs	Czech Mediální manipulace
de	German Medienmanipulation
en	English Media manipulation
es	Spanish Manipulación de los medios de comunicación
fa	Persian دستکاری رسانه‌ای
hy	Armenian Մեդիամանիպուլյացիա
id	Indonesian Manipulasi media
it	Italian Manipolazione dell'informazione
ja	Japanese 情報操作
ko	Korean 여론조작
pl	Polish Manipulacja mediami
pt	Portuguese Manipulação da mídia
simple	Simple English Media manipulation
sr	Serbian Медијска манипулација
tr	Turkish Medya manipülasyonu
uk	Ukrainian Медіаманіпуляція
vi	Vietnamese Tác động truyền thông
zh	Chinese 媒體操縱

Best Rank

Simple English: #63998 06.2025

Global: #71818 11.2012

Best Rank

Simple English: #11745 06.2025

Global: #353 04.2003

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