Phantom island

Quality:

Phantom island - island that was believed to exist but later proven to be nonexistent. Article “Phantom island” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Phantom island”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1392 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #279 in December 2011
• Global: #2326 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2013 in January 2012
• Global: #36645 in July 2009

There are 27 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) Phantom island		67.8725
2	Catalan (ca) Illa fantasma		36.0151
3	Spanish (es) Isla fantasma		35.8715
4	Tamil (ta) பொய்த் தீவு		27.3001
5	German (de) Phantominsel		24.5251
6	Norwegian (no) Fantomøy		20.4883
7	Czech (cs) Přízračný ostrov		20.2489
8	Chinese (zh) 幽靈島		19.8451
9	Japanese (ja) 疑存島		19.2694
10	Portuguese (pt) Ilha-fantasma		17.94

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phantom island		1 660 317
2	Russian (ru) Остров-призрак		343 030
3	Japanese (ja) 疑存島		295 422
4	German (de) Phantominsel		280 441
5	Spanish (es) Isla fantasma		241 487
6	French (fr) Île fantôme		165 690
7	Italian (it) Isola fantasma		81 392
8	Chinese (zh) 幽靈島		80 927
9	Portuguese (pt) Ilha-fantasma		36 964
10	Dutch (nl) Spookeiland		35 508

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) Phantom island		11 852
2	Japanese (ja) 疑存島		1 451
3	German (de) Phantominsel		975
4	Russian (ru) Остров-призрак		968
5	Spanish (es) Isla fantasma		619
6	French (fr) Île fantôme		441
7	Chinese (zh) 幽靈島		368
8	Italian (it) Isola fantasma		270
9	Indonesian (id) Pulau hantu		255
10	Simple English (simple) Phantom island		239

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phantom island		242
2	German (de) Phantominsel		120
3	French (fr) Île fantôme		61
4	Spanish (es) Isla fantasma		44
5	Russian (ru) Остров-призрак		39
6	Japanese (ja) 疑存島		36
7	Dutch (nl) Spookeiland		31
8	Italian (it) Isola fantasma		28
9	Hebrew (he) אי תעתוע		25
10	Norwegian (no) Fantomøy		18

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	German (de) Phantominsel		2
2	English (en) Phantom island		1
3	Arabic (ar) جزيرة شبح		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kabus ada		0
5	Belarusian (be) Востраў-прывід		0
6	Catalan (ca) Illa fantasma		0
7	Czech (cs) Přízračný ostrov		0
8	Danish (da) Fantomø		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Fantoma insulo		0
10	Spanish (es) Isla fantasma		0

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

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