The Backrooms

Quality:

The Backrooms - urban legend and creepypasta. This book is the 264^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 48^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Backrooms” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 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 all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5060^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1386^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 48^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 264^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 386^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1464^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 70^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 134^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Backrooms” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1464^th place) and written by 160 authors in all languages (134^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Backrooms”, its content was written by 72 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1386^th place) and edited by 1290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Backrooms is on the 48^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 264^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 577 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in December 2025
• Global: #134 in June 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #170 in April 2026
• Global: #70 in June 2026

There are 35 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	English (en) The Backrooms		84.4427
2	Chinese (zh) The Backrooms		66.7535
3	Portuguese (pt) The Backrooms		65.3161
4	Hebrew (he) The Backrooms		65.2529
5	Indonesian (id) The Backrooms		62.7511
6	Korean (ko) The Backrooms		62.3008
7	Esperanto (eo) The Backrooms		59.039
8	Kazakh (kk) Бэкрумс		57.5099
9	Italian (it) Backrooms		55.8246
10	Croatian (hr) The Backrooms		54.1389

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Backrooms		10 549 370
2	Russian (ru) Закулисье		1 212 510
3	Spanish (es) The Backrooms		1 058 481
4	Japanese (ja) The Backrooms		905 126
5	French (fr) The Backrooms		786 307
6	German (de) The Backrooms		528 867
7	Chinese (zh) The Backrooms		507 471
8	Portuguese (pt) The Backrooms		337 174
9	Italian (it) Backrooms		276 246
10	Arabic (ar) باك رومز		137 793

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) The Backrooms		1 371 306
2	Russian (ru) Закулисье		91 348
3	French (fr) The Backrooms		82 323
4	Spanish (es) The Backrooms		74 482
5	German (de) The Backrooms		61 358
6	Italian (it) Backrooms		42 109
7	Japanese (ja) The Backrooms		35 493
8	Chinese (zh) The Backrooms		33 654
9	Portuguese (pt) The Backrooms		21 004
10	Polish (pl) The Backrooms		17 021

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Backrooms		301
2	French (fr) The Backrooms		138
3	Spanish (es) The Backrooms		112
4	Russian (ru) Закулисье		78
5	Simple English (simple) The Backrooms		72
6	Chinese (zh) The Backrooms		69
7	German (de) The Backrooms		64
8	Portuguese (pt) The Backrooms		60
9	Japanese (ja) The Backrooms		49
10	Italian (it) Backrooms		48

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) The Backrooms		36
2	French (fr) The Backrooms		26
3	Spanish (es) The Backrooms		18
4	German (de) The Backrooms		10
5	Italian (it) Backrooms		8
6	Chinese (zh) The Backrooms		7
7	Korean (ko) The Backrooms		6
8	Polish (pl) The Backrooms		5
9	Portuguese (pt) The Backrooms		5
10	Turkish (tr) The Backrooms		5

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information