Urban legend

Quality:

Urban legend - form of modern folklore. Article “Urban legend” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8306^th most popular in all topics.

The 3854^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Urban legend”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4000 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3854^th place).

The article is cited 107 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11559 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #487 in July 2018
• Global: #262 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3415 in February 2014
• Global: #1497 in January 2008

There are 46 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	Spanish (es) Leyenda urbana		71.2111
2	English (en) Urban legend		63.4659
3	Chinese (zh) 都市傳說		42.7963
4	Dutch (nl) Broodjeaapverhaal		42.7367
5	Portuguese (pt) Lenda urbana		38.3343
6	French (fr) Légende urbaine		37.2821
7	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説		36.4239
8	Italian (it) Leggenda metropolitana		34.1917
9	German (de) Moderne Sage		33.7061
10	Vietnamese (vi) Truyền thuyết đô thị		31.7629

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Urban legend		10 446 508
2	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説		5 758 574
3	Spanish (es) Leyenda urbana		3 446 269
4	Russian (ru) Городская легенда		1 693 380
5	Portuguese (pt) Lenda urbana		1 562 671
6	German (de) Moderne Sage		1 469 000
7	Chinese (zh) 都市傳說		1 100 849
8	French (fr) Légende urbaine		1 013 532
9	Italian (it) Leggenda metropolitana		842 249
10	Polish (pl) Legenda miejska		730 301

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) Urban legend		31 499
2	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説		8 323
3	Russian (ru) Городская легенда		5 725
4	Chinese (zh) 都市傳說		3 562
5	Spanish (es) Leyenda urbana		3 113
6	German (de) Moderne Sage		2 920
7	French (fr) Légende urbaine		2 581
8	Portuguese (pt) Lenda urbana		1 712
9	Italian (it) Leggenda metropolitana		1 416
10	Polish (pl) Legenda miejska		897

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Urban legend		824
2	German (de) Moderne Sage		381
3	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説		332
4	French (fr) Légende urbaine		330
5	Spanish (es) Leyenda urbana		278
6	Dutch (nl) Broodjeaapverhaal		249
7	Italian (it) Leggenda metropolitana		237
8	Russian (ru) Городская легенда		176
9	Chinese (zh) 都市傳說		174
10	Portuguese (pt) Lenda urbana		124

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	Catalan (ca) Llegenda urbana		3
2	Arabic (ar) أسطورة مدنية		2
3	German (de) Moderne Sage		2
4	English (en) Urban legend		2
5	Spanish (es) Leyenda urbana		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şəhər əfsanəsi		1
7	Estonian (et) Linnalegend		1
8	French (fr) Légende urbaine		1
9	Indonesian (id) Legenda urban		1
10	Japanese (ja) 都市伝説		1

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

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