Hoax

Quality:

Hoax - deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as the truth. Article "Hoax" in English Wikipedia has 50.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Hoax" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Hoax", its content was written by 631 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1470 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5084 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #314 in July 2003
• Global: #527 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12795 in February 2018
• Global: #7717 in January 2008

There are 36 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	Chinese (zh) 钓鱼式恶作剧		55.4641
2	Italian (it) Bufala		55.4364
3	Indonesian (id) Berita bohong		54.1156
4	Dutch (nl) Hoax		51.6332
5	English (en) Hoax		50.657
6	Slovak (sk) Hoax		48.898
7	Hebrew (he) תרמית		42.0993
8	French (fr) Canular		35.4004
9	Catalan (ca) Falsa alarma		33.8667
10	Korean (ko) 날조		33.7897

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hoax		5 155 817
2	German (de) Hoax		2 303 807
3	Spanish (es) Bulo		2 098 709
4	Portuguese (pt) Embuste		944 174
5	Dutch (nl) Hoax		816 552
6	Japanese (ja) 捏造		628 104
7	Indonesian (id) Berita bohong		493 603
8	Italian (it) Bufala		450 289
9	Czech (cs) Hoax		435 871
10	French (fr) Canular		414 364

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) Hoax		14 801
2	German (de) Hoax		3 352
3	Spanish (es) Bulo		2 937
4	Russian (ru) Мистификация		1 844
5	Portuguese (pt) Embuste		1 185
6	Japanese (ja) 捏造		1 115
7	Indonesian (id) Berita bohong		935
8	Italian (it) Bufala		743
9	French (fr) Canular		703
10	Dutch (nl) Hoax		610

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hoax		631
2	German (de) Hoax		243
3	French (fr) Canular		205
4	Italian (it) Bufala		177
5	Spanish (es) Bulo		174
6	Dutch (nl) Hoax		154
7	Japanese (ja) 捏造		120
8	Portuguese (pt) Embuste		87
9	Hungarian (hu) Hoax		74
10	Indonesian (id) Berita bohong		66

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) Hoax		2
2	Italian (it) Bufala		2
3	Chinese (zh) 钓鱼式恶作剧		2
4	Czech (cs) Hoax		1
5	French (fr) Canular		1
6	Indonesian (id) Berita bohong		1
7	Russian (ru) Мистификация		1
8	Arabic (ar) خدعة		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Mistifikasiya		0
10	Catalan (ca) Falsa alarma		0

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

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