Das Spiel Azad

The Player of Games - 1988 novel by Iain M. Banks. This book is the 4791^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Das Spiel Azad” in German Wikipedia has 13.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Das Spiel Azad”, its content was written by 50 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Player of Games is on the 4791^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 20 times in German Wikipedia and cited 166 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1992 in August 2002
• Global: #2132 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #86647 in July 2017
• Global: #126455 in December 2021

There are 10 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	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		26.5944
2	English (en) The Player of Games		24.2181
3	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		23.4708
4	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		14.1625
5	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		14.0178
6	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		13.4881
7	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		11.8755
8	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		9.3749
9	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		7.8144
10	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		6.1228

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Das Spiel Azad" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Player of Games		958 335
2	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		52 701
3	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		40 759
4	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		29 731
5	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		17 274
6	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		16 655
7	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		6 854
8	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		2 161
9	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		535
10	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		493

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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 "Das Spiel Azad" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Player of Games		6 097
2	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		339
3	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		226
4	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		172
5	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		106
6	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		105
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		40
8	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		28
9	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		18
10	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Player of Games		118
2	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		50
3	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		32
4	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		31
5	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		17
6	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		14
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		7
8	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		6
9	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		3
10	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		1

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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 "Das Spiel Azad" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Player of Games		2
2	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		1
3	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		0
4	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		0
5	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		0
6	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		0
7	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		0
8	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		0
9	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		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 "Das Spiel Azad" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Player of Games		55
2	French (fr) L'Homme des jeux		23
3	German (de) Das Spiel Azad		20
4	Italian (it) L'impero di Azad		20
5	Romanian (ro) Jucătorul total		13
6	Russian (ru) Игрок (роман Бэнкса)		12
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець ігор		9
8	Spanish (es) El jugador (Iain Banks)		8
9	Hungarian (hu) A játékmester		5
10	Arabic (ar) لاعب الألعاب		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لاعب الألعاب
de	German Das Spiel Azad
en	English The Player of Games
es	Spanish El jugador (Iain Banks)
fr	French L'Homme des jeux
hu	Hungarian A játékmester
it	Italian L'impero di Azad
ro	Romanian Jucătorul total
ru	Russian Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
uk	Ukrainian Гравець ігор

Best Rank

German: #86647 07.2017

Global: #126455 12.2021

Best Rank

German: #1992 08.2002

Global: #2132 08.2002

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