Der bleiche König

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Der bleiche König

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The Pale King - novel by David Foster Wallace. This book is the 2706th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Der bleiche König” in German Wikipedia has 19.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2706th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Der bleiche König”, its content was written by 25 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Pale King is on the 2706th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in German Wikipedia and cited 58 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #20786 in December 2011
  • Global: #76071 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #156539 in November 2013
  • Global: #51477 in April 2011

There are 7 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
The Pale King
36.5012
2Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
29.0493
3Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
27.2175
4German (de)
Der bleiche König
19.4061
5Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
17.2247
6Italian (it)
Il re pallido
15.4337
7French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
11.4297
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Der bleiche König" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Pale King
1 870 919
2Italian (it)
Il re pallido
92 359
3German (de)
Der bleiche König
51 354
4French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
7 118
5Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
2 398
6Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
2 167
7Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
1 851
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Der bleiche König" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Pale King
12 496
2Italian (it)
Il re pallido
428
3Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
381
4German (de)
Der bleiche König
261
5French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
140
6Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
44
7Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
38
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Der bleiche König" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Pale King
84
2German (de)
Der bleiche König
25
3Italian (it)
Il re pallido
23
4French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
9
5Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
3
6Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
3
7Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Der bleiche König" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Italian (it)
Il re pallido
2
2English (en)
The Pale King
1
3German (de)
Der bleiche König
0
4Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
0
5Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
0
6French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
0
7Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Der bleiche König" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Pale King
38
2German (de)
Der bleiche König
7
3French (fr)
Le Roi pâle
5
4Spanish (es)
El rey pálido
3
5Italian (it)
Il re pallido
3
6Finnish (fi)
The Pale King
1
7Portuguese (pt)
The Pale King
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Der bleiche König
enEnglish
The Pale King
esSpanish
El rey pálido
fiFinnish
The Pale King
frFrench
Le Roi pâle
itItalian
Il re pallido
ptPortuguese
The Pale King

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#156539
11.2013
Global:
#51477
04.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#20786
12.2011
Global:
#76071
04.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Pale King from Wikipedia articles about David Foster Wallace, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, This Is Water, Something to Do with Paying Attention and David Foster Wallace bibliography. Whereas reading the article about The Pale King people most often go to Wikipedia articles on David Foster Wallace, Karen L. Green, Infinite Jest, 2012 Pulitzer Prize and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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