Der dunkle Wald

Quality:

The Dark Forest - 2008 science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, sequel to The Three-Body Problem. This book is the 913^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Der dunkle Wald” in German Wikipedia has 22.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 913^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Der dunkle Wald” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Der dunkle Wald”, its content was written by 28 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 419 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Dark Forest is on the 913^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 50 times in German Wikipedia and cited 264 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #6196 in September 2020
• Global: #6425 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1074 in March 2024
• Global: #699 in March 2024

There are 18 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) 三体II：黑暗森林		30.697
2	English (en) The Dark Forest		25.4252
3	Ukrainian (uk) Темний ліс (роман)		22.6226
4	German (de) Der dunkle Wald		22.3079
5	Portuguese (pt) A Floresta Sombria		20.1892
6	Arabic (ar) الغابة المظلمة		19.929
7	Finnish (fi) Synkkä metsä		19.2053
8	Russian (ru) Тёмный лес (роман)		19.1075
9	Italian (it) La materia del cosmo		18.7885
10	French (fr) La Forêt sombre		16.2964

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Dark Forest		3 568 174
2	Russian (ru) Тёмный лес (роман)		523 089
3	Chinese (zh) 三体II：黑暗森林		516 779
4	German (de) Der dunkle Wald		275 315
5	Spanish (es) El bosque oscuro		243 545
6	French (fr) La Forêt sombre		226 752
7	Japanese (ja) 三体II 黒暗森林		155 984
8	Italian (it) La materia del cosmo		136 795
9	Polish (pl) Ciemny las		66 567
10	Vietnamese (vi) Khu rừng đen tối		26 518

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 Dark Forest		29 108
2	Russian (ru) Тёмный лес (роман)		5 758
3	Japanese (ja) 三体II 黒暗森林		3 406
4	French (fr) La Forêt sombre		2 635
5	Spanish (es) El bosque oscuro		2 165
6	Chinese (zh) 三体II：黑暗森林		2 088
7	German (de) Der dunkle Wald		1 975
8	Italian (it) La materia del cosmo		1 578
9	Polish (pl) Ciemny las		570
10	Portuguese (pt) A Floresta Sombria		501

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Dark Forest		150
2	Chinese (zh) 三体II：黑暗森林		68
3	French (fr) La Forêt sombre		35
4	German (de) Der dunkle Wald		28
5	Japanese (ja) 三体II 黒暗森林		26
6	Polish (pl) Ciemny las		22
7	Russian (ru) Тёмный лес (роман)		17
8	Ukrainian (uk) Темний ліс (роман)		16
9	Italian (it) La materia del cosmo		13
10	Spanish (es) El bosque oscuro		11

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 Dark Forest		2
2	German (de) Der dunkle Wald		1
3	Spanish (es) El bosque oscuro		1
4	Hungarian (hu) A sötét erdő		1
5	Indonesian (id) Hutan Gelap		1
6	Romanian (ro) Pădurea întunecată		1
7	Arabic (ar) الغابة المظلمة		0
8	Finnish (fi) Synkkä metsä		0
9	French (fr) La Forêt sombre		0
10	Italian (it) La materia del cosmo		0

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

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