Howl

Howl - 1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement. This book is the 2656^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 999^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Howl” in German Wikipedia has 16.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 8 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Howl”, its content was written by 44 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Howl is on the 999^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 2656^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 39 times in German Wikipedia and cited 482 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #15662 in January 2011
• Global: #23273 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #5376 in January 2011
• Global: #65840 in March 2023

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	English (en) Howl (poem)		85.7143
2	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		62.0741
3	Polish (pl) Skowyt (poemat)		37.0999
4	Latin (la) Howl		36.2171
5	Chinese (zh) 嚎叫		34.365
6	Ukrainian (uk) Крик (поема)		29.8279
7	Italian (it) Urlo (poema)		28.7911
8	Finnish (fi) Huuto (runo)		28.1824
9	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		27.1296
10	Persian (fa) زوزه (شعر)		21.5566

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Howl" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Howl (poem)		581 988
2	German (de) Howl		348 764
3	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		337 527
4	Italian (it) Urlo (poema)		266 063
5	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		174 019
6	French (fr) Howl		156 694
7	Portuguese (pt) Howl		71 547
8	Polish (pl) Skowyt (poemat)		55 165
9	Swedish (sv) Howl		18 334
10	Finnish (fi) Huuto (runo)		15 961

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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 "Howl" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Howl (poem)		12 679
2	Italian (it) Urlo (poema)		1 181
3	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		847
4	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		730
5	German (de) Howl		647
6	Polish (pl) Skowyt (poemat)		477
7	French (fr) Howl		399
8	Chinese (zh) 嚎叫		194
9	Portuguese (pt) Howl		103
10	Swedish (sv) Howl		50

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Howl (poem)		353
2	Italian (it) Urlo (poema)		59
3	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		46
4	German (de) Howl		44
5	French (fr) Howl		24
6	Polish (pl) Skowyt (poemat)		18
7	Portuguese (pt) Howl		13
8	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		12
9	Catalan (ca) Howl		11
10	Finnish (fi) Huuto (runo)		8

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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 "Howl" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Howl (poem)		3
2	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		2
3	German (de) Howl		1
4	French (fr) Howl		1
5	Catalan (ca) Howl		0
6	Greek (el) Ουρλιαχτό (ποίημα)		0
7	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		0
8	Persian (fa) زوزه (شعر)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Huuto (runo)		0
10	Croatian (hr) Howl		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 "Howl" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Howl (poem)		205
2	German (de) Howl		39
3	Italian (it) Urlo (poema)		38
4	Russian (ru) Вопль (поэма)		34
5	French (fr) Howl		30
6	Portuguese (pt) Howl		19
7	Polish (pl) Skowyt (poemat)		17
8	Ukrainian (uk) Крик (поема)		17
9	Spanish (es) Aullido (poema)		14
10	Finnish (fi) Huuto (runo)		12

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Howl
de	German Howl
el	Greek Ουρλιαχτό (ποίημα)
en	English Howl (poem)
es	Spanish Aullido (poema)
fa	Persian زوزه (شعر)
fi	Finnish Huuto (runo)
fr	French Howl
hr	Croatian Howl
it	Italian Urlo (poema)
la	Latin Howl
pl	Polish Skowyt (poemat)
pt	Portuguese Howl
ru	Russian Вопль (поэма)
sk	Slovak Vytie
sv	Swedish Howl
uk	Ukrainian Крик (поема)
zh	Chinese 嚎叫

Best Rank

German: #5376 01.2011

Global: #65840 03.2023

Best Rank

German: #15662 01.2011

Global: #23273 03.2003

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