The Lottery

The Lottery - 1948 short story by Shirley Jackson. This book is the 514^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "The Lottery" in German Wikipedia has 31 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 15 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "The Lottery", its content was written by 26 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 716 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Lottery is on the 514^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in German Wikipedia and cited 212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #5660 in June 2013
• Global: #13509 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #7650 in June 2013
• Global: #15832 in March 2008

There are 16 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 August 1, 2024 (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) The Lottery		48.7801
2	French (fr) La Loterie (nouvelle)		41.2754
3	Bulgarian (bg) Лотарията		35.3246
4	German (de) The Lottery		31.0265
5	Ukrainian (uk) Лотерея (оповідання)		27.5157
6	Spanish (es) La lotería		22.5079
7	Arabic (ar) اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)		21.6299
8	Korean (ko) 제비뽑기 (단편소설)		17.7114
9	Indonesian (id) The Lottery		15.5867
10	Serbian (sr) Лутрија (приповетка)		14.6241

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lottery		7 471 508
2	German (de) The Lottery		120 357
3	Spanish (es) La lotería		96 915
4	Italian (it) La lotteria		67 672
5	Arabic (ar) اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)		35 527
6	Portuguese (pt) The Lottery		29 334
7	Persian (fa) لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)		24 618
8	Hebrew (he) ההגרלה		20 886
9	Indonesian (id) The Lottery		18 208
10	Korean (ko) 제비뽑기 (단편소설)		17 786

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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 "The Lottery" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lottery		25 423
2	Spanish (es) La lotería		836
3	Italian (it) La lotteria		499
4	German (de) The Lottery		480
5	Korean (ko) 제비뽑기 (단편소설)		383
6	French (fr) La Loterie (nouvelle)		325
7	Persian (fa) لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)		174
8	Portuguese (pt) The Lottery		130
9	Swedish (sv) Lotteriet		120
10	Arabic (ar) اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)		108

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

Language versions of the article "The Lottery" 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 Lottery		550
2	Hebrew (he) ההגרלה		27
3	German (de) The Lottery		26
4	Italian (it) La lotteria		24
5	Persian (fa) لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)		13
6	Portuguese (pt) The Lottery		12
7	Ukrainian (uk) Лотерея (оповідання)		12
8	Spanish (es) La lotería		11
9	French (fr) La Loterie (nouvelle)		11
10	Bulgarian (bg) Лотарията		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 "The Lottery" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lottery		5
2	French (fr) La Loterie (nouvelle)		1
3	Arabic (ar) اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Лотарията		0
5	German (de) The Lottery		0
6	Spanish (es) La lotería		0
7	Basque (eu) The Lottery		0
8	Persian (fa) لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)		0
9	Hebrew (he) ההגרלה		0
10	Indonesian (id) The Lottery		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 "The Lottery" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Lottery		97
2	French (fr) La Loterie (nouvelle)		29
3	Spanish (es) La lotería		19
4	Persian (fa) لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)		11
5	German (de) The Lottery		10
6	Ukrainian (uk) Лотерея (оповідання)		10
7	Arabic (ar) اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)		6
8	Italian (it) La lotteria		6
9	Portuguese (pt) The Lottery		6
10	Indonesian (id) The Lottery		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اليانصيب (قصة قصيرة)
bg	Bulgarian Лотарията
de	German The Lottery
en	English The Lottery
es	Spanish La lotería
eu	Basque The Lottery
fa	Persian لاتاری (داستان کوتاه)
fr	French La Loterie (nouvelle)
he	Hebrew ההגרלה
id	Indonesian The Lottery
it	Italian La lotteria
ko	Korean 제비뽑기 (단편소설)
pt	Portuguese The Lottery
sr	Serbian Лутрија (приповетка)
sv	Swedish Lotteriet
uk	Ukrainian Лотерея (оповідання)

Best Rank

German: #7650 06.2013

Global: #15832 03.2008

Best Rank

German: #5660 06.2013

Global: #13509 05.2023

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