The Thing

Quality:

The Thing - 1982 film directed by John Carpenter. This film is the 577^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “The Thing” in Greek Wikipedia has 58 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 112 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 577^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7620^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Thing”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Greek Wikipedia and edited by 2400 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Thing is on the 577^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Greek Wikipedia and cited 2467 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Greek): #2080 in June 2023
• Global: #197 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Greek): #17274 in December 2018
• Global: #964 in October 2011

There are 41 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) The Thing (1982 film)		100
2	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		100
3	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		100
4	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		96.3636
5	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		92.6316
6	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		90
7	Greek (el) The Thing		58.0492
8	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		54.798
9	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		39.5651
10	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		38.903

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Thing (1982 film)		15 260 010
2	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		2 268 362
3	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		1 971 860
4	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		1 425 569
5	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		1 401 655
6	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		1 376 884
7	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		1 186 711
8	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		412 931
9	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		320 010
10	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		156 369

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 Thing (1982 film)		88 349
2	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		12 602
3	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		5 554
4	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		5 390
5	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		5 277
6	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		5 082
7	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		4 282
8	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		2 195
9	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		1 880
10	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		1 315

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Thing (1982 film)		845
2	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		197
3	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		170
4	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		165
5	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		160
6	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		100
7	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		96
8	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		61
9	Dutch (nl) The Thing		60
10	Hungarian (hu) A dolog (film, 1982)		54

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 Thing (1982 film)		5
2	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		3
3	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		2
4	Czech (cs) Věc (film, 1982)		1
5	Galician (gl) The Thing (filme de 1982)		1
6	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		1
7	Dutch (nl) The Thing		1
8	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		1
9	Arabic (ar) الشيء (فيلم 1982)		0
10	Belarusian (be) Нешта (фільм, 1982)		0

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

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