A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol - novella by the English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1843. This book is the 109^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 90^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “A Christmas Carol” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 162 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7176^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5248^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 90^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8042^nd most popular in all topics.

The 6662^nd most popular in AI.

The 109^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “A Christmas Carol” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “A Christmas Carol”, its content was written by 1086 registered users of English Wikipedia (5248^th place) and edited by 3087 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6662^nd place).

A Christmas Carol is on the 90^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 109^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 1682 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5749 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #51 in December 2008
• Global: #200 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #159 in November 2009
• Global: #291 in December 2009

There are 42 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) A Christmas Carol		100
2	Indonesian (id) A Christmas Carol		100
3	French (fr) Un chant de Noël		96.1852
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Eit juleeventyr		90
5	Azerbaijani (az) Milad nəğməsi		84.6802
6	Spanish (es) A Christmas Carol		84.4987
7	Simple English (simple) A Christmas Carol		81.718
8	Romanian (ro) Colind de Crăciun		68.3129
9	Czech (cs) Vánoční koleda (Dickens)		63.4383
10	German (de) A Christmas Carol		59.673

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A Christmas Carol		16 767 771
2	Spanish (es) A Christmas Carol		2 210 233
3	Italian (it) Canto di Natale		1 936 795
4	Japanese (ja) クリスマス・キャロル (小説)		1 652 480
5	German (de) A Christmas Carol		1 629 514
6	Polish (pl) Opowieść wigilijna		1 238 519
7	Russian (ru) Рождественская песнь в прозе		876 554
8	French (fr) Un chant de Noël		770 050
9	Chinese (zh) 小氣財神		726 402
10	Portuguese (pt) A Christmas Carol		450 977

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) A Christmas Carol		30 376
2	Japanese (ja) クリスマス・キャロル (小説)		3 920
3	Spanish (es) A Christmas Carol		2 921
4	Russian (ru) Рождественская песнь в прозе		2 226
5	French (fr) Un chant de Noël		2 093
6	Italian (it) Canto di Natale		1 959
7	Chinese (zh) 小氣財神		1 665
8	German (de) A Christmas Carol		1 324
9	Portuguese (pt) A Christmas Carol		1 179
10	Polish (pl) Opowieść wigilijna		942

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A Christmas Carol		1 086
2	German (de) A Christmas Carol		246
3	Italian (it) Canto di Natale		238
4	French (fr) Un chant de Noël		184
5	Spanish (es) A Christmas Carol		144
6	Dutch (nl) A Christmas Carol (boek)		111
7	Polish (pl) Opowieść wigilijna		105
8	Japanese (ja) クリスマス・キャロル (小説)		78
9	Russian (ru) Рождественская песнь в прозе		72
10	Chinese (zh) 小氣財神		66

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) A Christmas Carol		3
2	German (de) A Christmas Carol		2
3	Polish (pl) Opowieść wigilijna		1
4	Russian (ru) Рождественская песнь в прозе		1
5	Simple English (simple) A Christmas Carol		1
6	Chinese (zh) 小氣財神		1
7	Arabic (ar) ترنيمة عيد الميلاد (رواية)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Milad nəğməsi		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Коледна песен (новела)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Cançó de Nadal (Dickens)		0

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

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