A Modest Proposal

Quality:

A Modest Proposal - satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. This book is the 683^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 399^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "A Modest Proposal" in English Wikipedia has 64.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 399^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 683^rd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article "A Modest Proposal" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "A Modest Proposal", its content was written by 428 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 832 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

A Modest Proposal is on the 399^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 683^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 124 times in English Wikipedia and cited 376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #101 in March 2001
• Global: #105 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7887 in October 2019
• Global: #19572 in October 2019

There are 20 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 Modest Proposal		64.0915
2	German (de) A Modest Proposal		24.79
3	Turkish (tr) Mütevazı bir öneri		23.837
4	Dutch (nl) A Modest Proposal		19.578
5	Ukrainian (uk) Скромна пропозиція		17.9759
6	Russian (ru) Скромное предложение		15.6987
7	French (fr) Modeste Proposition		14.792
8	Italian (it) Una modesta proposta		13.8745
9	Catalan (ca) Una proposició modesta		12.3736
10	Persian (fa) پیشنهاد مؤدبانه		9.9697

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A Modest Proposal		6 651 129
2	Japanese (ja) アイルランドの貧民の子供たちが両親及び国の負担となることを防ぎ、国家社会の有益なる存在たらしめるための穏健なる提案		227 636
3	Italian (it) Una modesta proposta		222 323
4	Spanish (es) Una modesta proposición		187 150
5	Swedish (sv) Ett anspråkslöst förslag		167 003
6	French (fr) Modeste Proposition		133 782
7	Russian (ru) Скромное предложение		123 207
8	German (de) A Modest Proposal		87 641
9	Chinese (zh) 一個小小的建議		54 914
10	Dutch (nl) A Modest Proposal		27 433

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 Modest Proposal		26 822
2	Japanese (ja) アイルランドの貧民の子供たちが両親及び国の負担となることを防ぎ、国家社会の有益なる存在たらしめるための穏健なる提案		760
3	Spanish (es) Una modesta proposición		604
4	German (de) A Modest Proposal		553
5	French (fr) Modeste Proposition		514
6	Italian (it) Una modesta proposta		488
7	Russian (ru) Скромное предложение		283
8	Swedish (sv) Ett anspråkslöst förslag		227
9	Portuguese (pt) Uma Modesta Proposta		158
10	Chinese (zh) 一個小小的建議		149

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A Modest Proposal		428
2	French (fr) Modeste Proposition		61
3	Italian (it) Una modesta proposta		57
4	Norwegian (no) Et beskjedent forslag		36
5	Russian (ru) Скромное предложение		35
6	German (de) A Modest Proposal		28
7	Japanese (ja) アイルランドの貧民の子供たちが両親及び国の負担となることを防ぎ、国家社会の有益なる存在たらしめるための穏健なる提案		28
8	Swedish (sv) Ett anspråkslöst förslag		28
9	Spanish (es) Una modesta proposición		23
10	Hebrew (he) הצעה צנועה		23

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 Modest Proposal		2
2	Catalan (ca) Una proposició modesta		0
3	German (de) A Modest Proposal		0
4	Spanish (es) Una modesta proposición		0
5	Persian (fa) پیشنهاد مؤدبانه		0
6	Finnish (fi) Vaatimaton ehdotus, joka estäisi Irlannin lapsia olemasta taakaksi vanhemmilleen tai maalleen		0
7	French (fr) Modeste Proposition		0
8	Hebrew (he) הצעה צנועה		0
9	Italian (it) Una modesta proposta		0
10	Japanese (ja) アイルランドの貧民の子供たちが両親及び国の負担となることを防ぎ、国家社会の有益なる存在たらしめるための穏健なる提案		0

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

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