After the Ball (short story)

After the Ball - short story by Leo Tolstoy. This book is the 8149^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “After the Ball (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 63.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 57 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Russian.

Since the creation of article “After the Ball (short story)”, its content was written by 21 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 96 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

After the Ball is on the 8149^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 118 times in English Wikipedia and cited 278 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9067 in March 2016
• Global: #37201 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #375096 in October 2024
• Global: #169951 in February 2011

There are 8 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) After the Ball (short story)		63.2771
2	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		32.3248
3	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		29.6828
4	German (de) Nach dem Ball		18.1442
5	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		16.219
6	Russian (ru) После бала		13.5582
7	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		9.4299
8	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		1.9902

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

The most popular language versions of the article "After the Ball (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) После бала		520 614
2	English (en) After the Ball (short story)		84 438
3	German (de) Nach dem Ball		5 223
4	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		4 763
5	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		4 208
6	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		2 594
7	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		1 206
8	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		1 044

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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 "After the Ball (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) После бала		1 528
2	English (en) After the Ball (short story)		1 009
3	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		57
4	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		52
5	German (de) Nach dem Ball		43
6	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		12
7	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		8
8	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) После бала		43
2	English (en) After the Ball (short story)		21
3	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		11
4	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		8
5	German (de) Nach dem Ball		4
6	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		4
7	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		3
8	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		2

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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 "After the Ball (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Nach dem Ball		0
2	English (en) After the Ball (short story)		0
3	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		0
4	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		0
5	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		0
6	Russian (ru) После бала		0
7	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		0
8	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		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 "After the Ball (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) After the Ball (short story)		118
2	German (de) Nach dem Ball		79
3	Russian (ru) После бала		53
4	Chinese (zh) 舞会之后		17
5	Dutch (nl) Na het bal		5
6	Italian (it) Dopo il ballo		3
7	Swedish (sv) Efter balen		2
8	Armenian (hy) Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Nach dem Ball
en	English After the Ball (short story)
hy	Armenian Պարահանդեսից հետո (պատմվածք)
it	Italian Dopo il ballo
nl	Dutch Na het bal
ru	Russian После бала
sv	Swedish Efter balen
zh	Chinese 舞会之后

Best Rank

English: #375096 10.2024

Global: #169951 02.2011

Best Rank

English: #9067 03.2016

Global: #37201 03.2016

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