Billy Liar

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Billy Liar

Quality:

Billy Liar - 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse. This book is the 9649th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Billy Liar” in English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.22 points.

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:
Global Wikipedia:
The 9649th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Billy Liar” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Billy Liar”, its content was written by 122 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Billy Liar is on the 9649th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 127 times in English Wikipedia and cited 175 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #16937 in March 2003
  • Global: #23524 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #45133 in April 2008
  • Global: #75084 in April 2008

There are 6 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Billy Liar
23.1405
2Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
19.4545
3Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
3.0714
4French (fr)
Billy Liar
2.8396
5Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
1.6195
6Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
1.5831
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Billy Liar" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Billy Liar
471 027
2Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
31 150
3French (fr)
Billy Liar
7 917
4Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
2 158
5Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
1 298
6Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
213
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Billy Liar" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Billy Liar
1 521
2Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
64
3French (fr)
Billy Liar
28
4Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
11
5Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
8
6Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Billy Liar" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Billy Liar
122
2French (fr)
Billy Liar
16
3Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
11
4Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
3
5Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
3
6Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Billy Liar" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Billy Liar
2
2Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
0
3French (fr)
Billy Liar
0
4Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
0
5Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
0
6Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Billy Liar" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Billy Liar
127
2Persian (fa)
بیلی دروغگو
17
3Russian (ru)
Билли-лжец
16
4French (fr)
Billy Liar
10
5Portuguese (pt)
Billy Liar (romance)
3
6Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Billy Liar
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Billy Liar
faPersian
بیلی دروغگو
frFrench
Billy Liar
ptPortuguese
Billy Liar (romance)
ruRussian
Билли-лжец
shSerbo-Croatian
Billy Liar

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#45133
04.2008
Global:
#75084
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#16937
03.2003
Global:
#23524
03.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Billy Liar from Wikipedia articles about Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar, The Importance of Being Idle, Steve Guttenberg and Strangeways, Here We Come. Whereas reading the article about Billy Liar people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar, Billy Liar on the Moon and Billy Liar.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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