Curiosity killed the cat

Curiosity killed the cat - proverb. Article “Curiosity killed the cat” in English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.97 points.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Curiosity killed the cat”, its content was written by 157 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in English Wikipedia and cited 54 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22645 in May 2015
• Global: #51165 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19970 in May 2018
• Global: #41577 in May 2018

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	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		23.6781
2	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		22.5025
3	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		21.5014
4	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		18.7051
5	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		16.4148
6	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		13.0883
7	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		11.3765
8	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		4.7897

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Curiosity killed the cat" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		3 727 936
2	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		303 438
3	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		190 460
4	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		75 291
5	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		72 258
6	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		14 732
7	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		470
8	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		36

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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 "Curiosity killed the cat" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		8 307
2	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		1 127
3	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		506
4	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		201
5	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		191
6	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		135
7	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		27
8	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		7

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

Language versions of the article "Curiosity killed the cat" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		157
2	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		45
3	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		20
4	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		15
5	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		8
6	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		5
7	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		2
8	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		1

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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 "Curiosity killed the cat" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		0
2	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		0
3	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		0
4	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		0
5	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		0
6	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		0
7	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		0
8	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		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 "Curiosity killed the cat" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Curiosity killed the cat		30
2	Chinese (zh) 好奇害死猫		13
3	Hebrew (he) הסקרנות הרגה את החתול		5
4	Arabic (ar) الفضول قتل القطة		2
5	Indonesian (id) Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh		2
6	Russian (ru) Любопытство убило кошку		2
7	Persian (fa) کنجکاوی گربه را کشت		0
8	Portuguese (pt) A curiosidade matou o gato		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الفضول قتل القطة
en	English Curiosity killed the cat
fa	Persian کنجکاوی گربه را کشت
he	Hebrew הסקרנות הרגה את החתול
id	Indonesian Rasa penasaran membuat kucing terbunuh
pt	Portuguese A curiosidade matou o gato
ru	Russian Любопытство убило кошку
zh	Chinese 好奇害死猫

Best Rank

English: #19970 05.2018

Global: #41577 05.2018

Best Rank

English: #22645 05.2015

Global: #51165 05.2019

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