Death and the Compass

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Death and the Compass

Quality:

Death and the Compass - 1942 short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This book is the 7943rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Death and the Compass” in English Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.49 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 7943rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Death and the Compass”, its content was written by 37 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 76 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Death and the Compass is on the 7943rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 85 times in English Wikipedia and cited 150 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #39492 in October 2010
  • Global: #121912 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #258734 in April 2011
  • Global: #298293 in October 2010

There are 4 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
1Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
14.0015
2English (en)
Death and the Compass
9.2968
3Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
4.6248
4Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
1.166
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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 "Death and the Compass" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Death and the Compass
327 846
2Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
297 847
3Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
13 559
4Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
3 381
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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 "Death and the Compass" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Death and the Compass
1 265
2Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
720
3Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
131
4Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
24
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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 "Death and the Compass" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Death and the Compass
37
2Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
30
3Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
7
4Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
2
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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 "Death and the Compass" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Death and the Compass
0
2Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
0
3Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
0
4Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
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 "Death and the Compass" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Death and the Compass
85
2Italian (it)
La morte e la bussola
47
3Persian (fa)
مرگ و پرگار
10
4Spanish (es)
La muerte y la brújula
8
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Death and the Compass
esSpanish
La muerte y la brújula
faPersian
مرگ و پرگار
itItalian
La morte e la bussola

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#258734
04.2011
Global:
#298293
10.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#39492
10.2010
Global:
#121912
05.2008

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Death and the Compass from Wikipedia articles about Ficciones, Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges bibliography, The Name of the Rose and Death and the Compass. Whereas reading the article about Death and the Compass people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Zenos paradoxes, Death and the Compass, Kabbalah, Tetragrammaton and Jorge Luis Borges.

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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