Filth (novel)

Filth - 1998 novel by Irvine Welsh. This book is the 2961^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Filth (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Filth (novel)”, its content was written by 74 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Filth is on the 2961^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 32 times in English Wikipedia and cited 83 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18855 in August 2013
• Global: #63607 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13525 in October 2013
• Global: #26693 in October 2013

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) Filth (novel)		26.9185
2	Italian (it) Il Lercio		13.5342
3	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		12.9212
4	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		12.3765
5	French (fr) Une ordure		11.7635
6	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		7.8942
7	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		4.7144
8	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		4.1062

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Filth (novel)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Filth (novel)		1 168 060
2	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		463 791
3	Italian (it) Il Lercio		110 505
4	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		51 147
5	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		21 129
6	French (fr) Une ordure		20 736
7	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		8 819
8	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		4 795

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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 "Filth (novel)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Filth (novel)		3 750
2	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		1 389
3	Italian (it) Il Lercio		316
4	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		174
5	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		73
6	French (fr) Une ordure		66
7	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		45
8	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Filth (novel)		74
2	Italian (it) Il Lercio		40
3	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		32
4	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		19
5	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		15
6	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		13
7	French (fr) Une ordure		10
8	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		6

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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 "Filth (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		1
2	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		0
3	English (en) Filth (novel)		0
4	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		0
5	French (fr) Une ordure		0
6	Italian (it) Il Lercio		0
7	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		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 "Filth (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Filth (novel)		32
2	Russian (ru) Дерьмо (роман)		20
3	Italian (it) Il Lercio		7
4	French (fr) Une ordure		6
5	Czech (cs) Sviňák (kniha)		5
6	German (de) Drecksau (Roman)		5
7	Finnish (fi) Paska (romaani)		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Лайно (роман)		4

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Sviňák (kniha)
de	German Drecksau (Roman)
en	English Filth (novel)
fi	Finnish Paska (romaani)
fr	French Une ordure
it	Italian Il Lercio
ru	Russian Дерьмо (роман)
uk	Ukrainian Лайно (роман)

Best Rank

English: #13525 10.2013

Global: #26693 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #18855 08.2013

Global: #63607 12.2010

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