Historical fiction

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Historical fiction

Quality:

Historical fiction - story that is set in the past; film and literary genre. Article “Historical fiction” in English Wikipedia has 92 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 115 references and 29 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.

In June 2025 the article “Historical fiction” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Historical fiction”, its content was written by 582 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 750 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6549 times in English Wikipedia (3283rd place) and cited 10340 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1385 in September 2002
  • Global: #2737 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #22421 in January 2022
  • Global: #44406 in April 2010

There are 18 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)
Historical fiction
91.9569
2Ukrainian (uk)
Історична белетристика
69.9405
3Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
65.7396
4Chinese (zh)
历史小说
32.1916
5Vietnamese (vi)
Lịch sử giả tưởng
31.2744
6Swedish (sv)
Historisk fiktion
30.0382
7Arabic (ar)
خيال تاريخي
19.4796
8Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
12.3548
9Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה בדיונית
9.8449
10French (fr)
Fiction historique
9.6535
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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 "Historical fiction" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Historical fiction
5 050 678
2Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
179 871
3Chinese (zh)
历史小说
93 770
4Portuguese (pt)
Ficção histórica
92 385
5French (fr)
Fiction historique
47 773
6Uzbek (uz)
Tarixiy janr
35 180
7Danish (da)
Historisk fiktion
26 150
8Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
24 528
9Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی
23 097
10Dutch (nl)
Historische fictie
9 476
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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 "Historical fiction" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Historical fiction
16 379
2Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
525
3Chinese (zh)
历史小说
430
4Portuguese (pt)
Ficção histórica
343
5French (fr)
Fiction historique
319
6Ukrainian (uk)
Історична белетристика
98
7Uzbek (uz)
Tarixiy janr
96
8Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی
92
9Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
90
10Danish (da)
Historisk fiktion
71
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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 "Historical fiction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Historical fiction
582
2Danish (da)
Historisk fiktion
30
3Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
25
4French (fr)
Fiction historique
24
5Portuguese (pt)
Ficção histórica
18
6Chinese (zh)
历史小说
14
7Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی
13
8Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
9
9Uzbek (uz)
Tarixiy janr
7
10Galician (gl)
Ficción histórica
6
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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 "Historical fiction" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Historical fiction
1
2Vietnamese (vi)
Lịch sử giả tưởng
1
3Arabic (ar)
خيال تاريخي
0
4Danish (da)
Historisk fiktion
0
5Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
0
6Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی
0
7French (fr)
Fiction historique
0
8Galician (gl)
Ficción histórica
0
9Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה בדיונית
0
10Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
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 "Historical fiction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Historical fiction
6 549
2Portuguese (pt)
Ficção histórica
1 060
3Spanish (es)
Ficción histórica
496
4Indonesian (id)
Fiksi sejarah
365
5Chinese (zh)
历史小说
355
6Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی
346
7French (fr)
Fiction historique
279
8Arabic (ar)
خيال تاريخي
227
9Ukrainian (uk)
Історична белетристика
168
10Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה בדיונית
156
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
خيال تاريخي
daDanish
Historisk fiktion
enEnglish
Historical fiction
esSpanish
Ficción histórica
faPersian
داستان تاریخی
frFrench
Fiction historique
glGalician
Ficción histórica
heHebrew
היסטוריה בדיונית
idIndonesian
Fiksi sejarah
koKorean
역사물
nlDutch
Historische fictie
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Historisk fiksjon
ptPortuguese
Ficção histórica
svSwedish
Historisk fiktion
ukUkrainian
Історична белетристика
uzUzbek
Tarixiy janr
viVietnamese
Lịch sử giả tưởng
zhChinese
历史小说

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22421
01.2022
Global:
#44406
04.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1385
09.2002
Global:
#2737
09.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Historical fiction from Wikipedia articles about Historical drama, Blood Meridian, Les Misérables, Assassins Creed and Schindlers List. Whereas reading the article about Historical fiction people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of historical fiction by time period, Alternate history, Historical fantasy, List of historical novelists and History.

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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