Human-interest story

Human interest story - type of soft news. Article “Human-interest story” in English Wikipedia has 41.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 10 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 “Human-interest story”, its content was written by 85 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 442 times in English Wikipedia and cited 550 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15737 in August 2003
• Global: #25429 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52769 in November 2013
• Global: #99499 in November 2013

There are 9 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) Human-interest story		41.7024
2	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		29.3071
3	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		26.6207
4	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		25.5741
5	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		20.9859
6	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		18.6342
7	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		13.8928
8	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		11.5715
9	German (de) Human Interest		1.4353

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Human-interest story" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human-interest story		793 860
2	German (de) Human Interest		47 622
3	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		19 119
4	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		15 606
5	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		4 222
6	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		2 920
7	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		2 723
8	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		1 080
9	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		1 032

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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 "Human-interest story" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human-interest story		2 387
2	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		71
3	German (de) Human Interest		63
4	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		59
5	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		43
6	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		24
7	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		21
8	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		11
9	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		9

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

Language versions of the article "Human-interest story" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human-interest story		85
2	German (de) Human Interest		28
3	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		6
4	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		3
6	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		3
7	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		3
8	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		2
9	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		2

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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 "Human-interest story" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Human Interest		0
2	English (en) Human-interest story		0
3	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		0
4	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		0
5	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		0
6	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		0
9	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		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 "Human-interest story" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Human-interest story		442
2	Dutch (nl) Humaninterestjournalistiek		66
3	German (de) Human Interest		12
4	Japanese (ja) ヒューマンインタレスト記事		10
5	Vietnamese (vi) Truyện nhân cảm		6
6	Indonesian (id) Minat insani		5
7	Malay (ms) Cerita pesona		4
8	Chinese (zh) 人性化故事		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Reportagem de interesse humano		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Human Interest
en	English Human-interest story
id	Indonesian Minat insani
ja	Japanese ヒューマンインタレスト記事
ms	Malay Cerita pesona
nl	Dutch Humaninterestjournalistiek
pt	Portuguese Reportagem de interesse humano
vi	Vietnamese Truyện nhân cảm
zh	Chinese 人性化故事

Best Rank

English: #52769 11.2013

Global: #99499 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #15737 08.2003

Global: #25429 08.2003

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