Prelude to Foundation

Prelude to Foundation - 1988 novel by Isaac Asimov. This book is the 3718^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Prelude to Foundation” in English Wikipedia has 16 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.84 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Prelude to Foundation”, its content was written by 95 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 374 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Prelude to Foundation is on the 3718^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 72 times in English Wikipedia and cited 800 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #356 in February 2001
• Global: #356 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #55192 in October 2021
• Global: #57679 in October 2021

There are 16 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	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		16.5711
2	Czech (cs) Předehra k Nadaci		16.3064
3	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		16.0101
4	Hungarian (hu) Az Alapítvány előtt		15.7415
5	Romanian (ro) Preludiul Fundației		12.9995
6	Hebrew (he) בטרם המוסד		12.1343
7	Catalan (ca) Preludi a la Fundació		11.3777
8	Persian (fa) سرآغاز بنیاد		11.019
9	Polish (pl) Preludium Fundacji		10.7911
10	Thai (th) กำเนิดสถาบันสถาปนา		8.8071

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Prelude to Foundation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		732 058
2	French (fr) Prélude à Fondation		150 394
3	Russian (ru) Прелюдия к Основанию		142 817
4	Spanish (es) Preludio a la Fundación		131 428
5	Italian (it) Preludio alla Fondazione		111 796
6	Polish (pl) Preludium Fundacji		51 417
7	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーションへの序曲		38 965
8	Hungarian (hu) Az Alapítvány előtt		28 590
9	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		23 983
10	Romanian (ro) Preludiul Fundației		16 753

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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 "Prelude to Foundation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		3 686
2	French (fr) Prélude à Fondation		826
3	Russian (ru) Прелюдия к Основанию		815
4	Italian (it) Preludio alla Fondazione		490
5	Spanish (es) Preludio a la Fundación		396
6	Polish (pl) Preludium Fundacji		188
7	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーションへの序曲		184
8	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		122
9	Ukrainian (uk) Прелюдія до Фундації		120
10	Hungarian (hu) Az Alapítvány előtt		103

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		95
2	French (fr) Prélude à Fondation		64
3	Italian (it) Preludio alla Fondazione		41
4	Hungarian (hu) Az Alapítvány előtt		24
5	Spanish (es) Preludio a la Fundación		22
6	Russian (ru) Прелюдия к Основанию		20
7	Polish (pl) Preludium Fundacji		19
8	Hebrew (he) בטרם המוסד		18
9	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		14
10	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーションへの序曲		12

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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 "Prelude to Foundation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Preludio alla Fondazione		1
2	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		1
3	Catalan (ca) Preludi a la Fundació		0
4	Czech (cs) Předehra k Nadaci		0
5	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		0
6	Spanish (es) Preludio a la Fundación		0
7	Persian (fa) سرآغاز بنیاد		0
8	French (fr) Prélude à Fondation		0
9	Hebrew (he) בטרם המוסד		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Az Alapítvány előtt		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 "Prelude to Foundation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Hebrew (he) בטרם המוסד		129
2	Czech (cs) Předehra k Nadaci		94
3	French (fr) Prélude à Fondation		80
4	English (en) Prelude to Foundation		72
5	Romanian (ro) Preludiul Fundației		72
6	Italian (it) Preludio alla Fondazione		55
7	Japanese (ja) ファウンデーションへの序曲		52
8	Russian (ru) Прелюдия к Основанию		47
9	Ukrainian (uk) Прелюдія до Фундації		35
10	Chinese (zh) 基地前奏		35

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Preludi a la Fundació
cs	Czech Předehra k Nadaci
en	English Prelude to Foundation
es	Spanish Preludio a la Fundación
fa	Persian سرآغاز بنیاد
fr	French Prélude à Fondation
he	Hebrew בטרם המוסד
hu	Hungarian Az Alapítvány előtt
it	Italian Preludio alla Fondazione
ja	Japanese ファウンデーションへの序曲
pl	Polish Preludium Fundacji
ro	Romanian Preludiul Fundației
ru	Russian Прелюдия к Основанию
th	Thai กำเนิดสถาบันสถาปนา
uk	Ukrainian Прелюдія до Фундації
zh	Chinese 基地前奏

Best Rank

English: #55192 10.2021

Global: #57679 10.2021

Best Rank

English: #356 02.2001

Global: #356 02.2001

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