Rain (short story)

Rain - short story by William Somerset Maugham. Article “Rain (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 5 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 “Rain (short story)”, its content was written by 22 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 43 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 83 times in English Wikipedia and cited 96 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #149407 in May 2018
• Global: #258835 in July 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #452392 in January 2024
• Global: #707918 in January 2024

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) Rain (short story)		35.0354
2	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		29.2145
3	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		26.9181
4	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		26.438
5	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		23.6273
6	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		21.7789
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		20.2417
8	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		15.91

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Rain (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rain (short story)		151 244
2	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		2 603
3	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		1 811
4	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		964
5	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		454
6	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		398
7	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		267
8	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		104

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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 "Rain (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rain (short story)		1 605
2	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		35
3	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		25
4	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		12
5	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		9
6	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		6
7	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		6
8	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		5

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

Language versions of the article "Rain (short 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) Rain (short story)		22
2	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		6
3	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		5
4	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		3
5	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		2
7	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		1

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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 "Rain (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rain (short story)		0
2	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		0
3	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		0
4	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		0
5	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		0
8	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		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 "Rain (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rain (short story)		83
2	Ukrainian (uk) Дощ (оповідання)		7
3	Persian (fa) باران (داستان کوتاه)		2
4	Indonesian (id) Rain (cerita pendek)		2
5	Lithuanian (lt) Lietus (apsakymas)		1
6	Uzbek (uz) Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)		1
7	Armenian (hy) Անձրև (պատմվածք)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Rain (conto)		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Rain (short story)
fa	Persian باران (داستان کوتاه)
hy	Armenian Անձրև (պատմվածք)
id	Indonesian Rain (cerita pendek)
lt	Lithuanian Lietus (apsakymas)
pt	Portuguese Rain (conto)
uk	Ukrainian Дощ (оповідання)
uz	Uzbek Yomgʻir (qisqa hikoya)

Best Rank

English: #452392 01.2024

Global: #707918 01.2024

Best Rank

English: #149407 05.2018

Global: #258835 07.2024

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