Short story

Quality:

Short story - brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose. Article “Short story” in English Wikipedia has 56.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10.04 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7875^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2129^th most popular in all topics.

The 3898^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Short story”, its content was written by 945 registered users of English Wikipedia (7875^th place) and edited by 4031 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3898^th place).

The article is cited 9638 times in English Wikipedia (2110^th place) and cited 60868 times in all languages (2762^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #600 in April 2001
• Global: #531 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3980 in June 2012
• Global: #691 in November 2011

There are 52 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, 2026 (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	Russian (ru) Рассказ		78.1123
2	English (en) Short story		56.9197
3	Spanish (es) Cuento		53.1265
4	Catalan (ca) Conte		46.8168
5	Malay (ms) Cerpen		44.0805
6	Polish (pl) Opowiadanie		43.3361
7	Indonesian (id) Cerita pendek		36.9415
8	Arabic (ar) قصة قصيرة		36.5563
9	Slovenian (sl) Kratka zgodba		34.5328
10	Czech (cs) Povídka		33.8742

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Cuento		23 937 737
2	English (en) Short story		12 909 431
3	Portuguese (pt) Conto		4 113 487
4	Indonesian (id) Cerita pendek		3 545 532
5	French (fr) Nouvelle		3 328 889
6	German (de) Kurzgeschichte		3 045 998
7	Russian (ru) Рассказ		2 620 430
8	Turkish (tr) Hikâye		1 075 162
9	Arabic (ar) قصة قصيرة		1 000 548
10	Polish (pl) Opowiadanie		952 597

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Short story		17 945
2	Spanish (es) Cuento		10 971
3	Russian (ru) Рассказ		2 655
4	French (fr) Nouvelle		2 499
5	German (de) Kurzgeschichte		2 356
6	Persian (fa) داستان کوتاه		1 313
7	Turkish (tr) Hikâye		1 218
8	Japanese (ja) 短編小説		1 121
9	Indonesian (id) Cerita pendek		1 060
10	Portuguese (pt) Conto		1 055

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Short story		945
2	Spanish (es) Cuento		479
3	French (fr) Nouvelle		347
4	German (de) Kurzgeschichte		219
5	Portuguese (pt) Conto		184
6	Hebrew (he) סיפור קצר		127
7	Russian (ru) Рассказ		106
8	Persian (fa) داستان کوتاه		96
9	Turkish (tr) Hikâye		96
10	Polish (pl) Opowiadanie		91

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Cuento		3
2	Arabic (ar) قصة قصيرة		2
3	French (fr) Nouvelle		2
4	Basque (eu) Ipuin		1
5	Indonesian (id) Cerita pendek		1
6	Korean (ko) 단편 소설		1
7	Russian (ru) Рассказ		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Hekayə		0
9	Belarusian (be) Апавяданне		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Разказ		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information