The Big Nowhere

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The Big Nowhere

Quality:

The Big Nowhere - 1988 novel by James Ellroy. This book is the 9088th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Big Nowhere” in English Wikipedia has 20.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.07 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 9088th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Big Nowhere”, its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Big Nowhere is on the 9088th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 47 times in English Wikipedia and cited 118 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #63252 in November 2005
  • Global: #144185 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #234063 in May 2011
  • Global: #346338 in August 2015

There are 7 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)
The Big Nowhere
20.3705
2Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
11.87
3Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
10.7864
4Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
10.5215
5French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
3.2618
6Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
2.4834
7Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
2.2379
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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 "The Big Nowhere" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Big Nowhere
415 709
2French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
65 944
3Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
48 326
4Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
11 544
5Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
4 798
6Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
2 666
7Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
2 344
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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 "The Big Nowhere" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Big Nowhere
2 392
2French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
266
3Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
210
4Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
79
5Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
37
6Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
34
7Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
6
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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 "The Big Nowhere" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Big Nowhere
48
2French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
29
3Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
29
4Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
9
5Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
7
6Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
6
7Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
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 "The Big Nowhere" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Big Nowhere
0
2Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
0
3French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
0
4Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
0
5Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
0
6Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
0
7Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
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 "The Big Nowhere" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Big Nowhere
47
2French (fr)
Le Grand Nulle part
31
3Italian (it)
Il grande nulla
20
4Norwegian (no)
The Big Nowhere
6
5Spanish (es)
El gran desierto
5
6Chinese (zh)
絕命之鄉
5
7Swedish (sv)
Den stora tomheten
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
The Big Nowhere
esSpanish
El gran desierto
frFrench
Le Grand Nulle part
itItalian
Il grande nulla
noNorwegian
The Big Nowhere
svSwedish
Den stora tomheten
zhChinese
絕命之鄉

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#234063
05.2011
Global:
#346338
08.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#63252
11.2005
Global:
#144185
11.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Big Nowhere from Wikipedia articles about James Ellroy, L.A. Quartet, The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential and Sleepy Lagoon murder. Whereas reading the article about The Big Nowhere people most often go to Wikipedia articles on L.A. Confidential, L.A. Quartet, Sleepy Lagoon murder, The Black Dahlia and James Ellroy.

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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