The Billiard Ball

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The Billiard Ball

Quality:

The Billiard Ball - short story by Isaac Asimov. Article “The Billiard Ball” in English Wikipedia has 11.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.6 points.

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

Since the creation of article “The Billiard Ball”, its content was written by 31 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 71 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 183 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #127228 in September 2005
  • Global: #167771 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #244518 in October 2011
  • Global: #404180 in October 2011

There are 6 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
1German (de)
Die Billardkugel
27.7594
2Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
16.4619
3English (en)
The Billiard Ball
11.4307
4Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
7.6557
5French (fr)
La Boule de billard
7.2202
6Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
2.529
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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 Billiard Ball" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Billiard Ball
98 967
2French (fr)
La Boule de billard
8 393
3Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
5 971
4Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
5 203
5German (de)
Die Billardkugel
5 069
6Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
660
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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 Billiard Ball" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Billiard Ball
956
2Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
36
3German (de)
Die Billardkugel
31
4French (fr)
La Boule de billard
22
5Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
14
6Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
12
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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 Billiard Ball" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Billiard Ball
31
2French (fr)
La Boule de billard
13
3German (de)
Die Billardkugel
12
4Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
7
5Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
5
6Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
3
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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 Billiard Ball" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
0
2German (de)
Die Billardkugel
0
3English (en)
The Billiard Ball
0
4French (fr)
La Boule de billard
0
5Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
0
6Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
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 Billiard Ball" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Czech (cs)
Kulečníková koule
95
2Ukrainian (uk)
Більярдна куля (оповідання)
47
3English (en)
The Billiard Ball
29
4Italian (it)
La palla da biliardo
6
5French (fr)
La Boule de billard
5
6German (de)
Die Billardkugel
1
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Kulečníková koule
deGerman
Die Billardkugel
enEnglish
The Billiard Ball
frFrench
La Boule de billard
itItalian
La palla da biliardo
ukUkrainian
Більярдна куля (оповідання)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#244518
10.2011
Global:
#404180
10.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#127228
09.2005
Global:
#167771
08.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Billiard Ball from Wikipedia articles about The Best of Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams, Wikipedia article, Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography and Asimovs Mysteries. Whereas reading the article about The Billiard Ball people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Cherenkov radiation, Isaac Asimov, The Best of Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams and Asimovs Mysteries.

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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