The Black Swan (short story)

The Black Swan - literary work by Thomas Mann. Article “The Black Swan (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 11.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.62 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 Black Swan (short story)”, its content was written by 33 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in English Wikipedia and cited 245 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #227832 in February 2015
• Global: #43336 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #217652 in December 2010
• Global: #310110 in December 2010

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, 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	German (de) Die Betrogene		52.5154
2	Spanish (es) La engañada		43.002
3	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		26.169
4	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		22.0663
5	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		16.0907
6	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		12.2897
7	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		11.8132
8	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		6.3177

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		126 466
2	German (de) Die Betrogene		125 233
3	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		16 715
4	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		9 916
5	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		5 728
6	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		5 223
7	Spanish (es) La engañada		4 236
8	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		2

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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 "The Black Swan (short story)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		477
2	German (de) Die Betrogene		292
3	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		124
4	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		49
5	Spanish (es) La engañada		40
6	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		35
7	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		1
8	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Black Swan (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Die Betrogene		82
2	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		33
3	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		14
4	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		12
5	Spanish (es) La engañada		9
6	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		8
7	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		7
8	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		0

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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 "The Black Swan (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		0
2	German (de) Die Betrogene		0
3	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		0
4	Spanish (es) La engañada		0
5	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		0
6	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		0
7	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		0
8	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		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 "The Black Swan (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Die Betrogene		79
2	English (en) The Black Swan (short story)		46
3	French (fr) Le Mirage (roman)		37
4	Italian (it) L'inganno (Thomas Mann)		35
5	Russian (ru) Обманутая (новелла)		24
6	Arabic (ar) البجعة السوداء (رواية)		23
7	Spanish (es) La engañada		1
8	Urdu (ur) دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic البجعة السوداء (رواية)
de	German Die Betrogene
en	English The Black Swan (short story)
es	Spanish La engañada
fr	French Le Mirage (roman)
it	Italian L'inganno (Thomas Mann)
ru	Russian Обманутая (новелла)
ur	Urdu دی بلیک سوان (شارٹ اسٹوری)

Best Rank

English: #217652 12.2010

Global: #310110 12.2010

Best Rank

English: #227832 02.2015

Global: #43336 05.2006

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