The Dark Forest

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The Dark Forest

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The Dark Forest - 2008 science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, sequel to The Three-Body Problem. This book is the 913th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 799th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Dark Forest” in English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 799th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 913th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Dark Forest” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Dark Forest”, its content was written by 150 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 419 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Dark Forest is on the 799th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 913th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 71 times in English Wikipedia and cited 264 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #13147 in June 2023
  • Global: #6425 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #523 in March 2024
  • Global: #699 in March 2024

There are 18 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
1Chinese (zh)
三体II:黑暗森林
30.697
2English (en)
The Dark Forest
25.4252
3Ukrainian (uk)
Темний ліс (роман)
22.6226
4German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
22.3079
5Portuguese (pt)
A Floresta Sombria
20.1892
6Arabic (ar)
الغابة المظلمة
19.929
7Finnish (fi)
Synkkä metsä
19.2053
8Russian (ru)
Тёмный лес (роман)
19.1075
9Italian (it)
La materia del cosmo
18.7885
10French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
16.2964
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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 Dark Forest" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Dark Forest
3 568 174
2Russian (ru)
Тёмный лес (роман)
523 089
3Chinese (zh)
三体II:黑暗森林
516 779
4German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
275 315
5Spanish (es)
El bosque oscuro
243 545
6French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
226 752
7Japanese (ja)
三体II 黒暗森林
155 984
8Italian (it)
La materia del cosmo
136 795
9Polish (pl)
Ciemny las
66 567
10Vietnamese (vi)
Khu rừng đen tối
26 518
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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 Dark Forest" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Dark Forest
29 108
2Russian (ru)
Тёмный лес (роман)
5 758
3Japanese (ja)
三体II 黒暗森林
3 406
4French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
2 635
5Spanish (es)
El bosque oscuro
2 165
6Chinese (zh)
三体II:黑暗森林
2 088
7German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
1 975
8Italian (it)
La materia del cosmo
1 578
9Polish (pl)
Ciemny las
570
10Portuguese (pt)
A Floresta Sombria
501
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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 Dark Forest" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Dark Forest
150
2Chinese (zh)
三体II:黑暗森林
68
3French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
35
4German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
28
5Japanese (ja)
三体II 黒暗森林
26
6Polish (pl)
Ciemny las
22
7Russian (ru)
Тёмный лес (роман)
17
8Ukrainian (uk)
Темний ліс (роман)
16
9Italian (it)
La materia del cosmo
13
10Spanish (es)
El bosque oscuro
11
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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 Dark Forest" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Dark Forest
2
2German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
1
3Spanish (es)
El bosque oscuro
1
4Hungarian (hu)
A sötét erdő
1
5Indonesian (id)
Hutan Gelap
1
6Romanian (ro)
Pădurea întunecată
1
7Arabic (ar)
الغابة المظلمة
0
8Finnish (fi)
Synkkä metsä
0
9French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
0
10Italian (it)
La materia del cosmo
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 Dark Forest" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Dark Forest
71
2German (de)
Der dunkle Wald
50
3Chinese (zh)
三体II:黑暗森林
34
4French (fr)
La Forêt sombre
16
5Polish (pl)
Ciemny las
14
6Japanese (ja)
三体II 黒暗森林
11
7Russian (ru)
Тёмный лес (роман)
11
8Ukrainian (uk)
Темний ліс (роман)
10
9Spanish (es)
El bosque oscuro
9
10Vietnamese (vi)
Khu rừng đen tối
8
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الغابة المظلمة
deGerman
Der dunkle Wald
enEnglish
The Dark Forest
esSpanish
El bosque oscuro
fiFinnish
Synkkä metsä
frFrench
La Forêt sombre
huHungarian
A sötét erdő
idIndonesian
Hutan Gelap
itItalian
La materia del cosmo
jaJapanese
三体II 黒暗森林
koKorean
암흑의 숲
plPolish
Ciemny las
ptPortuguese
A Floresta Sombria
roRomanian
Pădurea întunecată
ruRussian
Тёмный лес (роман)
ukUkrainian
Темний ліс (роман)
viVietnamese
Khu rừng đen tối
zhChinese
三体II:黑暗森林

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#523
03.2024
Global:
#699
03.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13147
06.2023
Global:
#6425
03.2024

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Dark Forest from Wikipedia articles about The Three-Body Problem, Remembrance of Earths Past, Dark forest hypothesis, Deaths End and Liu Cixin. Whereas reading the article about The Dark Forest people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Deaths End, Dark forest hypothesis, The Three-Body Problem, Remembrance of Earths Past and Fermi paradox.

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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