The Moving Finger (short story)

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The Moving Finger (short story)

Quality:

The Moving Finger - short story by Stephen King. Article “The Moving Finger (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 12.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.66 points.

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

Since the creation of article “The Moving Finger (short story)”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 54 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in English Wikipedia and cited 454 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #66348 in May 2011
  • Global: #170636 in July 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #332078 in March 2008
  • Global: #523185 in September 2017

There are 4 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
1Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
26.116
2English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
12.5514
3French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
9.3413
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
9.1077
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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 Moving Finger (short story)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
220 749
2Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
36 970
3French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
4 587
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
2 170
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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 Moving Finger (short story)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
862
2Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
86
3French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
34
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
24
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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 Moving Finger (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
44
2Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
4
3French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
3
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
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 Moving Finger (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
0
2French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
0
3Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
0
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
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 Moving Finger (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Le Doigt télescopique
244
2Russian (ru)
Палец (рассказ)
158
3English (en)
The Moving Finger (short story)
32
4Chinese (zh)
神秘手指
20
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
The Moving Finger (short story)
frFrench
Le Doigt télescopique
ruRussian
Палец (рассказ)
zhChinese
神秘手指

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#332078
03.2008
Global:
#523185
09.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#66348
05.2011
Global:
#170636
07.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Moving Finger from Wikipedia articles about Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Stephen King short fiction bibliography, List of adaptations of works by Stephen King, List of Monsters episodes and I Lost on Jeopardy. Whereas reading the article about The Moving Finger people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Monsters, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Tom Noonan, Jeopardy! and Eve Beglarian.

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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