The Piece of String

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The Piece of String

Quality:

La Ficelle - 1883 short story by Guy de Maupassant. This book is the 4351st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Piece of String” in English Wikipedia has 8.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.46 points.

This article has the best quality in Italian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is French.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 4351st most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Piece of String”, its content was written by 22 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 102 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

La Ficelle is on the 4351st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 36 times in English Wikipedia and cited 48 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #39875 in October 2011
  • Global: #25522 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #513987 in March 2022
  • Global: #66422 in December 2019

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
1Italian (it)
Lo spago
24.6008
2French (fr)
La Ficelle
11.5575
3English (en)
The Piece of String
8.7206
4Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
7.5068
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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 Piece of String" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
La Ficelle
1 025 337
2Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
113 419
3English (en)
The Piece of String
108 860
4Italian (it)
Lo spago
3 008
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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 Piece of String" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
La Ficelle
377
2English (en)
The Piece of String
343
3Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
41
4Italian (it)
Lo spago
25
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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 Piece of String" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
La Ficelle
60
2English (en)
The Piece of String
22
3Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
12
4Italian (it)
Lo spago
8
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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 Piece of String" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
0
2English (en)
The Piece of String
0
3French (fr)
La Ficelle
0
4Italian (it)
Lo spago
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 Piece of String" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Piece of String
36
2French (fr)
La Ficelle
7
3Italian (it)
Lo spago
4
4Arabic (ar)
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قطعة الخيط (قصة قصيرة)
enEnglish
The Piece of String
frFrench
La Ficelle
itItalian
Lo spago

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#513987
03.2022
Global:
#66422
12.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#39875
10.2011
Global:
#25522
12.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on La Ficelle from Wikipedia articles about List of Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Wikipedia article, Guy de Maupassant bibliography, Wikipedia article and Guy de Maupassant. Whereas reading the article about La Ficelle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Guy de Maupassant, Wikipedia article, Goderville, Le Gaulois and Short story.

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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