The Sentinel (short story)

The Sentinel - short story written by Arthur C. Clarke. This book is the 2895^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Sentinel (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 7 sections.

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 Sentinel (short story)”, its content was written by 110 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sentinel is on the 2895^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in English Wikipedia and cited 361 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1322 in January 2002
• Global: #1449 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52234 in March 2008
• Global: #68011 in March 2008

There are 10 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		26.2053
2	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		18.3535
3	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		15.3667
4	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		11.7234
5	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		10.8248
6	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		10.1753
7	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		8.582
8	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		5.2709
9	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		4.7255
10	Spanish (es) El centinela		3.5007

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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 Sentinel (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		1 219 450
2	Spanish (es) El centinela		298 547
3	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		149 821
4	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		72 270
5	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		62 289
6	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		52 303
7	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		16 934
8	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		10 727
9	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		3 826
10	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		2 056

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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 Sentinel (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		4 631
2	Spanish (es) El centinela		689
3	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		575
4	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		550
5	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		414
6	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		250
7	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		235
8	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		47
9	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		40
10	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		21

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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 Sentinel (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		110
2	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		40
3	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		31
4	Spanish (es) El centinela		27
5	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		16
6	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		10
7	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		10
8	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		8
9	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		7
10	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		6

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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 Sentinel (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		0
2	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		0
3	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		0
4	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		0
5	Spanish (es) El centinela		0
6	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		0
7	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		0
8	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		0
9	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		0
10	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		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 Sentinel (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Czech (cs) Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)		79
2	English (en) The Sentinel (short story)		63
3	Portuguese (pt) The Sentinel		57
4	Russian (ru) Часовой (рассказ)		45
5	Italian (it) La sentinella (racconto)		27
6	Spanish (es) El centinela		25
7	Catalan (ca) The Sentinel		20
8	French (fr) La Sentinelle (Clarke)		19
9	German (de) The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)		17
10	Persian (fa) نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)		9

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan The Sentinel
cs	Czech Hlídka (Arthur C. Clarke)
de	German The Sentinel (Kurzgeschichte)
en	English The Sentinel (short story)
es	Spanish El centinela
fa	Persian نگهبان (داستان کوتاه)
fr	French La Sentinelle (Clarke)
it	Italian La sentinella (racconto)
pt	Portuguese The Sentinel
ru	Russian Часовой (рассказ)

Best Rank

English: #52234 03.2008

Global: #68011 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #1322 01.2002

Global: #1449 01.2002

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