The Strain

Quality:

The Strain - 2009 novel by Guillermo del Toro. This book is the 946^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 650^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Strain” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.42 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 650^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 946^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Strain”, its content was written by 125 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 232 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Strain is on the 650^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 946^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 79 times in English Wikipedia and cited 265 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2658 in September 2014
• Global: #6673 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #343 in July 2014
• Global: #1298 in July 2014

There are 9 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	English (en) The Strain		30.7446
2	Russian (ru) Штамм (роман)		28.3089
3	German (de) Die Saat		13.2872
4	Romanian (ro) The Strain		13.0547
5	French (fr) La Lignée		13.0387
6	Spanish (es) Nocturna (novela)		12.5382
7	Italian (it) La progenie		10.7552
8	Portuguese (pt) The Strain		6.0204
9	Japanese (ja) ザ・ストレイン		4.7421

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Strain		4 252 402
2	Spanish (es) Nocturna (novela)		422 231
3	Russian (ru) Штамм (роман)		307 082
4	German (de) Die Saat		191 790
5	Japanese (ja) ザ・ストレイン		129 148
6	French (fr) La Lignée		101 728
7	Portuguese (pt) The Strain		93 050
8	Italian (it) La progenie		48 917
9	Romanian (ro) The Strain		2 337

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Strain		10 360
2	Russian (ru) Штамм (роман)		1 014
3	Spanish (es) Nocturna (novela)		670
4	German (de) Die Saat		392
5	Italian (it) La progenie		230
6	French (fr) La Lignée		207
7	Portuguese (pt) The Strain		196
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・ストレイン		114
9	Romanian (ro) The Strain		12

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Strain		125
2	German (de) Die Saat		24
3	French (fr) La Lignée		19
4	Spanish (es) Nocturna (novela)		17
5	Russian (ru) Штамм (роман)		15
6	Italian (it) La progenie		13
7	Japanese (ja) ザ・ストレイン		9
8	Portuguese (pt) The Strain		9
9	Romanian (ro) The Strain		1

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) The Strain		1
2	German (de) Die Saat		0
3	English (en) The Strain		0
4	Spanish (es) Nocturna (novela)		0
5	French (fr) La Lignée		0
6	Italian (it) La progenie		0
7	Japanese (ja) ザ・ストレイン		0
8	Portuguese (pt) The Strain		0
9	Russian (ru) Штамм (роман)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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