The Myth of Sisyphus

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The Myth of Sisyphuz - philosophical essay by Albert Camus. This book is the 213^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 303^rd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "The Myth of Sisyphus" in English Wikipedia has 33.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 303^rd most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 213^th most popular in books.

In July 2024 the article "The Myth of Sisyphus" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "The Myth of Sisyphus", its content was written by 201 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 885 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Myth of Sisyphuz is on the 303^rd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 213^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 112 times in English Wikipedia and cited 641 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4074 in November 2002
• Global: #5142 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4333 in July 2011
• Global: #7179 in November 2013

There are 31 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Esperanto (eo) La Mito de Sizifo		55.229
2	Hebrew (he) המיתוס של סיזיפוס		45.5877
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sizif haqqında mif		34.6289
4	English (en) The Myth of Sisyphus		33.2613
5	Portuguese (pt) O Mito de Sísifo		29.1191
6	Chinese (zh) 西绪弗斯神话		25.573
7	Korean (ko) 시지프 신화		23.503
8	German (de) Der Mythos des Sisyphos		20.5536
9	Croatian (hr) Mit o Sizifu		20.3096
10	Polish (pl) Mit Syzyfa		19.6231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Myth of Sisyphus		6 389 798
2	Spanish (es) El mito de Sísifo		2 912 039
3	French (fr) Le Mythe de Sisyphe		2 385 777
4	Portuguese (pt) O Mito de Sísifo		900 781
5	German (de) Der Mythos des Sisyphos		670 810
6	Italian (it) Il mito di Sisifo		600 976
7	Russian (ru) Миф о Сизифе (эссе)		567 284
8	Chinese (zh) 西绪弗斯神话		354 289
9	Japanese (ja) シーシュポスの神話		295 689
10	Persian (fa) افسانه سیزیف		259 231

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 Myth of Sisyphus		37 276
2	Spanish (es) El mito de Sísifo		14 200
3	French (fr) Le Mythe de Sisyphe		10 058
4	Portuguese (pt) O Mito de Sísifo		4 736
5	Chinese (zh) 西绪弗斯神话		3 716
6	Italian (it) Il mito di Sisifo		3 596
7	German (de) Der Mythos des Sisyphos		3 385
8	Persian (fa) افسانه سیزیف		3 287
9	Russian (ru) Миф о Сизифе (эссе)		2 950
10	Japanese (ja) シーシュポスの神話		2 216

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Myth of Sisyphus		201
2	French (fr) Le Mythe de Sisyphe		136
3	German (de) Der Mythos des Sisyphos		82
4	Spanish (es) El mito de Sísifo		82
5	Italian (it) Il mito di Sisifo		54
6	Portuguese (pt) O Mito de Sísifo		31
7	Russian (ru) Миф о Сизифе (эссе)		29
8	Chinese (zh) 西绪弗斯神话		28
9	Hebrew (he) המיתוס של סיזיפוס		27
10	Croatian (hr) Mit o Sizifu		23

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	English (en) The Myth of Sisyphus		2
2	German (de) Der Mythos des Sisyphos		1
3	Italian (it) Il mito di Sisifo		1
4	Turkish (tr) Sisifos Söyleni		1
5	Arabic (ar) أسطورة سيزيف		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Sizif haqqında mif		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Митът за Сизиф		0
8	Catalan (ca) El mite de Sísif		0
9	Greek (el) Ο Μύθος του Σίσυφου		0
10	Esperanto (eo) La Mito de Sizifo		0

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

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