The Balcony

The Balcony - play written by Jean Genet. This book is the 9129^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Balcony” in English Wikipedia has 78.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 112 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Balcony”, its content was written by 80 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Balcony is on the 9129^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 308 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26021 in March 2005
• Global: #70739 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #222241 in July 2011
• Global: #333809 in April 2009

There are 8 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 Balcony		78.8827
2	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		25.9748
3	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		16.2706
4	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		15.0471
5	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		11.7167
6	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		10.1721
7	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		5.2587
8	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		4.6977

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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 Balcony" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Balcony		414 513
2	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		65 625
3	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		37 203
4	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		22 447
5	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		6 761
6	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		1 245
7	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		399
8	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		148

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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 Balcony" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Balcony		1 613
2	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		182
3	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		143
4	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		64
5	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		39
6	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		15
7	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		5
8	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		5

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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 Balcony" 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 Balcony		80
2	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		30
3	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		16
4	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		12
5	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		4
6	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		3
7	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		2
8	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		1

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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 Balcony" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		0
2	English (en) The Balcony		0
3	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		0
4	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		0
5	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		0
6	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		0
7	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		0
8	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		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 Balcony" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)		113
2	English (en) The Balcony		108
3	Spanish (es) El balcón (obra de teatro)		32
4	Turkish (tr) Balkon (oyun)		23
5	Italian (it) Il balcone (opera teatrale)		17
6	Persian (fa) بالکن (نمایشنامه)		8
7	Catalan (ca) El balcó (obra de teatre)		6
8	Korean (ko) 발코니 (희곡)		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan El balcó (obra de teatre)
en	English The Balcony
es	Spanish El balcón (obra de teatro)
fa	Persian بالکن (نمایشنامه)
fr	French Le Balcon (pièce de théâtre)
it	Italian Il balcone (opera teatrale)
ko	Korean 발코니 (희곡)
tr	Turkish Balkon (oyun)

Best Rank

English: #222241 07.2011

Global: #333809 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #26021 03.2005

Global: #70739 03.2005

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