The Order of Things

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The Order of Things

Quality:

The Order of Things - essay by Michel Foucault. This book is the 2788th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Order of Things” in English Wikipedia has 33.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2788th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Order of Things”, its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Order of Things is on the 2788th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #66332 in October 2014
  • Global: #65265 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #160493 in February 2015
  • Global: #145153 in April 2015

There are 16 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)
Le parole e le cose
39.2466
2English (en)
The Order of Things
33.4548
3Chinese (zh)
词与物
31.5884
4Portuguese (pt)
As Palavras e as Coisas
30.8996
5French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
29.1937
6German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
29.1516
7Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
25.2812
8Swedish (sv)
Les mots et les choses
22.4478
9Vietnamese (vi)
Trật tự của sự vật
17.3537
10Catalan (ca)
Les paraules i les coses
16.078
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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 Order of Things" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Order of Things
880 454
2French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
392 092
3Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
219 956
4German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
193 785
5Italian (it)
Le parole e le cose
112 631
6Chinese (zh)
词与物
49 994
7Portuguese (pt)
As Palavras e as Coisas
29 192
8Arabic (ar)
الكلمات والأشياء
27 115
9Dutch (nl)
Les mots et les choses
25 274
10Korean (ko)
말과 사물
10 729
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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 Order of Things" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Order of Things
3 913
2French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
1 148
3Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
679
4German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
639
5Italian (it)
Le parole e le cose
552
6Chinese (zh)
词与物
382
7Portuguese (pt)
As Palavras e as Coisas
354
8Korean (ko)
말과 사물
84
9Dutch (nl)
Les mots et les choses
72
10Persian (fa)
الفاظ و اشیا
59
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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 Order of Things" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
101
2English (en)
The Order of Things
60
3German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
51
4Italian (it)
Le parole e le cose
26
5Dutch (nl)
Les mots et les choses
14
6Portuguese (pt)
As Palavras e as Coisas
13
7Arabic (ar)
الكلمات والأشياء
12
8Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
10
9Persian (fa)
الفاظ و اشیا
9
10Vietnamese (vi)
Trật tự của sự vật
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 Order of Things" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
الكلمات والأشياء
0
2Catalan (ca)
Les paraules i les coses
0
3German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
0
4English (en)
The Order of Things
0
5Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
0
6Estonian (et)
Sõnad ja asjad
0
7Persian (fa)
الفاظ و اشیا
0
8Finnish (fi)
Sanat ja asiat
0
9French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
0
10Italian (it)
Le parole e le cose
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 Order of Things" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Order of Things
100
2Korean (ko)
말과 사물
69
3French (fr)
Les Mots et les Choses
52
4Persian (fa)
الفاظ و اشیا
40
5German (de)
Die Ordnung der Dinge
28
6Italian (it)
Le parole e le cose
18
7Spanish (es)
Las palabras y las cosas
14
8Portuguese (pt)
As Palavras e as Coisas
14
9Chinese (zh)
词与物
14
10Dutch (nl)
Les mots et les choses
13
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الكلمات والأشياء
caCatalan
Les paraules i les coses
deGerman
Die Ordnung der Dinge
enEnglish
The Order of Things
esSpanish
Las palabras y las cosas
etEstonian
Sõnad ja asjad
faPersian
الفاظ و اشیا
fiFinnish
Sanat ja asiat
frFrench
Les Mots et les Choses
itItalian
Le parole e le cose
koKorean
말과 사물
nlDutch
Les mots et les choses
ptPortuguese
As Palavras e as Coisas
svSwedish
Les mots et les choses
viVietnamese
Trật tự của sự vật
zhChinese
词与物

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#160493
02.2015
Global:
#145153
04.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#66332
10.2014
Global:
#65265
02.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Order of Things from Wikipedia articles about Michel Foucault, Le Mondes 100 Books of the Century, Heterotopia, The Archaeology of Knowledge and Michel Foucault bibliography. Whereas reading the article about The Order of Things people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Michel Foucault, Las Meninas, Episteme, The Archaeology of Knowledge and Epistemology.

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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