The Player of Games

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The Player of Games

Quality:

The Player of Games - 1988 novel by Iain M. Banks. This book is the 4791st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Player of Games” in English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 4791st most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Player of Games” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Player of Games”, its content was written by 118 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Player of Games is on the 4791st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 55 times in English Wikipedia and cited 166 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5856 in August 2002
  • Global: #2132 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #69253 in December 2021
  • Global: #126455 in December 2021

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
26.5944
2English (en)
The Player of Games
24.2181
3Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
23.4708
4French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
14.1625
5Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
14.0178
6German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
13.4881
7Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
11.8755
8Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
9.3749
9Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
7.8144
10Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
6.1228
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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 Player of Games" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Player of Games
958 335
2German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
52 701
3French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
40 759
4Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
29 731
5Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
17 274
6Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
16 655
7Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
6 854
8Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
2 161
9Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
535
10Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
493
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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 Player of Games" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Player of Games
6 097
2Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
339
3French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
226
4German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
172
5Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
106
6Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
105
7Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
40
8Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
28
9Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
18
10Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
9
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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 Player of Games" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Player of Games
118
2German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
50
3French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
32
4Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
31
5Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
17
6Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
14
7Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
7
8Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
6
9Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
3
10Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
1
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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 Player of Games" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Player of Games
2
2Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
1
3Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
0
4German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
0
5French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
0
6Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
0
7Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
0
8Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
0
9Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
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 Player of Games" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Player of Games
55
2French (fr)
L'Homme des jeux
23
3German (de)
Das Spiel Azad
20
4Italian (it)
L'impero di Azad
20
5Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul total
13
6Russian (ru)
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
12
7Ukrainian (uk)
Гравець ігор
9
8Spanish (es)
El jugador (Iain Banks)
8
9Hungarian (hu)
A játékmester
5
10Arabic (ar)
لاعب الألعاب
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لاعب الألعاب
deGerman
Das Spiel Azad
enEnglish
The Player of Games
esSpanish
El jugador (Iain Banks)
frFrench
L'Homme des jeux
huHungarian
A játékmester
itItalian
L'impero di Azad
roRomanian
Jucătorul total
ruRussian
Игрок (роман Бэнкса)
ukUkrainian
Гравець ігор

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#69253
12.2021
Global:
#126455
12.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5856
08.2002
Global:
#2132
08.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Player of Games from Wikipedia articles about Culture series, Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas, The Culture and Use of Weapons. Whereas reading the article about The Player of Games people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Culture series, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Iain Banks and The Culture.

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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