The Soft Machine

The Soft Machine - novel by William S. Burroughs. This book is the 8078^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Soft Machine” in English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.24 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.

In June 2026 the article “The Soft Machine” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Soft Machine”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 94 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Soft Machine is on the 8078^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 81 times in English Wikipedia and cited 140 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #44003 in November 2003
• Global: #63998 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #220975 in January 2008
• Global: #350736 in January 2008

There are 6 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, 2026 (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 Soft Machine		23.5125
2	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		15.3486
3	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		12.0157
4	French (fr) La Machine molle		10.922
5	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		10.0618
6	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		6.5296

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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 Soft Machine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Soft Machine		556 762
2	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		69 355
3	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		38 839
4	French (fr) La Machine molle		16 553
5	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		1 003
6	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		12

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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 Soft Machine" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Soft Machine		2 200
2	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		228
3	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		177
4	French (fr) La Machine molle		125
5	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		19
6	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		0

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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 Soft Machine" 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 Soft Machine		57
2	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		14
3	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		10
4	French (fr) La Machine molle		9
5	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		3
6	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		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 Soft Machine" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Soft Machine		1
2	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		0
3	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		0
4	French (fr) La Machine molle		0
5	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		0
6	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		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 Soft Machine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Soft Machine		81
2	Czech (cs) Hebká mašinka		26
3	Italian (it) La macchina morbida		15
4	Russian (ru) Мягкая машина		12
5	French (fr) La Machine molle		6
6	Arabic (ar) الآلة اللينة (رواية)		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الآلة اللينة (رواية)
cs	Czech Hebká mašinka
en	English The Soft Machine
fr	French La Machine molle
it	Italian La macchina morbida
ru	Russian Мягкая машина

Best Rank

English: #220975 01.2008

Global: #350736 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #44003 11.2003

Global: #63998 11.2003

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