The Time Machine

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The Time Machine - 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. This book is the 267^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 233^rd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Time Machine” in English Wikipedia has 55.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 51 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.13 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 233^rd most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 267^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Time Machine” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Time Machine”, its content was written by 717 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1866 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Time Machine is on the 233^rd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 267^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 513 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1927 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #411 in August 2001
• Global: #451 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7094 in August 2008
• Global: #9695 in September 2009

There are 39 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 Time Machine		55.1438
2	Catalan (ca) La màquina del temps (novel·la)		53.115
3	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		52.2996
4	Romanian (ro) Mașina timpului (roman)		36.7038
5	Serbian (sr) Времеплов (новела)		33.2364
6	Latin (la) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)		31.0166
7	Bulgarian (bg) Машината на времето		30.3967
8	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		27.8916
9	Turkish (tr) Zaman Makinesi		27.8498
10	Esperanto (eo) La tempo-maŝino		25.5608

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Time Machine		9 487 783
2	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		1 771 859
3	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		1 138 017
4	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		892 176
5	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		706 708
6	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		535 308
7	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		476 414
8	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		227 505
9	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		166 061
10	Arabic (ar) آلة الزمن (رواية)		161 580

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 Time Machine		30 450
2	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		3 415
3	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		3 137
4	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		2 476
5	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		2 450
6	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		1 955
7	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		1 384
8	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		707
9	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		628
10	Portuguese (pt) The Time Machine (romance)		610

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Time Machine		717
2	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		167
3	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		126
4	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		110
5	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		85
6	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		73
7	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		58
8	Dutch (nl) De Tijdmachine		51
9	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		49
10	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		38

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	Latin (la) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)		4
2	English (en) The Time Machine		1
3	Malay (ms) The Time Machine		1
4	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		1
5	Romanian (ro) Mașina timpului (roman)		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Машина часу (роман)		1
7	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		1
8	Arabic (ar) آلة الزمن (رواية)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Zaman maşını (roman)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Машината на времето		0

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

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