The Time Machine

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The Time Machine - 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. This book is the 268^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 232^nd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Time Machine” in English Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 66 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.38 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 232^nd most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 268^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7726^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Time Machine” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (7726^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Time Machine”, its content was written by 747 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Time Machine is on the 232^nd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 268^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 469 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1906 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #480 in August 2001
• Global: #521 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7161 in August 2008
• Global: #9743 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, 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 Time Machine		66.4065
2	Catalan (ca) La màquina del temps (novel·la)		53.2856
3	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		52.0816
4	Romanian (ro) Mașina timpului (roman)		36.6483
5	Ukrainian (uk) Машина часу (роман)		33.4386
6	Serbian (sr) Времеплов (новела)		33.1478
7	Latin (la) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)		31.1784
8	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		30.3767
9	Bulgarian (bg) Машината на времето		28.0354
10	Turkish (tr) Zaman Makinesi		27.9139

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Time Machine		9 876 244
2	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		1 809 958
3	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		1 182 032
4	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		939 525
5	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		733 606
6	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		557 673
7	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		497 758
8	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		236 380
9	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		173 675
10	Arabic (ar) آلة الزمن (رواية)		164 287

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		30 899
2	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		2 626
3	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		2 619
4	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		2 036
5	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		1 918
6	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		1 734
7	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		1 608
8	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		696
9	Chinese (zh) 時間機器 (小說)		497
10	Portuguese (pt) The Time Machine (romance)		443

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		747
2	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		169
3	French (fr) La Machine à explorer le temps		128
4	Spanish (es) La máquina del tiempo		112
5	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		86
6	Russian (ru) Машина времени (роман)		76
7	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		63
8	Dutch (nl) De Tijdmachine		51
9	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		51
10	Ukrainian (uk) Машина часу (роман)		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	English (en) The Time Machine		9
2	Polish (pl) Wehikuł czasu (powieść)		2
3	Arabic (ar) آلة الزمن (رواية)		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Zaman maşını (roman)		1
5	German (de) Die Zeitmaschine		1
6	Persian (fa) ماشین زمان		1
7	Hebrew (he) מכונת הזמן (ספר)		1
8	Italian (it) La macchina del tempo (romanzo)		1
9	Japanese (ja) タイム・マシン (小説)		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cỗ máy thời gian		1

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

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