Unreliable narrator

Unreliable narrator - narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. Article “Unreliable narrator” in English Wikipedia has 44.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Unreliable narrator”, its content was written by 505 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 886 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 613 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1882 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1502 in April 2004
• Global: #8661 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35515 in October 2014
• Global: #45478 in October 2020

There are 21 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	Ukrainian (uk) Ненадійний наратор		66.874
2	Portuguese (pt) Narrador não confiável		54.6905
3	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		52.7973
4	Chinese (zh) 不可靠的敘事者		50.9822
5	Spanish (es) Narrador sospechoso		47.6613
6	English (en) Unreliable narrator		44.5621
7	Turkish (tr) Güvenilmez anlatıcı		43.1946
8	Azerbaijani (az) Etibarsız nağılçı		23.7927
9	Italian (it) Narratore inaffidabile		21.5412
10	Armenian (hy) Անվստահելի պատմիչ		21.2849

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Unreliable narrator" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unreliable narrator		4 061 608
2	Japanese (ja) 信頼できない語り手		1 203 647
3	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		466 491
4	Russian (ru) Ненадёжный рассказчик		241 468
5	Spanish (es) Narrador sospechoso		93 319
6	Chinese (zh) 不可靠的敘事者		65 823
7	Portuguese (pt) Narrador não confiável		56 707
8	French (fr) Narrateur non fiable		37 158
9	Dutch (nl) Onbetrouwbare verteller		34 201
10	Persian (fa) راوی غیرقابل اعتماد		31 471

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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 "Unreliable narrator" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unreliable narrator		14 872
2	Japanese (ja) 信頼できない語り手		5 419
3	Russian (ru) Ненадёжный рассказчик		2 860
4	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		2 484
5	Chinese (zh) 不可靠的敘事者		823
6	Spanish (es) Narrador sospechoso		637
7	Italian (it) Narratore inaffidabile		428
8	French (fr) Narrateur non fiable		380
9	Portuguese (pt) Narrador não confiável		255
10	Persian (fa) راوی غیرقابل اعتماد		165

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

Language versions of the article "Unreliable narrator" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Unreliable narrator		505
2	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		100
3	Japanese (ja) 信頼できない語り手		63
4	Russian (ru) Ненадёжный рассказчик		37
5	Dutch (nl) Onbetrouwbare verteller		28
6	Spanish (es) Narrador sospechoso		27
7	Chinese (zh) 不可靠的敘事者		23
8	Portuguese (pt) Narrador não confiável		18
9	French (fr) Narrateur non fiable		15
10	Italian (it) Narratore inaffidabile		14

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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 "Unreliable narrator" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Etibarsız nağılçı		1
3	Italian (it) Narratore inaffidabile		1
4	Arabic (ar) راو غير موثوق		0
5	Greek (el) Αναξιόπιστος αφηγητής		0
6	English (en) Unreliable narrator		0
7	Spanish (es) Narrador sospechoso		0
8	Persian (fa) راوی غیرقابل اعتماد		0
9	French (fr) Narrateur non fiable		0
10	Armenian (hy) Անվստահելի պատմիչ		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 "Unreliable narrator" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Unreliable narrator		613
2	Dutch (nl) Onbetrouwbare verteller		178
3	Japanese (ja) 信頼できない語り手		157
4	Persian (fa) راوی غیرقابل اعتماد		137
5	German (de) Unzuverlässiges Erzählen		115
6	Arabic (ar) راو غير موثوق		105
7	Korean (ko) 믿을 수 없는 화자		97
8	Portuguese (pt) Narrador não confiável		87
9	Turkish (tr) Güvenilmez anlatıcı		87
10	Chinese (zh) 不可靠的敘事者		78

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic راو غير موثوق
az	Azerbaijani Etibarsız nağılçı
de	German Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
el	Greek Αναξιόπιστος αφηγητής
en	English Unreliable narrator
es	Spanish Narrador sospechoso
fa	Persian راوی غیرقابل اعتماد
fr	French Narrateur non fiable
hy	Armenian Անվստահելի պատմիչ
id	Indonesian Pengisah lancung
it	Italian Narratore inaffidabile
ja	Japanese 信頼できない語り手
ko	Korean 믿을 수 없는 화자
nl	Dutch Onbetrouwbare verteller
pt	Portuguese Narrador não confiável
ru	Russian Ненадёжный рассказчик
simple	Simple English Unreliable narrator
th	Thai ผู้บรรยายเรื่องผู้ไม่น่าเชื่อถือ
tr	Turkish Güvenilmez anlatıcı
uk	Ukrainian Ненадійний наратор
zh	Chinese 不可靠的敘事者

Best Rank

English: #35515 10.2014

Global: #45478 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #1502 04.2004

Global: #8661 04.2004

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