Walter Mitty

Quality:

Walter Mitty - protagonist of a James Thurber short story. Article “Walter Mitty” in English Wikipedia has 30.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.39 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 2025 the article “Walter Mitty” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Walter Mitty”, its content was written by 250 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 289 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in English Wikipedia and cited 119 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #510 in August 2003
• Global: #2641 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #276 in December 2013
• Global: #876 in December 2013

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, 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) Walter Mitty		30.5523
2	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ミティ		21.8712
3	French (fr) Walter Mitty		11.3782
4	Dutch (nl) Walter Mitty		0.6778
5	Swedish (sv) Walter Mitty		0.2748
6	Portuguese (pt) Walter Mitty		0.2077

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Mitty		4 459 634
2	Portuguese (pt) Walter Mitty		73 897
3	Dutch (nl) Walter Mitty		47 158
4	French (fr) Walter Mitty		21 755
5	Swedish (sv) Walter Mitty		20 957
6	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ミティ		9 803

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) Walter Mitty		13 972
2	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ミティ		147
3	Portuguese (pt) Walter Mitty		145
4	Dutch (nl) Walter Mitty		133
5	French (fr) Walter Mitty		108
6	Swedish (sv) Walter Mitty		15

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Walter Mitty		250
2	Dutch (nl) Walter Mitty		17
3	Swedish (sv) Walter Mitty		11
4	French (fr) Walter Mitty		6
5	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ミティ		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Walter Mitty		2

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) Walter Mitty		3
2	French (fr) Walter Mitty		0
3	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・ミティ		0
4	Dutch (nl) Walter Mitty		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Walter Mitty		0
6	Swedish (sv) Walter Mitty		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information