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What Is an Author? - lecture given by Michel Foucault. Article “What Is an Author?” in English Wikipedia has 10.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “What Is an Author?”, its content was written by 38 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 61 times in English Wikipedia and cited 84 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #116291 in June 2014
  • Global: #78477 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #328570 in April 2016
  • Global: #402493 in April 2015

There are 5 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
74.4412
2English (en)
What Is an Author?
10.0913
3Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
9.2424
4French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
8.4582
5Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
4.9099
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "What Is an Author?" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
What Is an Author?
282 158
2German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
110 454
3Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
21 120
4French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
4 614
5Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
351
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "What Is an Author?" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
What Is an Author?
1 045
2German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
232
3French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
113
4Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
34
5Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "What Is an Author?" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
52
2English (en)
What Is an Author?
38
3Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
20
4French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
6
5Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "What Is an Author?" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
0
2English (en)
What Is an Author?
0
3French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
0
4Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
0
5Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "What Is an Author?" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
What Is an Author?
61
2German (de)
Was ist ein Autor?
12
3Hebrew (he)
מהו מחבר?
10
4French (fr)
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
1
5Portuguese (pt)
O que é um autor?
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Was ist ein Autor?
enEnglish
What Is an Author?
frFrench
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur ?
heHebrew
מהו מחבר?
ptPortuguese
O que é um autor?

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#328570
04.2016
Global:
#402493
04.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#116291
06.2014
Global:
#78477
03.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on What Is an Author? from Wikipedia articles about The Death of the Author, Michel Foucault, Author function, Discipline and Punish and Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. Whereas reading the article about What Is an Author? people most often go to Wikipedia articles on The Death of the Author, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Wikipedia article and Société française de philosophie.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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