What Is Literature

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Quality:

What Is Literature? - Essay by Sartre. This book is the 4012th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “What Is Literature?” in English Wikipedia has 20.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 4012th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “What Is Literature?”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 106 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

What Is Literature? is on the 4012th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in English Wikipedia and cited 117 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #61046 in June 2014
  • Global: #110202 in September 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #16553 in June 2013
  • Global: #33746 in June 2013

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
1Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
28.0043
2French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
27.5807
3English (en)
What Is Literature?
20.7434
4Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
11.5361
5Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
2.0059
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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 Literature?" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
700 806
2English (en)
What Is Literature?
639 763
3Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
14 143
4Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
3 396
5Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
1 840
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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 Literature?" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
What Is Literature?
883
2French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
785
3Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
53
4Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
25
5Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
11
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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 Literature?" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
What Is Literature?
44
2French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
41
3Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
10
4Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
9
5Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
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 Literature?" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
What Is Literature?
0
2Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
0
3French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
0
4Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
0
5Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
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 Literature?" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
59
2Persian (fa)
ادبیات چیست؟
32
3English (en)
What Is Literature?
14
4Korean (ko)
문학이란 무엇인가?
8
5Dutch (nl)
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?
4
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
What Is Literature?
faPersian
ادبیات چیست؟
frFrench
Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
koKorean
문학이란 무엇인가?
nlDutch
Qu'est-ce que la littérature?

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#16553
06.2013
Global:
#33746
06.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#61046
06.2014
Global:
#110202
09.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on What Is Literature? from Wikipedia articles about Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Literature, Committed literature and Nausea. Whereas reading the article about What Is Literature? people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Jean-Paul Sartre, Wikipedia article, Committed literature, Situations III and Essay.

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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