The Sting

Quality:

The Sting - 1973 film by George Roy Hill. This film is the 1607^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 240^th most popular film in Basque Wikipedia. Article “The Sting” in Basque Wikipedia has 5.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Basque Wikipedia:

The 240^th most popular in films in Basque Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1607^th most popular in films.

Since the creation of article “The Sting”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 1625 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sting is on the 240^th place in local ranking of films in Basque Wikipedia and on the 1607^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 107 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 5782 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #298 in March 2014
• Global: #2566 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #11311 in September 2008
• Global: #8611 in October 2024

There are 36 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) The Sting		61.0408
2	Ukrainian (uk) Афера (фільм, 1973)		45.9187
3	Greek (el) Το Κεντρί		42.4917
4	Persian (fa) نیش (فیلم ۱۹۷۳)		38.1492
5	Dutch (nl) The Sting (1973)		30.431
6	Japanese (ja) スティング (映画)		25.8495
7	Tamil (ta) த ஸ்டிங் (திரைப்படம்)		25.7505
8	Turkish (tr) Belalılar (film, 1973)		23.6369
9	Catalan (ca) El cop		23.3512
10	Polish (pl) Żądło (film)		22.658

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sting		6 778 288
2	Japanese (ja) スティング (映画)		1 566 199
3	German (de) Der Clou		1 226 355
4	Spanish (es) El golpe (película de 1973)		835 685
5	Italian (it) La stangata		825 644
6	Russian (ru) Афера (фильм, 1973)		683 323
7	French (fr) L'Arnaque		558 659
8	Polish (pl) Żądło (film)		216 639
9	Swedish (sv) Blåsningen		137 276
10	Chinese (zh) 老千計狀元才		136 629

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 Sting		40 099
2	Japanese (ja) スティング (映画)		4 613
3	German (de) Der Clou		3 369
4	Italian (it) La stangata		2 309
5	French (fr) L'Arnaque		2 303
6	Russian (ru) Афера (фильм, 1973)		2 108
7	Spanish (es) El golpe (película de 1973)		2 058
8	Chinese (zh) 老千計狀元才		561
9	Polish (pl) Żądło (film)		448
10	Persian (fa) نیش (فیلم ۱۹۷۳)		355

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sting		456
2	German (de) Der Clou		143
3	French (fr) L'Arnaque		123
4	Russian (ru) Афера (фильм, 1973)		93
5	Japanese (ja) スティング (映画)		92
6	Italian (it) La stangata		91
7	Spanish (es) El golpe (película de 1973)		72
8	Dutch (nl) The Sting (1973)		70
9	Hebrew (he) העוקץ (סרט)		40
10	Norwegian (no) Stikket		37

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 Sting		2
2	Hebrew (he) העוקץ (סרט)		1
3	Italian (it) La stangata		1
4	Arabic (ar) اللدغة (فيلم)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Ужилването		0
6	Catalan (ca) El cop		0
7	Czech (cs) Podraz		0
8	Danish (da) Sidste stik		0
9	German (de) Der Clou		0
10	Greek (el) Το Κεντρί		0

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

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