Moby-Dick

Quality:

Moby-Dick - novel by Herman Melville. This book is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 75^th most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “Moby-Dick” in French Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.23 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 4579^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 5406^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 75^th most popular in books in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3264^th most popular in all topics.

The 4397^th most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 7180^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4999^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Moby-Dick” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Moby-Dick”, its content was written by 285 registered users of French Wikipedia (5406^th place) and edited by 3812 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4397^th place).

Moby-Dick is on the 75^th place in local ranking of books in French Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 394 times in French Wikipedia and cited 4539 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1021 in October 2012
• Global: #83 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #420 in December 2015
• Global: #132 in December 2015

There are 49 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, 2026 (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) Moby-Dick		97.629
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		69.5556
3	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		68.6381
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Moby Dick		59.3939
5	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		47.6471
6	Persian (fa) موبی دیک		46.5271
7	Catalan (ca) Moby Dick		46.1931
8	Italian (it) Moby Dick		43.0109
9	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		42.6147
10	French (fr) Moby-Dick		42.3957

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moby-Dick		24 597 371
2	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		4 413 660
3	German (de) Moby-Dick		4 068 949
4	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		3 766 332
5	French (fr) Moby-Dick		2 853 865
6	Italian (it) Moby Dick		2 710 532
7	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		2 473 533
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		1 896 138
9	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		1 007 077
10	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		889 274

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) Moby-Dick		79 150
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		13 561
3	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		9 027
4	French (fr) Moby-Dick		8 321
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		7 605
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		7 551
7	Italian (it) Moby Dick		6 620
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		3 773
9	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		3 479
10	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		3 255

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moby-Dick		1 464
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		335
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		285
4	Italian (it) Moby Dick		249
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		171
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		121
7	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		120
8	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		113
9	Hebrew (he) מובי דיק		95
10	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		71

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) Moby-Dick		6
2	Serbian (sr) Моби Дик		4
3	Swedish (sv) Moby Dick		2
4	Arabic (ar) موبي ديك		1
5	Basque (eu) Moby-Dick		1
6	French (fr) Moby-Dick		1
7	Italian (it) Moby Dick		1
8	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		1
9	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		1
10	Belarusian (be) Мобі Дзік		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information