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 74^th most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “Moby-Dick” in French Wikipedia has 39.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.08 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 4532^nd most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 5537^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 74^th most popular in books in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3288^th most popular in all topics.

The 4440^th most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 4561^st most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 8994^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4722^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Moby-Dick” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8994^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Moby-Dick”, its content was written by 275 registered users of French Wikipedia (5537^th place) and edited by 3744 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4440^th place).

Moby-Dick is on the 74^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 398 times in French Wikipedia and cited 4436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1025 in October 2012
• Global: #82 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #419 in December 2015
• Global: #130 in December 2015

There are 48 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) Moby-Dick		96.7854
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		70.2974
3	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		68.2736
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Moby Dick		59.3939
5	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		47.9335
6	Persian (fa) موبی دیک		46.8848
7	Catalan (ca) Moby Dick		46.1113
8	Italian (it) Moby Dick		43.0527
9	French (fr) Moby-Dick		39.5331
10	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		39.3752

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moby-Dick		23 561 616
2	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		4 079 027
3	German (de) Moby-Dick		3 900 789
4	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		3 455 034
5	French (fr) Moby-Dick		2 733 639
6	Italian (it) Moby Dick		2 609 540
7	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		2 365 773
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		1 841 734
9	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		958 139
10	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		837 304

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		87 483
2	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		12 304
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		12 179
4	German (de) Moby-Dick		11 523
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		10 438
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		8 843
7	Italian (it) Moby Dick		7 691
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		4 251
9	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		4 014
10	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		3 494

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		1 431
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		331
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		275
4	Italian (it) Moby Dick		245
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		167
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		116
7	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		114
8	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		112
9	Hebrew (he) מובי דיק		93
10	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		70

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	German (de) Moby-Dick		4
2	English (en) Moby-Dick		3
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		3
4	Korean (ko) 모비딕		2
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		1
6	Hebrew (he) מובי דיק		1
7	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		1
9	Romanian (ro) Moby Dick		1
10	Arabic (ar) موبي ديك		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