I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. This book is the 862^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in Dutch Wikipedia has 2.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is on the 862^nd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 270 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #1141 in April 2020
• Global: #10513 in April 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #44322 in June 2020
• Global: #4721 in May 2014

There are 13 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) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		100
2	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		92.7273
3	Arabic (ar) أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس		86.197
4	Indonesian (id) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		36.0143
5	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		27.2994
6	Tamil (ta) கூண்டுப் பறவை இசைக்கும் கானம் காரணம் தெரியும் எனக்கு		24.552
7	Serbian (sr) Знам зашто птица у кавезу пева		18.7575
8	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		15.387
9	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		11.7791
10	Chinese (zh) 我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱		11.2812

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

The most popular language versions of the article "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		6 142 990
2	French (fr) Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage		126 993
3	Arabic (ar) أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس		69 728
4	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		49 704
5	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		19 808
6	Dutch (nl) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		13 299
7	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		11 043
8	Indonesian (id) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		6 772
9	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		3 110
10	Swedish (sv) Jag vet varför burfågeln sjunger		2 374

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		12 762
2	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		3 864
3	French (fr) Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage		526
4	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		231
5	Dutch (nl) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		123
6	Chinese (zh) 我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱		75
7	Swedish (sv) Jag vet varför burfågeln sjunger		61
8	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		38
9	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		31
10	Serbian (sr) Знам зашто птица у кавезу пева		26

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

Language versions of the article "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		285
2	Arabic (ar) أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس		34
3	French (fr) Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage		22
4	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		20
5	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		10
6	Dutch (nl) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		7
7	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		5
8	Serbian (sr) Знам зашто птица у кавезу пева		5
9	Tamil (ta) கூண்டுப் பறவை இசைக்கும் கானம் காரணம் தெரியும் எனக்கு		4
10	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		2

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

Language versions of the article "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس		2
2	English (en) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		1
3	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		1
4	Serbian (sr) Знам зашто птица у кавезу пева		1
5	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		0
6	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		0
7	French (fr) Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage		0
8	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		0
9	Indonesian (id) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		0
10	Dutch (nl) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		0

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

Language versions of the article "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		170
2	Arabic (ar) أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس		18
3	Indonesian (id) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		17
4	Portuguese (pt) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		17
5	French (fr) Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage		13
6	Persian (fa) می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند		12
7	Spanish (es) Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado		11
8	Dutch (nl) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		3
9	Chinese (zh) 我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱		3
10	Hebrew (he) ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أعرف لماذا يغرد الطائر الحبيس
en	English I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
es	Spanish Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado
fa	Persian می‌دانم چرا پرنده در قفس می‌خواند
fr	French Je sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage
he	Hebrew ידעתי למה הציפור הכלואה שרה
id	Indonesian I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
nl	Dutch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
pt	Portuguese I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
sr	Serbian Знам зашто птица у кавезу пева
sv	Swedish Jag vet varför burfågeln sjunger
ta	Tamil கூண்டுப் பறவை இசைக்கும் கானம் காரணம் தெரியும் எனக்கு
zh	Chinese 我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱

Best Rank

Dutch: #44322 06.2020

Global: #4721 05.2014

Best Rank

Dutch: #1141 04.2020

Global: #10513 04.2009

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