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 280^th most popular book in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Moby Dick” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 59.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

The 280^th most popular in books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) 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:

Global Wikipedia:

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

Since the creation of article “Moby Dick”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 3744 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4440^th place).

Moby-Dick is on the 280^th place in local ranking of books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 4436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #179 in July 2018
• Global: #82 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #4377 in April 2019
• 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