The Thing

Quality:

The Thing - 1982 film directed by John Carpenter. This film is the 549^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 304^th most popular film in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “The Thing” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 3 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 304^th most popular in films in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9746^th most popular in all topics.

The 549^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 6645^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6277^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5751^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Thing”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 2471 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Thing is on the 304^th place in local ranking of films in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 549^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 2529 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #34 in September 2022
• Global: #198 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #3984 in September 2022
• Global: #948 in October 2011

There are 43 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) The Thing (1982 film)		100
2	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		100
3	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		100
4	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		100
5	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		92.6316
6	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		84.1233
7	Greek (el) The Thing		58.5837
8	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		55.2681
9	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		42.7754
10	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		38.5988

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Thing (1982 film)		16 591 056
2	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		2 549 142
3	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		2 044 746
4	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		1 498 735
5	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		1 476 716
6	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		1 466 013
7	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		1 252 975
8	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		452 638
9	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		337 966
10	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		172 643

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 Thing (1982 film)		86 839
2	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		10 431
3	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		7 775
4	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		5 737
5	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		5 553
6	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		5 346
7	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		4 632
8	Chinese (zh) 突變第三型		2 686
9	Portuguese (pt) The Thing (1982)		1 357
10	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		1 214

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Thing (1982 film)		892
2	French (fr) The Thing (film, 1982)		203
3	Italian (it) La cosa (film 1982)		174
4	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		170
5	Russian (ru) Нечто (фильм, 1982)		164
6	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		105
7	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		98
8	Dutch (nl) The Thing		61
9	Polish (pl) Coś (film 1982)		61
10	Hungarian (hu) A dolog (film, 1982)		55

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 Thing (1982 film)		7
2	Ukrainian (uk) Щось (фільм, 1982)		4
3	Arabic (ar) الشيء (فلم 1982)		2
4	Persian (fa) موجود (فیلم ۱۹۸۲)		2
5	Japanese (ja) 遊星からの物体X		2
6	Romanian (ro) Creatura (film din 1982)		2
7	Czech (cs) Věc (film, 1982)		1
8	German (de) Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (1982)		1
9	Spanish (es) The Thing (película de 1982)		1
10	Basque (eu) The Thing (1982ko filma)		1

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

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