The White Man's Burden

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The White Man's Burden - poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. This book is the 429^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 46^th most popular book in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “The White Man's Burden” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 39.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 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:

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The 4292^nd most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 8867^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 46^th most popular in books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 429^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 4431^st most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The White Man's Burden”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (8867^th place) and edited by 1036 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The White Man's Burden is on the 46^th place in local ranking of books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 429^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 825 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #35 in October 2018
• Global: #1098 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #405 in November 2021
• Global: #18188 in March 2012

There are 22 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) The White Man's Burden		61.4985
2	Chinese (zh) 白人的负担		43.7981
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) The White Man's Burden		39.7213
4	Spanish (es) La carga del hombre blanco		37.616
5	German (de) The White Man’s Burden		32.7675
6	Arabic (ar) عبء الرجل الأبيض		28.7423
7	Indonesian (id) The White Man's Burden		26.9722
8	French (fr) Le Fardeau de l'homme blanc		24.0456
9	Persian (fa) مسئولیت انسان سفید		22.4533
10	Portuguese (pt) O Fardo do Homem Branco		17.072

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The White Man's Burden		8 507 011
2	German (de) The White Man’s Burden		326 154
3	Italian (it) Il fardello dell'uomo bianco		324 754
4	Russian (ru) Бремя белого человека		311 553
5	French (fr) Le Fardeau de l'homme blanc		245 104
6	Spanish (es) La carga del hombre blanco		214 688
7	Portuguese (pt) O Fardo do Homem Branco		152 461
8	Chinese (zh) 白人的负担		134 780
9	Swedish (sv) Den vite mannens börda		98 552
10	Dutch (nl) The white man's burden		93 742

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 White Man's Burden		25 577
2	Russian (ru) Бремя белого человека		2 013
3	Italian (it) Il fardello dell'uomo bianco		1 494
4	German (de) The White Man’s Burden		875
5	French (fr) Le Fardeau de l'homme blanc		807
6	Spanish (es) La carga del hombre blanco		677
7	Chinese (zh) 白人的负担		512
8	Portuguese (pt) O Fardo do Homem Branco		504
9	Dutch (nl) The white man's burden		384
10	Finnish (fi) Valkoisen miehen taakka		173

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The White Man's Burden		554
2	German (de) The White Man’s Burden		75
3	Korean (ko) 백인의 짐		68
4	French (fr) Le Fardeau de l'homme blanc		62
5	Italian (it) Il fardello dell'uomo bianco		44
6	Russian (ru) Бремя белого человека		37
7	Norwegian (no) The White Man’s Burden		27
8	Spanish (es) La carga del hombre blanco		23
9	Finnish (fi) Valkoisen miehen taakka		21
10	Hebrew (he) משא האדם הלבן		21

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 White Man's Burden		4
2	Arabic (ar) عبء الرجل الأبيض		0
3	German (de) The White Man’s Burden		0
4	Spanish (es) La carga del hombre blanco		0
5	Persian (fa) مسئولیت انسان سفید		0
6	Finnish (fi) Valkoisen miehen taakka		0
7	French (fr) Le Fardeau de l'homme blanc		0
8	Hebrew (he) משא האדם הלבן		0
9	Hindi (hi) श्वेत जाति का भार		0
10	Indonesian (id) The White Man's Burden		0

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

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