Svarthund

Black dog - mythical creature of British folklore. Article “Svarthund” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Svarthund”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 611 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1380 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #10164 in July 2011
• Global: #22128 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #20277 in February 2019
• Global: #44644 in August 2019

There are 19 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) Black dog (folklore)		88.5714
2	Norwegian (no) Svarthund		38.1412
3	Polish (pl) Czarny pies (folklor)		33.5281
4	Estonian (et) Must koer		30.4354
5	Korean (ko) 검둥개		25.2808
6	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		24.0724
7	Arabic (ar) الكلب الأسود (تراث شعبي)		23.0735
8	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		20.8075
9	Lithuanian (lt) Juodasis šuo		18.8676
10	Japanese (ja) ブラックドッグ (亡霊)		18.4866

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Svarthund" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black dog (folklore)		3 733 243
2	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		705 090
3	Japanese (ja) ブラックドッグ (亡霊)		452 899
4	French (fr) Chien noir		214 830
5	Italian (it) Cane nero		191 494
6	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		183 774
7	Russian (ru) Чёрные псы (призраки)		129 664
8	Chinese (zh) 黑犬		77 619
9	Finnish (fi) Musta koira		30 576
10	Vietnamese (vi) Con chó ma		18 351

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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 "Svarthund" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black dog (folklore)		13 850
2	Japanese (ja) ブラックドッグ (亡霊)		2 052
3	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		1 755
4	Russian (ru) Чёрные псы (призраки)		1 169
5	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		517
6	French (fr) Chien noir		517
7	Italian (it) Cane nero		411
8	Chinese (zh) 黑犬		327
9	Vietnamese (vi) Con chó ma		269
10	Polish (pl) Czarny pies (folklor)		124

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

Language versions of the article "Svarthund" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black dog (folklore)		307
2	French (fr) Chien noir		68
3	Italian (it) Cane nero		53
4	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		50
5	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		30
6	Norwegian (no) Svarthund		18
7	Japanese (ja) ブラックドッグ (亡霊)		14
8	Chinese (zh) 黑犬		14
9	Russian (ru) Чёрные псы (призраки)		13
10	Finnish (fi) Musta koira		10

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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 "Svarthund" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black dog (folklore)		3
2	Arabic (ar) الكلب الأسود (تراث شعبي)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Gos negre (fantasma)		0
4	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		0
5	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		0
6	Estonian (et) Must koer		0
7	Basque (eu) Txakur beltza (mamua)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Musta koira		0
9	French (fr) Chien noir		0
10	Italian (it) Cane nero		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 "Svarthund" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Black dog (folklore)		687
2	Chinese (zh) 黑犬		257
3	French (fr) Chien noir		230
4	German (de) Schwarzer Hund		34
5	Japanese (ja) ブラックドッグ (亡霊)		33
6	Korean (ko) 검둥개		33
7	Italian (it) Cane nero		32
8	Russian (ru) Чёрные псы (призраки)		23
9	Spanish (es) Perro negro (fantasma)		18
10	Catalan (ca) Gos negre (fantasma)		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الكلب الأسود (تراث شعبي)
ca	Catalan Gos negre (fantasma)
de	German Schwarzer Hund
en	English Black dog (folklore)
es	Spanish Perro negro (fantasma)
et	Estonian Must koer
eu	Basque Txakur beltza (mamua)
fi	Finnish Musta koira
fr	French Chien noir
it	Italian Cane nero
ja	Japanese ブラックドッグ (亡霊)
ko	Korean 검둥개
lt	Lithuanian Juodasis šuo
no	Norwegian Svarthund
pl	Polish Czarny pies (folklor)
ru	Russian Чёрные псы (призраки)
sr	Serbian Црни пас (дух)
vi	Vietnamese Con chó ma
zh	Chinese 黑犬

Best Rank

Norwegian: #20277 02.2019

Global: #44644 08.2019

Best Rank

Norwegian: #10164 07.2011

Global: #22128 02.2011

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