Because the Night

Because the Night - song written and composed by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, originally recorded by Patti Smith in 1977 and released in 1978. Article “Because the Night” in Polish Wikipedia has 17.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Because the Night”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Polish Wikipedia and edited by 449 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 1032 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #38483 in November 2009
• Global: #30041 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #59332 in March 2017
• Global: #39749 in February 2012

There are 14 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) Because the Night		77.7951
2	Catalan (ca) Because the Night		71.8138
3	French (fr) Because the Night		35.8682
4	German (de) Because the Night		34.8906
5	Italian (it) Because the Night		32.9578
6	Japanese (ja) ビコーズ・ザ・ナイト		29.706
7	Russian (ru) Because the Night		27.1028
8	Portuguese (pt) Because the Night		21.7248
9	Polish (pl) Because the Night		17.2241
10	Spanish (es) Because the Night		16.2693

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Because the Night		3 068 947
2	Italian (it) Because the Night		370 558
3	Spanish (es) Because the Night		181 707
4	French (fr) Because the Night		160 107
5	Swedish (sv) Because the Night		76 076
6	Portuguese (pt) Because the Night		44 827
7	Polish (pl) Because the Night		42 119
8	Russian (ru) Because the Night		41 035
9	German (de) Because the Night		39 267
10	Dutch (nl) Because the Night		24 239

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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 "Because the Night" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Because the Night		13 780
2	German (de) Because the Night		2 019
3	French (fr) Because the Night		973
4	Italian (it) Because the Night		838
5	Spanish (es) Because the Night		789
6	Czech (cs) Because the Night		379
7	Japanese (ja) ビコーズ・ザ・ナイト		237
8	Polish (pl) Because the Night		174
9	Portuguese (pt) Because the Night		161
10	Russian (ru) Because the Night		147

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Because the Night		248
2	Italian (it) Because the Night		60
3	French (fr) Because the Night		46
4	Russian (ru) Because the Night		20
5	German (de) Because the Night		15
6	Portuguese (pt) Because the Night		14
7	Czech (cs) Because the Night		11
8	Polish (pl) Because the Night		11
9	Spanish (es) Because the Night		9
10	Dutch (nl) Because the Night		5

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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 "Because the Night" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Because the Night		1
2	Catalan (ca) Because the Night		0
3	Czech (cs) Because the Night		0
4	German (de) Because the Night		0
5	Spanish (es) Because the Night		0
6	Basque (eu) Because the Night		0
7	French (fr) Because the Night		0
8	Italian (it) Because the Night		0
9	Japanese (ja) ビコーズ・ザ・ナイト		0
10	Dutch (nl) Because the Night		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 "Because the Night" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Because the Night		544
2	French (fr) Because the Night		144
3	Russian (ru) Because the Night		94
4	Dutch (nl) Because the Night		77
5	Italian (it) Because the Night		43
6	Polish (pl) Because the Night		35
7	Portuguese (pt) Because the Night		29
8	Spanish (es) Because the Night		18
9	Japanese (ja) ビコーズ・ザ・ナイト		13
10	Swedish (sv) Because the Night		13

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Because the Night
cs	Czech Because the Night
de	German Because the Night
en	English Because the Night
es	Spanish Because the Night
eu	Basque Because the Night
fr	French Because the Night
it	Italian Because the Night
ja	Japanese ビコーズ・ザ・ナイト
nl	Dutch Because the Night
pl	Polish Because the Night
pt	Portuguese Because the Night
ru	Russian Because the Night
sv	Swedish Because the Night

Best Rank

Polish: #59332 03.2017

Global: #39749 02.2012

Best Rank

Polish: #38483 11.2009

Global: #30041 07.2008

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