Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977 film directed by Steven Spielberg. This film is the 1029^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 636^th most popular film in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. Article “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 72.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 70 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia:

The 636^th most popular in films in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1029^th most popular in films.

Since the creation of article “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and edited by 2016 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is on the 636^th place in local ranking of films in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and on the 1029^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 76 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 5657 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #730 in August 2022
• Global: #6032 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #3221 in April 2023
• Global: #8259 in November 2015

There are 41 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) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		96.0099
2	Croatian (hr) Bliski susreti treće vrste (1977.)		78.3442
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		72.6525
4	Serbian (sr) Блиски сусрети треће врсте		72.5259
5	Russian (ru) Близкие контакты третьей степени		54.1046
6	German (de) Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art		49.1031
7	Italian (it) Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo		44.7476
8	Dutch (nl) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		43.3173
9	Greek (el) Στενές επαφές τρίτου τύπου		40.2709
10	French (fr) Rencontres du troisième type		38.6494

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		10 553 099
2	French (fr) Rencontres du troisième type		1 242 878
3	Japanese (ja) 未知との遭遇		1 204 965
4	German (de) Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art		1 142 996
5	Italian (it) Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo		1 045 369
6	Russian (ru) Близкие контакты третьей степени		974 945
7	Spanish (es) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		920 962
8	Portuguese (pt) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		255 115
9	Chinese (zh) 第三類接觸 (電影)		238 880
10	Polish (pl) Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia		218 798

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) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		56 928
2	Italian (it) Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo		5 502
3	Japanese (ja) 未知との遭遇		4 562
4	Russian (ru) Близкие контакты третьей степени		4 293
5	German (de) Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art		3 906
6	French (fr) Rencontres du troisième type		3 663
7	Spanish (es) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		2 804
8	Chinese (zh) 第三類接觸 (電影)		951
9	Portuguese (pt) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		790
10	Polish (pl) Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia		672

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		626
2	French (fr) Rencontres du troisième type		216
3	German (de) Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art		175
4	Italian (it) Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo		137
5	Russian (ru) Близкие контакты третьей степени		120
6	Japanese (ja) 未知との遭遇		91
7	Spanish (es) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		83
8	Dutch (nl) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		81
9	Polish (pl) Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia		43
10	Portuguese (pt) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		39

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) Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art		3
2	English (en) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		3
3	French (fr) Rencontres du troisième type		2
4	Galician (gl) Encontros na terceira fase		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Harmadik típusú találkozások		1
6	Italian (it) Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo		1
7	Dutch (nl) Close Encounters of the Third Kind		1
8	Russian (ru) Близкие контакты третьей степени		1
9	Arabic (ar) لقاءات قريبة من النوع الثالث		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Близки срещи от третия вид		0

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

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