Fourth wall

Quality:

Fourth wall - imaginary vertical plane at the front of a theatrical stage separating performers from the audience. Article “Fourth wall” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Fourth wall”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1875 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4253 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #265 in December 2014
• Global: #1307 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7670 in October 2022
• Global: #1022 in February 2016

There are 34 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) Fourth wall		57.1173
2	Russian (ru) Четвёртая стена		44.0865
3	Arabic (ar) الجدار الرابع		38.9237
4	Armenian (hy) Չորրորդ պատ		35.7342
5	Simple English (simple) Fourth wall		35.1198
6	Chinese (zh) 第四面墙		26.8862
7	Malay (ms) Dinding keempat		26.5976
8	Turkish (tr) Dördüncü duvar		26.565
9	Spanish (es) Cuarta pared		26.1075
10	German (de) Vierte Wand		21.8403

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fourth wall		14 809 598
2	Japanese (ja) 第四の壁		1 390 835
3	Spanish (es) Cuarta pared		1 339 186
4	Russian (ru) Четвёртая стена		1 211 337
5	German (de) Vierte Wand		1 125 335
6	French (fr) Quatrième mur		880 661
7	Italian (it) Quarta parete		671 509
8	Chinese (zh) 第四面墙		656 381
9	Portuguese (pt) Quarta parede		382 418
10	Polish (pl) Czwarta ściana		289 812

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) Fourth wall		24 540
2	Japanese (ja) 第四の壁		5 077
3	Russian (ru) Четвёртая стена		2 108
4	German (de) Vierte Wand		2 043
5	French (fr) Quatrième mur		1 541
6	Spanish (es) Cuarta pared		1 233
7	Italian (it) Quarta parete		1 176
8	Chinese (zh) 第四面墙		1 140
9	Polish (pl) Czwarta ściana		505
10	Portuguese (pt) Quarta parede		358

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fourth wall		968
2	French (fr) Quatrième mur		162
3	Spanish (es) Cuarta pared		96
4	Italian (it) Quarta parete		84
5	German (de) Vierte Wand		68
6	Russian (ru) Четвёртая стена		66
7	Japanese (ja) 第四の壁		59
8	Hebrew (he) הקיר הרביעי		57
9	Swedish (sv) Fjärde väggen		41
10	Dutch (nl) Vierde wand		37

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) Fourth wall		3
2	Arabic (ar) الجدار الرابع		2
3	Italian (it) Quarta parete		1
4	Japanese (ja) 第四の壁		1
5	Korean (ko) 제4의 벽		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dördüncü divar		0
7	Catalan (ca) Quarta paret		0
8	Czech (cs) Čtvrtá stěna		0
9	German (de) Vierte Wand		0
10	Greek (el) Τέταρτος τοίχος		0

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

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