His Dark Materials

Quality:

His Dark Materials - novel series by Philip Pullman. This book is the 136^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 693^rd most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “His Dark Materials” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 693^rd most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 136^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “His Dark Materials”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

His Dark Materials is on the 693^rd place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 136^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1344 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4410 in June 2009
• Global: #336 in December 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #15627 in December 2010
• Global: #67 in November 2019

There are 33 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	French (fr) À la croisée des mondes		98.8271
2	English (en) His Dark Materials		75.5534
3	Thai (th) ธุลีปริศนา		64.2227
4	Finnish (fi) Universumien tomu		63.569
5	Bulgarian (bg) Тъмните му материи		62.8041
6	Swedish (sv) Den mörka materian		52.4369
7	Chinese (zh) 黑暗元素三部曲		44.6818
8	German (de) His Dark Materials		44.4342
9	Hebrew (he) חומריו האפלים		41.417
10	Italian (it) Queste oscure materie		38.4572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) His Dark Materials		15 864 442
2	Russian (ru) Тёмные начала		2 127 912
3	French (fr) À la croisée des mondes		2 112 747
4	German (de) His Dark Materials		1 545 608
5	Italian (it) Queste oscure materie		1 294 747
6	Spanish (es) La materia oscura		1 106 291
7	Japanese (ja) ライラの冒険		987 683
8	Polish (pl) Mroczne materie		468 782
9	Portuguese (pt) His Dark Materials		426 932
10	Chinese (zh) 黑暗元素三部曲		250 524

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) His Dark Materials		32 592
2	French (fr) À la croisée des mondes		4 363
3	Russian (ru) Тёмные начала		3 615
4	German (de) His Dark Materials		3 270
5	Italian (it) Queste oscure materie		2 662
6	Spanish (es) La materia oscura		1 383
7	Japanese (ja) ライラの冒険		1 158
8	Chinese (zh) 黑暗元素三部曲		796
9	Polish (pl) Mroczne materie		585
10	Portuguese (pt) His Dark Materials		577

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) His Dark Materials		794
2	French (fr) À la croisée des mondes		296
3	Italian (it) Queste oscure materie		230
4	German (de) His Dark Materials		203
5	Hebrew (he) חומריו האפלים		109
6	Spanish (es) La materia oscura		94
7	Polish (pl) Mroczne materie		69
8	Russian (ru) Тёмные начала		61
9	Dutch (nl) Het gouden kompas (trilogie)		56
10	Danish (da) Det Gyldne Kompas (serie)		54

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	Catalan (ca) La matèria obscura		1
2	German (de) His Dark Materials		1
3	Spanish (es) La materia oscura		1
4	Polish (pl) Mroczne materie		1
5	Russian (ru) Тёмные начала		1
6	Arabic (ar) مواده المظلمة		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Тъмните му материи		0
8	Czech (cs) Jeho temné esence		0
9	Danish (da) Det Gyldne Kompas (serie)		0
10	Greek (el) Η Τριλογία του Κόσμου		0

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

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