Matilda (novel)

Quality:

Matilda - 1988 children's book by Roald Dahl. This book is the 520^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 113^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Matilda (novel)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 113^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 520^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3422^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Matilda (novel)”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1262 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Matilda is on the 113^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 520^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 847 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in September 2013
• Global: #8018 in January 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1971 in May 2023
• Global: #11032 in December 2022

There are 27 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) Matilda (novel)		61.8271
2	Ukrainian (uk) Матильда (книга)		36.4146
3	Chinese (zh) 瑪蒂達 (小說)		34.9179
4	Czech (cs) Matylda (román)		31.448
5	Armenian (hy) Մաթիլդա (գիրք)		29.4532
6	Russian (ru) Матильда (книга)		26.6939
7	German (de) Matilda (Roman)		24.7663
8	Catalan (ca) Matilda (novel·la)		22.2847
9	Norwegian (no) Matilda (bok)		22.1812
10	French (fr) Matilda (roman)		22.1754

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Matilda (novel)		5 486 325
2	Spanish (es) Matilda		1 681 873
3	French (fr) Matilda (roman)		488 675
4	Italian (it) Matilde (romanzo)		361 485
5	Dutch (nl) Matilda (boek)		234 710
6	German (de) Matilda (Roman)		209 106
7	Chinese (zh) 瑪蒂達 (小說)		141 435
8	Norwegian (no) Matilda (bok)		128 557
9	Japanese (ja) マチルダは小さな大天才		125 648
10	Persian (fa) ماتیلدا (رمان)		101 941

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) Matilda (novel)		19 979
2	Spanish (es) Matilda		2 370
3	German (de) Matilda (Roman)		1 605
4	French (fr) Matilda (roman)		1 430
5	Simple English (simple) Matilda (novel)		1 428
6	Chinese (zh) 瑪蒂達 (小說)		1 358
7	Italian (it) Matilde (romanzo)		1 300
8	Japanese (ja) マチルダは小さな大天才		792
9	Russian (ru) Матильда (книга)		753
10	Dutch (nl) Matilda (boek)		492

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Matilda (novel)		566
2	Spanish (es) Matilda		101
3	French (fr) Matilda (roman)		84
4	Dutch (nl) Matilda (boek)		80
5	German (de) Matilda (Roman)		75
6	Italian (it) Matilde (romanzo)		71
7	Hebrew (he) מטילדה (ספר)		51
8	Norwegian (no) Matilda (bok)		44
9	Swedish (sv) Matilda (barnbok)		28
10	Chinese (zh) 瑪蒂達 (小說)		20

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) Matilda (novel)		3
2	German (de) Matilda (Roman)		1
3	Persian (fa) ماتیلدا (رمان)		1
4	Dutch (nl) Matilda (boek)		1
5	Arabic (ar) ماتيلدا (رواية)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Matilda (roman)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Matilda (novel·la)		0
8	Czech (cs) Matylda (román)		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Matilda (romano)		0
10	Spanish (es) Matilda		0

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

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