Moby-Dick

Quality:

Moby-Dick - novel by Herman Melville. This book is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 155^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Moby-Dick” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.52 points.

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 155^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3288^th most popular in all topics.

The 4440^th most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8025^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4722^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Moby-Dick”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3744 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4440^th place).

Moby-Dick is on the 155^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #588 in October 2012
• Global: #82 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3686 in March 2016
• Global: #130 in December 2015

There are 48 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) Moby-Dick		96.7854
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		70.2974
3	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		68.2736
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Moby Dick		59.3939
5	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		47.9335
6	Persian (fa) موبی دیک		46.8848
7	Catalan (ca) Moby Dick		46.1113
8	Italian (it) Moby Dick		43.0527
9	French (fr) Moby-Dick		39.5331
10	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		39.3752

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moby-Dick		23 561 616
2	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		4 079 027
3	German (de) Moby-Dick		3 900 789
4	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		3 455 034
5	French (fr) Moby-Dick		2 733 639
6	Italian (it) Moby Dick		2 609 540
7	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		2 365 773
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		1 841 734
9	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		958 139
10	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		837 304

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) Moby-Dick		87 483
2	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		12 304
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		12 179
4	German (de) Moby-Dick		11 523
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		10 438
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		8 843
7	Italian (it) Moby Dick		7 691
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		4 251
9	Chinese (zh) 白鯨記		4 014
10	Polish (pl) Moby Dick		3 494

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moby-Dick		1 431
2	German (de) Moby-Dick		331
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		275
4	Italian (it) Moby Dick		245
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		167
6	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		116
7	Russian (ru) Моби Дик		114
8	Dutch (nl) Moby-Dick (boek)		112
9	Hebrew (he) מובי דיק		93
10	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		70

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) Moby-Dick		4
2	English (en) Moby-Dick		3
3	French (fr) Moby-Dick		3
4	Korean (ko) 모비딕		2
5	Spanish (es) Moby Dick		1
6	Hebrew (he) מובי דיק		1
7	Japanese (ja) 白鯨		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Moby Dick		1
9	Romanian (ro) Moby Dick		1
10	Arabic (ar) موبي ديك		0

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

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