The Black Cat

Quality:

The Black Cat - short story by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is the 577^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 312^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Black Cat” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 312^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 577^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Black Cat”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 928 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Black Cat is on the 312^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 577^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1148 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1537 in March 2016
• Global: #742 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7649 in November 2015
• Global: #6131 in October 2023

There are 30 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	Turkish (tr) Kara Kedi		39.299
2	English (en) The Black Cat (short story)		37.9178
3	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		35.2317
4	Greek (el) Ο μαύρος γάτος (διήγημα)		31.6147
5	Korean (ko) 검은 고양이 (단편소설)		29.4106
6	Chinese (zh) 黑猫 (短篇小说)		26.9321
7	Spanish (es) El gato negro		25.7582
8	Polish (pl) Czarny kot (nowela)		25.3662
9	Romanian (ro) Pisica neagră (povestire)		23.0263
10	Serbian (sr) Црни мачак (приповетка)		22.37

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Black Cat (short story)		3 549 626
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		2 448 410
3	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		510 912
4	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		455 184
5	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		418 857
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		308 430
7	Portuguese (pt) O Gato Preto		275 157
8	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		184 154
9	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		167 658
10	Arabic (ar) القط الأسود (قصة قصيرة)		101 111

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) The Black Cat (short story)		5 876
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		3 185
3	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		1 208
4	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		843
5	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		629
6	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		579
7	Portuguese (pt) O Gato Preto		486
8	Chinese (zh) 黑猫 (短篇小说)		367
9	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		364
10	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		270

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Black Cat (short story)		229
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		107
3	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		94
4	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		83
5	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		71
6	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		36
7	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний кіт (оповідання)		31
8	Turkish (tr) Kara Kedi		29
9	Hungarian (hu) A fekete macska (novella)		26
10	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		26

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) The Black Cat (short story)		2
2	Arabic (ar) القط الأسود (قصة قصيرة)		1
3	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		1
4	Dutch (nl) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)		1
5	Uzbek (uz) Qora mushuk (hikoya)		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Qara pişik (hekayə)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Черният котарак		0
8	Catalan (ca) El gat negre		0
9	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		0
10	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		0

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

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