The Black Cat

Quality:

The Black Cat - short story by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is the 564^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 307^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Black Cat” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 307^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 564^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Black Cat”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 893 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Black Cat is on the 307^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 564^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1113 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1536 in March 2016
• Global: #737 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7625 in November 2015
• Global: #6119 in October 2023

There are 29 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	Greek (el) Ο μαύρος γάτος (διήγημα)		39.3818
2	Turkish (tr) Kara Kedi		39.2246
3	English (en) The Black Cat (short story)		38.0628
4	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		35.2097
5	Korean (ko) 검은 고양이 (단편소설)		29.4513
6	Chinese (zh) 黑猫 (短篇小说)		26.9633
7	Spanish (es) El gato negro		26.3625
8	Polish (pl) Czarny kot (nowela)		25.3878
9	Romanian (ro) Pisica neagră (povestire)		23.0783
10	Serbian (sr) Црни мачак (приповетка)		22.5853

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)		3 437 400
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		2 398 829
3	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		497 433
4	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		437 486
5	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		394 178
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		283 632
7	Portuguese (pt) O Gato Preto		267 726
8	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		178 281
9	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		161 063
10	Arabic (ar) القط الأسود (قصة قصيرة)		99 058

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)		8 981
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		5 274
3	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		1 610
4	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		982
5	Portuguese (pt) O Gato Preto		934
6	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		914
7	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		765
8	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		455
9	Chinese (zh) 黑猫 (短篇小说)		354
10	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		336

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)		223
2	Spanish (es) El gato negro		105
3	French (fr) Le Chat noir (nouvelle)		85
4	Italian (it) Il gatto nero (racconto)		83
5	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		70
6	Japanese (ja) 黒猫 (小説)		35
7	Turkish (tr) Kara Kedi		27
8	Hungarian (hu) A fekete macska (novella)		26
9	Russian (ru) Чёрный кот (рассказ)		26
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний кіт (оповідання)		25

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	Spanish (es) El gato negro		5
2	English (en) The Black Cat (short story)		3
3	German (de) Der schwarze Kater		1
4	Greek (el) Ο μαύρος γάτος (διήγημα)		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Чорний кіт (оповідання)		1
6	Arabic (ar) القط الأسود (قصة قصيرة)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qara pişik (hekayə)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Черният котарак		0
9	Catalan (ca) El gat negre		0
10	Czech (cs) Černý kocour		0

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

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