The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Quality:

The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Aesop’s fable. This book is the 685^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 321^st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 321^st most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 685^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 712 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is on the 321^st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 685^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 623 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1183 in July 2016
• Global: #5179 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8207 in October 2012
• Global: #37249 in June 2021

There are 23 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	Hebrew (he) הילד שצעק זאב		35.1519
2	English (en) The Boy Who Cried Wolf		31.7323
3	Greek (el) Ο Ψεύτης Βοσκός		28.4695
4	Indonesian (id) Pengembala dan Biri-biri		28.2178
5	Polish (pl) Chłopiec, który wołał o pomoc		28.1624
6	Ukrainian (uk) Хлопчик, що гукав про вовка		27.9586
7	Japanese (ja) 嘘をつく子供		27.7905
8	Norwegian (no) Gutten som ropte ulv		27.0632
9	Basque (eu) Artzain gezurtia		25.7086
10	German (de) Der Hirtenjunge und der Wolf		23.2811

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy Who Cried Wolf		3 922 842
2	Japanese (ja) 嘘をつく子供		1 012 052
3	Spanish (es) El pastor mentiroso		405 675
4	Chinese (zh) 狼來了		320 537
5	German (de) Der Hirtenjunge und der Wolf		303 754
6	Italian (it) Al lupo! Al lupo!		264 704
7	Korean (ko) 양치기 소년		212 892
8	Portuguese (pt) O Pastor Mentiroso e o Lobo		203 287
9	Russian (ru) Мальчик, который кричал: «Волк!»		168 964
10	French (fr) L'Enfant qui criait au loup		132 703

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 Boy Who Cried Wolf		18 072
2	Spanish (es) El pastor mentiroso		2 658
3	Japanese (ja) 嘘をつく子供		2 443
4	French (fr) L'Enfant qui criait au loup		2 356
5	Russian (ru) Мальчик, который кричал: «Волк!»		2 314
6	Chinese (zh) 狼來了		1 594
7	German (de) Der Hirtenjunge und der Wolf		1 367
8	Portuguese (pt) O Pastor Mentiroso e o Lobo		908
9	Korean (ko) 양치기 소년		803
10	Italian (it) Al lupo! Al lupo!		714

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy Who Cried Wolf		302
2	Japanese (ja) 嘘をつく子供		55
3	Italian (it) Al lupo! Al lupo!		54
4	Chinese (zh) 狼來了		49
5	Hebrew (he) הילד שצעק זאב		38
6	German (de) Der Hirtenjunge und der Wolf		37
7	Spanish (es) El pastor mentiroso		30
8	Portuguese (pt) O Pastor Mentiroso e o Lobo		22
9	Persian (fa) چوپان دروغگو		19
10	Swedish (sv) Pojken och vargen		15

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 Boy Who Cried Wolf		5
2	Spanish (es) El pastor mentiroso		2
3	Arabic (ar) الفتى الذي ادعى وجود ذئب		0
4	Catalan (ca) El pastor mentider		0
5	German (de) Der Hirtenjunge und der Wolf		0
6	Greek (el) Ο Ψεύτης Βοσκός		0
7	Basque (eu) Artzain gezurtia		0
8	Persian (fa) چوپان دروغگو		0
9	Finnish (fi) Poika ja susi		0
10	French (fr) L'Enfant qui criait au loup		0

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

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