The Canterbury Tales

Quality:

The Canterbury Tales - collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book is the 175^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 15^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Canterbury Tales” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1383^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2751^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 175^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4972^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Canterbury Tales”, its content was written by 50 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2751^st place) and edited by 1967 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Canterbury Tales is on the 15^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 175^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3382 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #25 in November 2011
• Global: #972 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in August 2009
• Global: #5354 in October 2008

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, 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	Dutch (nl) The Canterbury Tales		94.1176
2	English (en) The Canterbury Tales		85.1175
3	Estonian (et) Canterbury lood		78.1323
4	Russian (ru) Кентерберийские рассказы		69.9265
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Canterbury-forteljingar		58.8559
6	Romanian (ro) Povestirile din Canterbury		57.5458
7	Malay (ms) The Canterbury Tales		53.8591
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кентърбърийски разкази		48.2035
9	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー物語		46.8009
10	Simple English (simple) The Canterbury Tales		39.0178

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Canterbury Tales		15 521 629
2	Spanish (es) Los cuentos de Canterbury		1 394 635
3	Italian (it) I racconti di Canterbury		1 257 502
4	Russian (ru) Кентерберийские рассказы		802 798
5	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー物語		717 348
6	Dutch (nl) The Canterbury Tales		489 956
7	German (de) Canterbury Tales		460 340
8	French (fr) Les Contes de Canterbury		415 385
9	Chinese (zh) 坎特伯雷故事集		256 668
10	Portuguese (pt) Os Contos de Cantuária		249 512

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 Canterbury Tales		38 844
2	Spanish (es) Los cuentos de Canterbury		3 820
3	Russian (ru) Кентерберийские рассказы		2 841
4	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー物語		2 343
5	Italian (it) I racconti di Canterbury		1 597
6	German (de) Canterbury Tales		1 572
7	French (fr) Les Contes de Canterbury		1 142
8	Chinese (zh) 坎特伯雷故事集		824
9	Dutch (nl) The Canterbury Tales		679
10	Portuguese (pt) Os Contos de Cantuária		627

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Canterbury Tales		742
2	Dutch (nl) The Canterbury Tales		122
3	French (fr) Les Contes de Canterbury		111
4	Italian (it) I racconti di Canterbury		107
5	Spanish (es) Los cuentos de Canterbury		83
6	German (de) Canterbury Tales		82
7	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー物語		58
8	Russian (ru) Кентерберийские рассказы		55
9	Hebrew (he) סיפורי קנטרברי		54
10	Simple English (simple) The Canterbury Tales		50

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	French (fr) Les Contes de Canterbury		2
2	Catalan (ca) Els contes de Canterbury		1
3	Croatian (hr) Canterburyjske priče		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Os Contos de Cantuária		1
5	Arabic (ar) حكايات كانتربري		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kenterberi hekayələri		0
7	Belarusian (be) Кентэрберыйскія аповеды		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кентърбърийски разкази		0
9	Czech (cs) Canterburské povídky		0
10	Danish (da) Canterbury-fortællingerne		0

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

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