The Elf on the Shelf

Quality:

The Elf on the Shelf - 2005 picture book by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell. This book is the 997^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 559^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Elf on the Shelf” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 997^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Elf on the Shelf”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 327 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Elf on the Shelf is on the 559^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 997^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 486 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1480 in December 2016
• Global: #1081 in December 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4561 in December 2018
• Global: #1280 in December 2015

There are 6 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) The Elf on the Shelf		52.0148
2	German (de) The Elf on the Shelf		43.2662
3	Norwegian (no) Rampenissen		28.1367
4	Czech (cs) The Elf on the Shelf		23.3502
5	Simple English (simple) The Elf on the Shelf		18.0024
6	French (fr) The Elf on the Shelf		14.1781

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Elf on the Shelf		5 243 232
2	French (fr) The Elf on the Shelf		25 171
3	German (de) The Elf on the Shelf		8 058
4	Simple English (simple) The Elf on the Shelf		5 502
5	Czech (cs) The Elf on the Shelf		1 382
6	Norwegian (no) Rampenissen		1 224

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 Elf on the Shelf		2 275
2	German (de) The Elf on the Shelf		80
3	French (fr) The Elf on the Shelf		32
4	Simple English (simple) The Elf on the Shelf		22
5	Norwegian (no) Rampenissen		19
6	Czech (cs) The Elf on the Shelf		5

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Elf on the Shelf		294
2	German (de) The Elf on the Shelf		10
3	French (fr) The Elf on the Shelf		10
4	Simple English (simple) The Elf on the Shelf		6
5	Czech (cs) The Elf on the Shelf		5
6	Norwegian (no) Rampenissen		2

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	Czech (cs) The Elf on the Shelf		0
2	German (de) The Elf on the Shelf		0
3	English (en) The Elf on the Shelf		0
4	French (fr) The Elf on the Shelf		0
5	Norwegian (no) Rampenissen		0
6	Simple English (simple) The Elf on the Shelf		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information