The Merchant of Venice

Quality:

The Merchant of Venice - play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice. This book is the 168^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 35^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Merchant of Venice” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 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:

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The 3925^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 35^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 168^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6834^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 7108^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Merchant of Venice” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (7108^th place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Merchant of Venice”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2413 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Merchant of Venice is on the 35^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 168^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8045 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #327 in April 2015
• Global: #1899 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #826 in February 2017
• Global: #7775 in January 2009

There are 40 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 Merchant of Venice		75.9001
2	Bulgarian (bg) Венецианският търговец		65.1493
3	German (de) Der Kaufmann von Venedig		59.7961
4	Hungarian (hu) A velencei kalmár		57.2966
5	Swedish (sv) Köpmannen i Venedig		55.1428
6	Polish (pl) Kupiec wenecki		53.3013
7	Arabic (ar) تاجر البندقية (مسرحية)		53.0824
8	Latin (la) The Merchant of Venice		48.6524
9	Croatian (hr) Mletački trgovac		43.5654
10	Italian (it) Il mercante di Venezia		42.3294

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Merchant of Venice		11 933 563
2	Spanish (es) El mercader de Venecia		1 760 610
3	Japanese (ja) ヴェニスの商人		1 606 047
4	Italian (it) Il mercante di Venezia		1 590 476
5	German (de) Der Kaufmann von Venedig		1 108 841
6	Arabic (ar) تاجر البندقية (مسرحية)		688 100
7	French (fr) Le Marchand de Venise		576 897
8	Chinese (zh) 威尼斯商人		567 516
9	Russian (ru) Венецианский купец		547 309
10	Portuguese (pt) O Mercador de Veneza		386 536

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 Merchant of Venice		30 421
2	Japanese (ja) ヴェニスの商人		7 377
3	French (fr) Le Marchand de Venise		3 297
4	Italian (it) Il mercante di Venezia		3 097
5	Spanish (es) El mercader de Venecia		3 079
6	Chinese (zh) 威尼斯商人		2 624
7	German (de) Der Kaufmann von Venedig		2 598
8	Russian (ru) Венецианский купец		2 049
9	Portuguese (pt) O Mercador de Veneza		1 684
10	Korean (ko) 베니스의 상인		1 643

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Merchant of Venice		911
2	German (de) Der Kaufmann von Venedig		189
3	Italian (it) Il mercante di Venezia		145
4	French (fr) Le Marchand de Venise		122
5	Spanish (es) El mercader de Venecia		99
6	Japanese (ja) ヴェニスの商人		94
7	Hebrew (he) הסוחר מוונציה		88
8	Russian (ru) Венецианский купец		86
9	Norwegian (no) Kjøpmannen i Venedig		55
10	Dutch (nl) De koopman van Venetië (toneelstuk)		45

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 Merchant of Venice		2
2	Hebrew (he) הסוחר מוונציה		2
3	Russian (ru) Венецианский купец		2
4	Finnish (fi) Venetsian kauppias		1
5	Japanese (ja) ヴェニスの商人		1
6	Simple English (simple) The Merchant of Venice		1
7	Arabic (ar) تاجر البندقية (مسرحية)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Венецианският търговец		0
9	Catalan (ca) El marxant de Venècia		0
10	Czech (cs) Kupec benátský		0

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

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