The Pillars of the Earth

Quality:

The Pillars of the Earth - 1989 novel by Ken Follett. This book is the 199^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 560^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Pillars of the Earth” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 199^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Pillars of the Earth”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1036 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Pillars of the Earth is on the 560^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 199^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 698 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #384 in November 2010
• Global: #4850 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7887 in January 2011
• Global: #629 in November 2010

There are 25 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 Pillars of the Earth		47.8107
2	German (de) Die Säulen der Erde		34.8388
3	Hebrew (he) עמודי תבל		33.2811
4	Italian (it) I pilastri della Terra		32.404
5	Russian (ru) Столпы Земли (роман)		30.5126
6	French (fr) Les Piliers de la Terre		25.2881
7	Japanese (ja) 大聖堂 (ケン・フォレットの小説)		24.1047
8	Serbian (sr) Стубови земље		20.3404
9	Spanish (es) Los pilares de la Tierra		18.9359
10	Danish (da) Jordens søjler		12.7504

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Pillars of the Earth		9 806 904
2	German (de) Die Säulen der Erde		2 820 894
3	Spanish (es) Los pilares de la Tierra		2 779 852
4	French (fr) Les Piliers de la Terre		1 963 543
5	Italian (it) I pilastri della Terra		1 930 519
6	Polish (pl) Filary Ziemi		302 450
7	Portuguese (pt) Os Pilares da Terra		194 017
8	Danish (da) Jordens søjler		154 660
9	Russian (ru) Столпы Земли (роман)		130 988
10	Japanese (ja) 大聖堂 (ケン・フォレットの小説)		127 087

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 Pillars of the Earth		32 296
2	French (fr) Les Piliers de la Terre		7 387
3	Spanish (es) Los pilares de la Tierra		6 410
4	German (de) Die Säulen der Erde		6 291
5	Italian (it) I pilastri della Terra		5 965
6	Russian (ru) Столпы Земли (роман)		1 858
7	Polish (pl) Filary Ziemi		1 270
8	Portuguese (pt) Os Pilares da Terra		1 042
9	Japanese (ja) 大聖堂 (ケン・フォレットの小説)		788
10	Danish (da) Jordens søjler		523

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Pillars of the Earth		270
2	German (de) Die Säulen der Erde		182
3	French (fr) Les Piliers de la Terre		130
4	Italian (it) I pilastri della Terra		110
5	Spanish (es) Los pilares de la Tierra		87
6	Japanese (ja) 大聖堂 (ケン・フォレットの小説)		41
7	Hebrew (he) עמודי תבל		34
8	Norwegian (no) Stormenes tid		22
9	Catalan (ca) Els pilars de la Terra		21
10	Finnish (fi) Taivaan pilarit		20

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 Pillars of the Earth		2
2	Hebrew (he) עמודי תבל		2
3	German (de) Die Säulen der Erde		1
4	Spanish (es) Los pilares de la Tierra		1
5	French (fr) Les Piliers de la Terre		1
6	Arabic (ar) أعمدة الأرض		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Устоите на Земята		0
8	Catalan (ca) Els pilars de la Terra		0
9	Czech (cs) Pilíře země		0
10	Danish (da) Jordens søjler		0

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

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