The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox - fairy tale by H.C. Andersen. This book is the 3091^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 488^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Tinderbox” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Tinderbox”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Tinderbox is on the 488^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3091^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1060 in April 2013
• Global: #29146 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #435 in May 2026
• Global: #82875 in January 2025

There are 21 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	Persian (fa) جعبه فندک		32.442
2	English (en) The Tinderbox		27.9453
3	Polish (pl) Krzesiwo (baśń)		26.8752
4	Ukrainian (uk) Кресало (казка)		22.6731
5	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		22.6576
6	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		17.7918
7	Japanese (ja) 火うち箱		16.5842
8	Simple English (simple) The Tinderbox		13.8764
9	Urdu (ur) دی ٹنڈر باکس		13.7426
10	Spanish (es) El yesquero		12.7994

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Tinderbox" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Tinderbox		606 278
2	Russian (ru) Огниво (сказка)		347 085
3	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		267 835
4	Danish (da) Fyrtøjet		114 982
5	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		105 124
6	Italian (it) L'acciarino magico		84 118
7	Japanese (ja) 火うち箱		78 929
8	Swedish (sv) Elddonet		77 921
9	Spanish (es) El yesquero		76 005
10	Dutch (nl) De tondeldoos		62 975

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Tinderbox" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Tinderbox		2 239
2	Russian (ru) Огниво (сказка)		1 014
3	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		482
4	Japanese (ja) 火うち箱		276
5	Danish (da) Fyrtøjet		259
6	Italian (it) L'acciarino magico		240
7	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		214
8	Swedish (sv) Elddonet		165
9	Dutch (nl) De tondeldoos		145
10	Spanish (es) El yesquero		138

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

Language versions of the article "The Tinderbox" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Tinderbox		74
2	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		58
3	Italian (it) L'acciarino magico		35
4	Danish (da) Fyrtøjet		31
5	Dutch (nl) De tondeldoos		27
6	Swedish (sv) Elddonet		26
7	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		24
8	Russian (ru) Огниво (сказка)		22
9	Spanish (es) El yesquero		19
10	Norwegian (no) Fyrtøyet		13

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

Language versions of the article "The Tinderbox" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) جعبه فندک		1
2	Czech (cs) Křesadlo (pohádka)		0
3	Danish (da) Fyrtøjet		0
4	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		0
5	English (en) The Tinderbox		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Fajrilo (Andersen)		0
7	Spanish (es) El yesquero		0
8	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		0
9	Armenian (hy) Հրահանը		0
10	Italian (it) L'acciarino magico		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Tinderbox" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Tinderbox		97
2	Danish (da) Fyrtøjet		72
3	Swedish (sv) Elddonet		57
4	Persian (fa) جعبه فندک		42
5	German (de) Das Feuerzeug		35
6	Russian (ru) Огниво (сказка)		35
7	French (fr) Le Briquet (Andersen)		13
8	Dutch (nl) De tondeldoos		13
9	Italian (it) L'acciarino magico		12
10	Japanese (ja) 火うち箱		12

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Křesadlo (pohádka)
da	Danish Fyrtøjet
de	German Das Feuerzeug
en	English The Tinderbox
eo	Esperanto Fajrilo (Andersen)
es	Spanish El yesquero
fa	Persian جعبه فندک
fr	French Le Briquet (Andersen)
hy	Armenian Հրահանը
it	Italian L'acciarino magico
ja	Japanese 火うち箱
ko	Korean 부싯돌 상자
nl	Dutch De tondeldoos
no	Norwegian Fyrtøyet
pl	Polish Krzesiwo (baśń)
ro	Romanian Bricheta (Andersen)
ru	Russian Огниво (сказка)
simple	Simple English The Tinderbox
sv	Swedish Elddonet
uk	Ukrainian Кресало (казка)
ur	Urdu دی ٹنڈر باکس

Best Rank

Simple English: #435 05.2026

Global: #82875 01.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #1060 04.2013

Global: #29146 12.2011

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