The Waste Land

Quality:

The Waste Land - poem by T.S. Eliot. This book is the 530^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 257^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Waste Land” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 3 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 257^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 530^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Waste Land”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 955 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Waste Land is on the 257^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 530^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2405 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1491 in December 2016
• Global: #6148 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1000 in August 2021
• Global: #18721 in April 2011

There are 31 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	English (en) The Waste Land		100
2	Hindi (hi) द वेस्ट लैंड		73.5879
3	Greek (el) Η έρημη χώρα		40.1052
4	Polish (pl) Ziemia jałowa		38.778
5	Latin (la) The Waste Land		35.6529
6	Serbian (sr) Pusta zemlja		33.4491
7	Swedish (sv) Det öde landet		32.3406
8	Korean (ko) 황무지 (시)		29.4786
9	Italian (it) La terra desolata		25.7765
10	Simple English (simple) The Waste Land		25.4581

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Waste Land		6 950 688
2	Italian (it) La terra desolata		997 217
3	Spanish (es) La tierra baldía		307 925
4	German (de) Das wüste Land		286 722
5	French (fr) La Terre vaine		125 250
6	Chinese (zh) 荒原 (詩)		119 206
7	Korean (ko) 황무지 (시)		112 424
8	Russian (ru) Бесплодная земля		93 627
9	Arabic (ar) الأرض اليباب		90 001
10	Japanese (ja) 荒地 (詩)		87 504

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 Waste Land		19 440
2	Italian (it) La terra desolata		1 769
3	German (de) Das wüste Land		991
4	Spanish (es) La tierra baldía		865
5	Japanese (ja) 荒地 (詩)		825
6	Russian (ru) Бесплодная земля		734
7	Chinese (zh) 荒原 (詩)		624
8	Polish (pl) Ziemia jałowa		441
9	French (fr) La Terre vaine		422
10	Korean (ko) 황무지 (시)		306

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Waste Land		413
2	Italian (it) La terra desolata		112
3	German (de) Das wüste Land		60
4	French (fr) La Terre vaine		47
5	Dutch (nl) The Waste Land		41
6	Hebrew (he) ארץ הישימון		34
7	Vietnamese (vi) Đất hoang		23
8	Spanish (es) La tierra baldía		21
9	Hindi (hi) द वेस्ट लैंड		21
10	Russian (ru) Бесплодная земля		17

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	Arabic (ar) الأرض اليباب		2
2	German (de) Das wüste Land		1
3	Galician (gl) A terra baldía		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đất hoang		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Пустата земя		0
6	Czech (cs) Pustá země		0
7	Greek (el) Η έρημη χώρα		0
8	English (en) The Waste Land		0
9	Esperanto (eo) The Waste Land		0
10	Spanish (es) La tierra baldía		0

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

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