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The Straight Dope

Quality:

The Straight Dope - column published in the Chicago Reader. This website is the 2331st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 465th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Straight Dope” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2331st most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “The Straight Dope”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Straight Dope is on the 465th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2331st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 370 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2467 in July 2022
  • Global: #24965 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #17767 in August 2021
  • Global: #58269 in September 2015

There are 5 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
36.5502
2Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
29.5176
3Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
25.2189
4English (en)
The Straight Dope
24.5477
5Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
22.645
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Straight Dope" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Straight Dope
669 057
2Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
7 438
3Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
3 948
4Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
3 020
5Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
904
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "The Straight Dope" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Straight Dope
1 176
2Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
73
3Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
17
4Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
17
5Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
12
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Straight Dope" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Straight Dope
118
2Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
7
3Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
4
4Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
3
5Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "The Straight Dope" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Straight Dope
0
2Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
0
3Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
0
4Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
0
5Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Straight Dope" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Straight Dope
256
2Spanish (es)
The Straight Dope
44
3Portuguese (pt)
The Straight Dope
35
4Russian (ru)
The Straight Dope
25
5Simple English (simple)
The Straight Dope
10
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
The Straight Dope
esSpanish
The Straight Dope
ptPortuguese
The Straight Dope
ruRussian
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simpleSimple English
The Straight Dope

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#17767
08.2021
Global:
#58269
09.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2467
07.2022
Global:
#24965
07.2005

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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