Wicked (book)

Quality:

Wicked - 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. This book is the 491^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Wicked (book)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 491^st most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Wicked (book)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wicked (book)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 789 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wicked is on the 491^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 629 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1578 in April 2025
• Global: #2528 in November 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #107847 in June 2025
• Global: #181 in November 2024

There are 15 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) Wicked (Maguire novel)		59.3379
2	Chinese (zh) 女巫前傳		53.0035
3	Spanish (es) Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala		44.3406
4	Portuguese (pt) Maligna (romance de Gregory Maguire)		41.8959
5	Arabic (ar) ويكيد (رواية ماجواير)		31.6587
6	German (de) Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz (Roman)		26.7662
7	Serbian (sr) Злица (роман)		14.761
8	Italian (it) Strega - Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta		13.8205
9	Polish (pl) Wicked: Życie i czasy Złej Czarownicy z Zachodu		13.1122
10	Hebrew (he) מרשעת (ספר)		12.3996

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wicked (Maguire novel)		9 012 818
2	Spanish (es) Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala		284 799
3	German (de) Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz (Roman)		227 177
4	Italian (it) Strega - Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta		89 084
5	French (fr) Wicked : La Véritable Histoire de la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest		63 197
6	Chinese (zh) 女巫前傳		41 389
7	Hebrew (he) מרשעת (ספר)		31 034
8	Polish (pl) Wicked: Życie i czasy Złej Czarownicy z Zachodu		13 372
9	Finnish (fi) Noita: Lännen ilkeän noidan elämä ja teot		10 580
10	Portuguese (pt) Maligna (romance de Gregory Maguire)		4 544

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) Wicked (Maguire novel)		61 055
2	German (de) Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz (Roman)		2 401
3	French (fr) Wicked : La Véritable Histoire de la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest		2 292
4	Spanish (es) Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala		2 157
5	Italian (it) Strega - Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta		1 354
6	Portuguese (pt) Maligna (romance de Gregory Maguire)		1 100
7	Chinese (zh) 女巫前傳		1 036
8	Polish (pl) Wicked: Życie i czasy Złej Czarownicy z Zachodu		597
9	Hebrew (he) מרשעת (ספר)		295
10	Finnish (fi) Noita: Lännen ilkeän noidan elämä ja teot		74

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wicked (Maguire novel)		560
2	German (de) Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz (Roman)		102
3	Italian (it) Strega - Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta		24
4	Hebrew (he) מרשעת (ספר)		22
5	French (fr) Wicked : La Véritable Histoire de la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest		20
6	Spanish (es) Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala		18
7	Catalan (ca) Wicked (novel·la)		12
8	Chinese (zh) 女巫前傳		8
9	Finnish (fi) Noita: Lännen ilkeän noidan elämä ja teot		6
10	Portuguese (pt) Maligna (romance de Gregory Maguire)		4

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	German (de) Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz (Roman)		3
2	Spanish (es) Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala		3
3	Arabic (ar) ويكيد (رواية ماجواير)		1
4	Hebrew (he) מרשעת (ספר)		1
5	Italian (it) Strega - Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta		1
6	Simple English (simple) Wicked (book)		1
7	Catalan (ca) Wicked (novel·la)		0
8	English (en) Wicked (Maguire novel)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Noita: Lännen ilkeän noidan elämä ja teot		0
10	French (fr) Wicked : La Véritable Histoire de la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest		0

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

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