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Preface

Quality:

Preface - introduction to a book or other literary work by the author. Article “Preface” in English Wikipedia has 18 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Preface” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Preface”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 414 times in English Wikipedia and cited 940 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #70867 in August 2010
  • Global: #85559 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #56026 in June 2012
  • Global: #63692 in June 2013

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
25.6706
2English (en)
Preface
18.0129
3Persian (fa)
پیش‌گفتار(کتاب)
17.7907
4Urdu (ur)
دیباچہ
16.2314
5Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
15.2533
6Indonesian (id)
Prakata
13.5075
7Azerbaijani (az)
Müqəddimə
11.2882
8Simple English (simple)
Preface
10.313
9Korean (ko)
추천서문
9.7556
10Italian (it)
Prefazione
8.124
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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 "Preface" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preface
1 607 081
2Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
614 551
3Italian (it)
Prefazione
237 600
4French (fr)
Avant-propos
191 184
5Tamil (ta)
முன்னுரை
62 882
6Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
23 882
7Korean (ko)
추천서문
18 198
8Urdu (ur)
دیباچہ
11 973
9Indonesian (id)
Prakata
7 477
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tựa (văn học)
6 459
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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 "Preface" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Preface
4 462
2Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
559
3Italian (it)
Prefazione
343
4French (fr)
Avant-propos
182
5Tamil (ta)
முன்னுரை
163
6Thai (th)
คำนำ
160
7Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
59
8Korean (ko)
추천서문
51
9Urdu (ur)
دیباچہ
47
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tựa (văn học)
38
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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 "Preface" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Preface
89
2Italian (it)
Prefazione
28
3Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
19
4French (fr)
Avant-propos
15
5Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
8
6Tamil (ta)
முன்னுரை
7
7Korean (ko)
추천서문
4
8Urdu (ur)
دیباچہ
2
9Vietnamese (vi)
Tựa (văn học)
2
10Min Nan (zhminnan)
Thâu-sū
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 "Preface" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
2
2Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
1
3English (en)
Preface
1
4Azerbaijani (az)
Müqəddimə
0
5Persian (fa)
پیش‌گفتار(کتاب)
0
6French (fr)
Avant-propos
0
7Indonesian (id)
Prakata
0
8Italian (it)
Prefazione
0
9Korean (ko)
추천서문
0
10Simple English (simple)
Preface
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 "Preface" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Preface
414
2Italian (it)
Prefazione
209
3Spanish (es)
Prefacio (literatura)
153
4French (fr)
Avant-propos
58
5Arabic (ar)
مقدمة كتاب
25
6Tamil (ta)
முன்னுரை
24
7Azerbaijani (az)
Müqəddimə
11
8Indonesian (id)
Prakata
11
9Urdu (ur)
دیباچہ
9
10Korean (ko)
추천서문
8
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مقدمة كتاب
azAzerbaijani
Müqəddimə
enEnglish
Preface
esSpanish
Prefacio (literatura)
faPersian
پیش‌گفتار(کتاب)
frFrench
Avant-propos
idIndonesian
Prakata
itItalian
Prefazione
koKorean
추천서문
simpleSimple English
Preface
taTamil
முன்னுரை
thThai
คำนำ
urUrdu
دیباچہ
viVietnamese
Tựa (văn học)
zhminnanMin Nan
Thâu-sū

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#56026
06.2012
Global:
#63692
06.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#70867
08.2010
Global:
#85559
06.2013

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Preface from Wikipedia articles about Foreword, Prologue, Belle Gibson, Orphic hymns and Oriana Fallaci. Whereas reading the article about Preface people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Foreword, Prologue, Introduction, Preamble and Preface.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zhminnan: Thâu-sū
simple: Preface

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