The Crocodile (short story)

The Crocodile - 1865 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Article “The Crocodile (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 5.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Crocodile (short story)”, its content was written by 31 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 54 times in English Wikipedia and cited 459 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #76684 in July 2015
• Global: #96389 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #459416 in July 2013
• Global: #145085 in April 2009

There are 13 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	Catalan (ca) El cocodril (conte)		30.2414
2	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		26.4408
3	Greek (el) Ο κροκόδειλος		21.0855
4	German (de) Das Krokodil		18.7867
5	Russian (ru) Крокодил (рассказ)		15.4634
6	Korean (ko) 악어 (소설)		14.8817
7	Armenian (hy) Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)		14.8626
8	Spanish (es) El cocodrilo		14.2872
9	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		7.6753
10	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		5.3726

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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 Crocodile (short story)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		106 639
2	Russian (ru) Крокодил (рассказ)		85 125
3	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		27 770
4	German (de) Das Krokodil		27 464
5	Portuguese (pt) O Crocodilo		25 253
6	Spanish (es) El cocodrilo		15 302
7	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		12 010
8	Turkish (tr) Timsah (öykü)		4 042
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Krokodil (Dostojevski)		1 062
10	Greek (el) Ο κροκόδειλος		778

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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 Crocodile (short story)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		507
2	Russian (ru) Крокодил (рассказ)		367
3	Portuguese (pt) O Crocodilo		157
4	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		144
5	Spanish (es) El cocodrilo		115
6	German (de) Das Krokodil		105
7	Greek (el) Ο κροκόδειλος		54
8	Turkish (tr) Timsah (öykü)		50
9	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		39
10	Armenian (hy) Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)		17

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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 Crocodile (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		35
2	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		31
3	German (de) Das Krokodil		22
4	Russian (ru) Крокодил (рассказ)		19
5	Portuguese (pt) O Crocodilo		13
6	Spanish (es) El cocodrilo		8
7	Armenian (hy) Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)		5
8	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		4
9	Catalan (ca) El cocodril (conte)		4
10	Turkish (tr) Timsah (öykü)		4

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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 Crocodile (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		0
2	Catalan (ca) El cocodril (conte)		0
3	German (de) Das Krokodil		0
4	Greek (el) Ο κροκόδειλος		0
5	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		0
6	Spanish (es) El cocodrilo		0
7	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		0
8	Armenian (hy) Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)		0
9	Korean (ko) 악어 (소설)		0
10	Portuguese (pt) O Crocodilo		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 Crocodile (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Крокодил (рассказ)		119
2	French (fr) Le Crocodile (nouvelle)		84
3	English (en) The Crocodile (short story)		54
4	German (de) Das Krokodil		49
5	Portuguese (pt) O Crocodilo		41
6	Arabic (ar) التمساح (قصة قصيرة)		38
7	Turkish (tr) Timsah (öykü)		26
8	Greek (el) Ο κροκόδειλος		22
9	Catalan (ca) El cocodril (conte)		16
10	Armenian (hy) Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التمساح (قصة قصيرة)
ca	Catalan El cocodril (conte)
de	German Das Krokodil
el	Greek Ο κροκόδειλος
en	English The Crocodile (short story)
es	Spanish El cocodrilo
fr	French Le Crocodile (nouvelle)
hy	Armenian Կոկորդիլոսը (պատմվածք)
ko	Korean 악어 (소설)
pt	Portuguese O Crocodilo
ru	Russian Крокодил (рассказ)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Krokodil (Dostojevski)
tr	Turkish Timsah (öykü)

Best Rank

English: #459416 07.2013

Global: #145085 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #76684 07.2015

Global: #96389 12.2013

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