The Tell-Tale Heart

Quality:

The Tell-Tale Heart - short story by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is the 433^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 389^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Tell-Tale Heart” in English Wikipedia has 48.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.56 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 389^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 433^rd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Tell-Tale Heart” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Tell-Tale Heart”, its content was written by 556 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1177 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Tell-Tale Heart is on the 389^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 433^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 269 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1993 in February 2020
• Global: #8232 in November 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4855 in October 2023
• Global: #7630 in October 2023

There are 32 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	Russian (ru) Сердце-обличитель		72.0377
2	Spanish (es) El corazón delator		53.1891
3	English (en) The Tell-Tale Heart		48.5903
4	Turkish (tr) Gammaz Yürek		44.1054
5	Simple English (simple) The Tell-Tale Heart		42.6754
6	Romanian (ro) Inima care-și spune taina		36.9225
7	Greek (el) Μαρτυριάρα καρδιά		34.9959
8	Serbian (sr) Издајничко срце		34.0235
9	Polish (pl) Serce oskarżycielem		33.6359
10	Japanese (ja) 告げ口心臓		30.4233

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Tell-Tale Heart		6 450 726
2	Spanish (es) El corazón delator		1 980 110
3	Italian (it) Il cuore rivelatore		448 199
4	German (de) Das verräterische Herz		395 117
5	French (fr) Le Cœur révélateur		379 995
6	Russian (ru) Сердце-обличитель		280 524
7	Simple English (simple) The Tell-Tale Heart		148 171
8	Chinese (zh) 告密的心		127 842
9	Dutch (nl) The Tell-Tale Heart		72 729
10	Portuguese (pt) The Tell-Tale Heart		67 019

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 Tell-Tale Heart		17 311
2	Spanish (es) El corazón delator		15 472
3	Portuguese (pt) The Tell-Tale Heart		1 547
4	Simple English (simple) The Tell-Tale Heart		1 137
5	Italian (it) Il cuore rivelatore		1 070
6	French (fr) Le Cœur révélateur		907
7	German (de) Das verräterische Herz		840
8	Russian (ru) Сердце-обличитель		799
9	Japanese (ja) 告げ口心臓		635
10	Chinese (zh) 告密的心		398

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Tell-Tale Heart		556
2	German (de) Das verräterische Herz		84
3	Spanish (es) El corazón delator		81
4	French (fr) Le Cœur révélateur		78
5	Italian (it) Il cuore rivelatore		64
6	Russian (ru) Сердце-обличитель		55
7	Simple English (simple) The Tell-Tale Heart		39
8	Dutch (nl) The Tell-Tale Heart		27
9	Polish (pl) Serce oskarżycielem		19
10	Swedish (sv) Det skvallrande hjärtat		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	English (en) The Tell-Tale Heart		4
2	Greek (el) Μαρτυριάρα καρδιά		1
3	French (fr) Le Cœur révélateur		1
4	Hebrew (he) הלב המסגיר		1
5	Japanese (ja) 告げ口心臓		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Серце виказало		1
7	Arabic (ar) القلب الواشي		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Satqın ürək (hekayə)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Издайническото сърце		0
10	Catalan (ca) El cor delator		0

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

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