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Semicha

Quality:

Semikhah - ordination of a rabbi or cantor. Article “Semicha” in German Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Semicha”, its content was written by 29 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 356 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 277 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2808 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #4842 in September 2022
  • Global: #21311 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #202368 in October 2017
  • Global: #171459 in November 2015

There are 9 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
1English (en)
Semikhah
60.9934
2Italian (it)
Semikhah
41.5678
3French (fr)
Semikha
28.4292
4Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
25.7872
5Russian (ru)
Смиха
25.551
6Polish (pl)
Smicha
22.8252
7German (de)
Semicha
18.4791
8Czech (cs)
Smicha
10.8063
9Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
3.2511
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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 "Semicha" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Semikhah
512 368
2Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
114 297
3Polish (pl)
Smicha
53 490
4German (de)
Semicha
38 309
5French (fr)
Semikha
31 684
6Russian (ru)
Смиха
16 429
7Italian (it)
Semikhah
16 336
8Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
5 617
9Czech (cs)
Smicha
858
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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 "Semicha" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Semikhah
3 813
2Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
525
3Polish (pl)
Smicha
286
4German (de)
Semicha
178
5Russian (ru)
Смиха
160
6French (fr)
Semikha
157
7Italian (it)
Semikhah
105
8Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
35
9Czech (cs)
Smicha
31
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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 "Semicha" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Semikhah
121
2Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
101
3French (fr)
Semikha
46
4German (de)
Semicha
29
5Italian (it)
Semikhah
23
6Polish (pl)
Smicha
15
7Russian (ru)
Смиха
11
8Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
6
9Czech (cs)
Smicha
4
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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 "Semicha" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Semikhah
2
2Czech (cs)
Smicha
0
3German (de)
Semicha
0
4French (fr)
Semikha
0
5Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
0
6Italian (it)
Semikhah
0
7Polish (pl)
Smicha
0
8Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
0
9Russian (ru)
Смиха
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 "Semicha" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Hebrew (he)
סמיכה לרבנות
1 408
2English (en)
Semikhah
798
3German (de)
Semicha
277
4French (fr)
Semikha
115
5Polish (pl)
Smicha
67
6Russian (ru)
Смиха
66
7Italian (it)
Semikhah
51
8Czech (cs)
Smicha
15
9Portuguese (pt)
Semichá
11
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Global:
Authors in June 2025:
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Global:
Registered authors in all years:
German:
Global:
Citations:
German:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Smicha
deGerman
Semicha
enEnglish
Semikhah
frFrench
Semikha
heHebrew
סמיכה לרבנות
itItalian
Semikhah
plPolish
Smicha
ptPortuguese
Semichá
ruRussian
Смиха

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#202368
10.2017
Global:
#171459
11.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#4842
09.2022
Global:
#21311
11.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Semikhah from Wikipedia articles about Rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, David Draiman, Laying on of hands and Yeshiva. Whereas reading the article about Semikhah people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rabbi, Ordination, Oral Torah, 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin and Darshanim ordination.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

pl: Smicha
cs: Smicha

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About WikiRank

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