Shaka (Zeichen)

Shaka sign - hand gesture associated with Hawaii and surf culture. Article “Shaka (Zeichen)” in German Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 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 “Shaka (Zeichen)”, its content was written by 82 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in German Wikipedia and cited 754 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3959 in January 2016
• Global: #17795 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #5456 in August 2019
• Global: #16985 in July 2018

There are 18 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) Shaka sign		60.0328
2	Chinese (zh) 沙卡手勢		27.0442
3	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		26.4568
4	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		22.1352
5	Dutch (nl) Shaka (teken)		21.8027
6	Catalan (ca) Signe Shaka		18.7027
7	Indonesian (id) Shaka (isyarat)		18.4257
8	Spanish (es) Señal de shaka		15.5434
9	Russian (ru) Джамбо (жест)		13.809
10	Hebrew (he) סימן השאקה		13.5427

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shaka (Zeichen)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaka sign		5 868 096
2	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		1 424 283
3	Russian (ru) Джамбо (жест)		1 237 852
4	Spanish (es) Señal de shaka		743 890
5	Portuguese (pt) Hang loose		424 993
6	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		322 781
7	Polish (pl) Shaka (gest)		292 323
8	Italian (it) Segno dello Shaka		196 788
9	Indonesian (id) Shaka (isyarat)		195 468
10	Chinese (zh) 沙卡手勢		106 473

More...

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 "Shaka (Zeichen)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaka sign		20 362
2	Russian (ru) Джамбо (жест)		12 538
3	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		3 785
4	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		2 020
5	Spanish (es) Señal de shaka		1 786
6	Portuguese (pt) Hang loose		1 561
7	Italian (it) Segno dello Shaka		1 117
8	Ukrainian (uk) Джамбо (жест)		668
9	Indonesian (id) Shaka (isyarat)		624
10	Chinese (zh) 沙卡手勢		501

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Shaka (Zeichen)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaka sign		320
2	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		82
3	Russian (ru) Джамбо (жест)		65
4	Spanish (es) Señal de shaka		33
5	Portuguese (pt) Hang loose		29
6	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		27
7	Hebrew (he) סימן השאקה		15
8	Italian (it) Segno dello Shaka		15
9	Polish (pl) Shaka (gest)		10
10	Czech (cs) Shaka (gesto)		9

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Shaka (Zeichen)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Shaka (teken)		2
2	Catalan (ca) Signe Shaka		0
3	Czech (cs) Shaka (gesto)		0
4	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		0
5	English (en) Shaka sign		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Ŝaka signo		0
7	Spanish (es) Señal de shaka		0
8	Basque (eu) Shaka (keinua)		0
9	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		0
10	Hebrew (he) סימן השאקה		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Shaka (Zeichen)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shaka sign		318
2	French (fr) Shaka (signe)		103
3	Russian (ru) Джамбо (жест)		63
4	Italian (it) Segno dello Shaka		61
5	Chinese (zh) 沙卡手勢		55
6	Portuguese (pt) Hang loose		42
7	Basque (eu) Shaka (keinua)		34
8	Japanese (ja) シャカ・サイン		30
9	Indonesian (id) Shaka (isyarat)		24
10	German (de) Shaka (Zeichen)		7

More...

#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Signe Shaka
cs	Czech Shaka (gesto)
de	German Shaka (Zeichen)
en	English Shaka sign
eo	Esperanto Ŝaka signo
es	Spanish Señal de shaka
eu	Basque Shaka (keinua)
fr	French Shaka (signe)
he	Hebrew סימן השאקה
id	Indonesian Shaka (isyarat)
it	Italian Segno dello Shaka
ja	Japanese シャカ・サイン
nl	Dutch Shaka (teken)
pl	Polish Shaka (gest)
pt	Portuguese Hang loose
ru	Russian Джамбо (жест)
uk	Ukrainian Джамбо (жест)
zh	Chinese 沙卡手勢

Best Rank

German: #5456 08.2019

Global: #16985 07.2018

Best Rank

German: #3959 01.2016

Global: #17795 11.2023

On 21 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Alysa Liu, Eric Dane, 2026 Winter Olympics, Rebecca Gayheart, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Wuthering Heights, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, John F. Kennedy Jr..

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Eric Dane, Franziska Preuß, Jeffrey Epstein, Medaillenspiegel der Olympischen Winterspiele 2026, Laura Nolte, Dorothea Wierer, Andreas Hofer, Alysa Liu, Olympische Winterspiele 2026, Mariama Jamanka.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information