Shining (Roman)

Quality:

The Shining - 1977 novel by Stephen King. This book is the 276^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 563^rd most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Shining (Roman)” in German Wikipedia has 14 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 563^rd most popular in books in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 276^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Shining (Roman)”, its content was written by 80 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1508 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Shining is on the 563^rd place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 276^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 114 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2744 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #4965 in May 2015
• Global: #759 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #11276 in September 2017
• Global: #2188 in November 2019

There are 30 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) Сияние (роман)		77.416
2	English (en) The Shining (novel)		49.2091
3	Bulgarian (bg) Сияние (роман)		35.4025
4	Turkish (tr) Medyum (roman)		35.0762
5	Spanish (es) El resplandor (novela)		29.6941
6	French (fr) Shining, l'enfant lumière		29.3228
7	Chinese (zh) 闪灵 (小说)		27.9336
8	Belarusian (be) Ззянне (раман)		26.9099
9	Serbian (sr) Исијавање (роман)		26.8365
10	Armenian (hy) Փայլատակում (վեպ)		26.5578

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shining (novel)		9 190 221
2	Spanish (es) El resplandor (novela)		1 609 533
3	Russian (ru) Сияние (роман)		1 391 872
4	Italian (it) Shining (romanzo)		674 531
5	French (fr) Shining, l'enfant lumière		670 155
6	German (de) Shining (Roman)		649 103
7	Polish (pl) Lśnienie (powieść)		384 910
8	Japanese (ja) シャイニング (小説)		270 401
9	Finnish (fi) Hohto		196 976
10	Chinese (zh) 闪灵 (小说)		165 735

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 Shining (novel)		26 427
2	Russian (ru) Сияние (роман)		4 678
3	Spanish (es) El resplandor (novela)		2 730
4	French (fr) Shining, l'enfant lumière		2 121
5	Italian (it) Shining (romanzo)		1 746
6	German (de) Shining (Roman)		1 584
7	Japanese (ja) シャイニング (小説)		1 522
8	Polish (pl) Lśnienie (powieść)		646
9	Chinese (zh) 闪灵 (小说)		606
10	Portuguese (pt) The Shining (romance)		527

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Shining (novel)		529
2	French (fr) Shining, l'enfant lumière		125
3	Italian (it) Shining (romanzo)		108
4	Russian (ru) Сияние (роман)		88
5	Spanish (es) El resplandor (novela)		81
6	German (de) Shining (Roman)		80
7	Finnish (fi) Hohto		65
8	Hungarian (hu) A ragyogás		43
9	Hebrew (he) הניצוץ		42
10	Chinese (zh) 闪灵 (小说)		40

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 Shining (novel)		5
2	Arabic (ar) البريق (رواية)		1
3	Belarusian (be) Ззянне (раман)		1
4	French (fr) Shining, l'enfant lumière		1
5	Japanese (ja) シャイニング (小説)		1
6	Romanian (ro) Strălucirea (roman)		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Сияние (роман)		0
8	Czech (cs) Osvícení (kniha)		0
9	Danish (da) Ondskabens hotel		0
10	German (de) Shining (Roman)		0

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

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