Shiva

Quality:

Shiva - one of the principal deities of Hinduism. Article “Shiva” in German Wikipedia has 39.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 6527^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1513^th most popular in all topics.

The 2134^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4994^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4770^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Shiva”, its content was written by 271 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 4979 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2134^th place).

The article is cited 1008 times in German Wikipedia and cited 30804 times in all languages (5522^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1806 in October 2004
• Global: #190 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1369 in September 2010
• Global: #544 in February 2023

There are 55 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, 2026 (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) Shiva		100
2	Japanese (ja) シヴァ		100
3	Korean (ko) 시바		100
4	Italian (it) Siva (divinità)		90.5811
5	Malay (ms) Shiva		83.5897
6	Russian (ru) Шива		72.4791
7	Tamil (ta) சிவன்		69.2336
8	Polish (pl) Śiwa		67.9393
9	Latin (la) Sivus		66.7256
10	Spanish (es) Shiva		64.7558

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shiva		38 848 974
2	Spanish (es) Shiva		5 137 874
3	Russian (ru) Шива		4 097 466
4	Japanese (ja) シヴァ		4 081 007
5	French (fr) Shiva		3 493 347
6	German (de) Shiva		2 984 726
7	Hindi (hi) शिव		2 718 411
8	Chinese (zh) 湿婆		2 083 507
9	Portuguese (pt) Xiva		2 012 919
10	Italian (it) Siva (divinità)		1 901 653

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) Shiva		85 629
2	Japanese (ja) シヴァ		9 471
3	Russian (ru) Шива		9 033
4	French (fr) Shiva		7 528
5	Spanish (es) Shiva		7 025
6	German (de) Shiva		6 053
7	Chinese (zh) 湿婆		5 613
8	Italian (it) Siva (divinità)		3 566
9	Persian (fa) شیوا		2 543
10	Portuguese (pt) Xiva		2 213

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shiva		1 919
2	German (de) Shiva		271
3	French (fr) Shiva		271
4	Hindi (hi) शिव		221
5	Italian (it) Siva (divinità)		195
6	Russian (ru) Шива		145
7	Spanish (es) Shiva		138
8	Dutch (nl) Shiva		118
9	Norwegian (no) Shiva		101
10	Portuguese (pt) Xiva		93

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) Shiva		8
2	Korean (ko) 시바		3
3	Simple English (simple) Shiva		3
4	Spanish (es) Shiva		2
5	French (fr) Shiva		2
6	Galician (gl) Shiva		2
7	Japanese (ja) シヴァ		2
8	Chinese (zh) 湿婆		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şiva		1
10	Catalan (ca) Xiva (hinduisme)		1

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

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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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information