East African shilling

East African shilling - currency issued for use in British controlled areas in East Africa from 1921 until 1969. Article “East African shilling” in English Wikipedia has 53.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.84 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “East African shilling” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “East African shilling”, its content was written by 83 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in English Wikipedia and cited 621 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #64381 in December 2023
• Global: #63398 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #196870 in April 2019
• Global: #295788 in April 2019

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) East African shilling		53.9017
2	Indonesian (id) Shilling Afrika Timur		48.3599
3	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		35.1567
4	Arabic (ar) شلن شرق أفريقيا		32.8242
5	Greek (el) Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής		23.1484
6	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		21.7758
7	Russian (ru) Восточноафриканский шиллинг		17.184
8	Catalan (ca) Xíling de l'Àfrica Oriental		16.5114
9	Persian (fa) شیلینگ آفریقای شرقی		16.1076
10	French (fr) Shilling est-africain		12.3254

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

The most popular language versions of the article "East African shilling" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) East African shilling		521 150
2	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		36 893
3	Russian (ru) Восточноафриканский шиллинг		36 567
4	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		26 058
5	French (fr) Shilling est-africain		9 575
6	Chinese (zh) 東非先令		8 084
7	Czech (cs) Východoafrický šilink		4 803
8	Swedish (sv) Östafrikansk shilling		4 328
9	Greek (el) Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής		3 765
10	Persian (fa) شیلینگ آفریقای شرقی		3 065

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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 "East African shilling" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) East African shilling		2 131
2	Russian (ru) Восточноафриканский шиллинг		181
3	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		166
4	Arabic (ar) شلن شرق أفريقيا		102
5	Chinese (zh) 東非先令		98
6	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		94
7	French (fr) Shilling est-africain		94
8	Dutch (nl) Oost-Afrikaanse shilling		30
9	Portuguese (pt) Xelim da África Oriental		30
10	Indonesian (id) Shilling Afrika Timur		26

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) East African shilling		83
2	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		48
3	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		11
4	French (fr) Shilling est-africain		11
5	Swedish (sv) Östafrikansk shilling		11
6	Catalan (ca) Xíling de l'Àfrica Oriental		8
7	Czech (cs) Východoafrický šilink		7
8	Russian (ru) Восточноафриканский шиллинг		7
9	Ukrainian (uk) Східноафриканський шилінг		7
10	Greek (el) Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής		6

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

Language versions of the article "East African shilling" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) East African shilling		2
2	Portuguese (pt) Xelim da África Oriental		1
3	Arabic (ar) شلن شرق أفريقيا		0
4	Catalan (ca) Xíling de l'Àfrica Oriental		0
5	Czech (cs) Východoafrický šilink		0
6	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		0
7	Greek (el) Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής		0
8	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		0
9	Persian (fa) شیلینگ آفریقای شرقی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Itä-Afrikan šillinki		0

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

Language versions of the article "East African shilling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) East African shilling		114
2	Russian (ru) Восточноафриканский шиллинг		102
3	French (fr) Shilling est-africain		94
4	Ukrainian (uk) Східноафриканський шилінг		79
5	Spanish (es) Chelín de África Oriental		27
6	Czech (cs) Východoafrický šilink		26
7	German (de) Ostafrikanischer Schilling		23
8	Arabic (ar) شلن شرق أفريقيا		21
9	Greek (el) Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής		20
10	Chinese (zh) 東非先令		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شلن شرق أفريقيا
ca	Catalan Xíling de l'Àfrica Oriental
cs	Czech Východoafrický šilink
de	German Ostafrikanischer Schilling
el	Greek Σελίνι Ανατολικής Αφρικής
en	English East African shilling
es	Spanish Chelín de África Oriental
fa	Persian شیلینگ آفریقای شرقی
fi	Finnish Itä-Afrikan šillinki
fr	French Shilling est-africain
hr	Croatian Istočnoafrički šiling
id	Indonesian Shilling Afrika Timur
nl	Dutch Oost-Afrikaanse shilling
pt	Portuguese Xelim da África Oriental
ru	Russian Восточноафриканский шиллинг
sv	Swedish Östafrikansk shilling
uk	Ukrainian Східноафриканський шилінг
zh	Chinese 東非先令

Best Rank

English: #196870 04.2019

Global: #295788 04.2019

Best Rank

English: #64381 12.2023

Global: #63398 01.2017

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