History of sundials

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History of sundials

Quality:

History of sundials - Wikimedia history article. Article “History of sundials” in English Wikipedia has 56.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “History of sundials” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of sundials”, its content was written by 116 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 172 times in English Wikipedia and cited 251 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #20827 in May 2019
  • Global: #46017 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #138672 in October 2017
  • Global: #164521 in April 2025

There are 6 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
1Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
87.9051
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
78.6381
3Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
75.3816
4English (en)
History of sundials
56.2302
5Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
44.4198
6Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
22.1275
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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 "History of sundials" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of sundials
617 174
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
85 762
3Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
11 960
4Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
7 834
5Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
5 362
6Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
523
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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 "History of sundials" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of sundials
2 836
2Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
272
3Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
177
4Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
128
5Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
36
6Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
4
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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 "History of sundials" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of sundials
116
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
45
3Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
11
4Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
4
5Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
3
6Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
2
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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 "History of sundials" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of sundials
1
2Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
1
3Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
0
4Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
0
5Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
0
6Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
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 "History of sundials" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
History of sundials
172
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la gnomónica
58
3Chinese (zh)
日晷的歷史
15
4Russian (ru)
История солнечных часов
5
5Basque (eu)
Gnomonikaren historia
1
6Arabic (ar)
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ المزاول الشمسية
enEnglish
History of sundials
esSpanish
Historia de la gnomónica
euBasque
Gnomonikaren historia
ruRussian
История солнечных часов
zhChinese
日晷的歷史

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#138672
10.2017
Global:
#164521
04.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#20827
05.2019
Global:
#46017
10.2014

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History of sundials from Wikipedia articles about Sundial, ISO 8601, History of timekeeping devices, Hour and Egyptian calendar. Whereas reading the article about History of sundials people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sundial, Analemmatic sundial, Gnomon, Canonical sundial and Clock.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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