Rock shelter

Rock shelter - shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. Article “Rock shelter” in English Wikipedia has 33 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.74 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Rock shelter”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 378 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 943 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2981 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13947 in February 2003
• Global: #15147 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #227455 in August 2010
• Global: #200134 in April 2015

There are 21 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	Norwegian (no) Heller		54.8839
2	English (en) Rock shelter		32.9759
3	German (de) Abri		29.3752
4	Italian (it) Riparo sotto roccia		25.1918
5	Catalan (ca) Balma		25.1709
6	Hindi (hi) शैलाश्रय		24.7149
7	Basque (eu) Harpe		22.3487
8	French (fr) Abri sous roche		19.9286
9	Chinese (zh) 岩棚		17.5163
10	Japanese (ja) 岩陰遺跡		13.6301

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Rock shelter" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock shelter		393 957
2	German (de) Abri		215 513
3	Spanish (es) Abrigo rocoso		116 275
4	French (fr) Abri sous roche		76 654
5	Norwegian (no) Heller		63 830
6	Japanese (ja) 岩陰遺跡		53 178
7	Catalan (ca) Balma		44 948
8	Dutch (nl) Abri (rotswoning)		24 545
9	Polish (pl) Koleba skalna		4 677
10	Serbian (sr) Окапина		4 370

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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 "Rock shelter" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock shelter		1 724
2	German (de) Abri		1 074
3	French (fr) Abri sous roche		223
4	Spanish (es) Abrigo rocoso		213
5	Japanese (ja) 岩陰遺跡		185
6	Catalan (ca) Balma		174
7	Norwegian (no) Heller		154
8	Polish (pl) Koleba skalna		76
9	Simple English (simple) Rock shelter		71
10	Dutch (nl) Abri (rotswoning)		65

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Abri		108
2	English (en) Rock shelter		68
3	French (fr) Abri sous roche		42
4	Norwegian (no) Heller		25
5	Japanese (ja) 岩陰遺跡		23
6	Dutch (nl) Abri (rotswoning)		19
7	Spanish (es) Abrigo rocoso		18
8	Catalan (ca) Balma		17
9	Polish (pl) Koleba skalna		14
10	Basque (eu) Harpe		7

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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 "Rock shelter" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Riparo sotto roccia		3
2	Indonesian (id) Abris sous roche		1
3	Arabic (ar) مأوى صخري		0
4	Catalan (ca) Balma		0
5	German (de) Abri		0
6	English (en) Rock shelter		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Rokŝirmejo		0
8	Spanish (es) Abrigo rocoso		0
9	Basque (eu) Harpe		0
10	Persian (fa) پناهگاه سنگی		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 "Rock shelter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rock shelter		943
2	French (fr) Abri sous roche		714
3	German (de) Abri		424
4	Catalan (ca) Balma		253
5	Persian (fa) پناهگاه سنگی		131
6	Japanese (ja) 岩陰遺跡		98
7	Spanish (es) Abrigo rocoso		95
8	Dutch (nl) Abri (rotswoning)		80
9	Norwegian (no) Heller		53
10	Basque (eu) Harpe		40

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مأوى صخري
ca	Catalan Balma
de	German Abri
en	English Rock shelter
eo	Esperanto Rokŝirmejo
es	Spanish Abrigo rocoso
eu	Basque Harpe
fa	Persian پناهگاه سنگی
fr	French Abri sous roche
hi	Hindi शैलाश्रय
id	Indonesian Abris sous roche
it	Italian Riparo sotto roccia
ja	Japanese 岩陰遺跡
nl	Dutch Abri (rotswoning)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Heller
no	Norwegian Heller
pl	Polish Koleba skalna
simple	Simple English Rock shelter
sk	Slovak Abri
sr	Serbian Окапина
zh	Chinese 岩棚

Best Rank

English: #227455 08.2010

Global: #200134 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #13947 02.2003

Global: #15147 08.2012

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