Shading

Shading - depicting depth through varying levels of darkness. Article “Shading” in English Wikipedia has 47.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.48 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.

Since the creation of article “Shading”, its content was written by 138 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 306 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 303 times in English Wikipedia and cited 797 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12907 in August 2003
• Global: #5414 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #88116 in November 2013
• Global: #127450 in July 2009

There are 19 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) Shading		47.0915
2	Estonian (et) Varjutamine		43.563
3	Chinese (zh) 着色		39.7039
4	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		31.9622
5	German (de) Shading		28.0643
6	Finnish (fi) Varjostus		25.7651
7	Thai (th) การให้แสงเงา		25.0969
8	Korean (ko) 셰이딩		22.3268
9	Portuguese (pt) Sombreamento		22.0798
10	Russian (ru) Шэйдинг		20.5379

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shading		1 401 437
2	Japanese (ja) シェーディング		202 509
3	German (de) Shading		98 467
4	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		60 048
5	Polish (pl) Cieniowanie płaskie		40 874
6	Korean (ko) 셰이딩		36 358
7	Spanish (es) Sombreado plano		34 542
8	Chinese (zh) 着色		26 462
9	French (fr) Ombrage plat		26 165
10	Russian (ru) Шэйдинг		23 218

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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 "Shading" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shading		1 555
2	Russian (ru) Шэйдинг		364
3	Japanese (ja) シェーディング		331
4	Chinese (zh) 着色		140
5	French (fr) Ombrage plat		63
6	German (de) Shading		49
7	Polish (pl) Cieniowanie płaskie		45
8	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		44
9	Korean (ko) 셰이딩		26
10	Portuguese (pt) Sombreamento		22

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shading		138
2	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		36
3	German (de) Shading		26
4	French (fr) Ombrage plat		15
5	Russian (ru) Шэйдинг		12
6	Japanese (ja) シェーディング		11
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шейдинг		11
8	Korean (ko) 셰이딩		10
9	Chinese (zh) 着色		10
10	Polish (pl) Cieniowanie płaskie		9

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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 "Shading" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		1
2	German (de) Shading		0
3	English (en) Shading		0
4	Spanish (es) Sombreado plano		0
5	Estonian (et) Varjutamine		0
6	Persian (fa) سایه‌زنی		0
7	Finnish (fi) Varjostus		0
8	French (fr) Ombrage plat		0
9	Indonesian (id) Pencorakan		0
10	Japanese (ja) シェーディング		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 "Shading" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shading		303
2	Japanese (ja) シェーディング		94
3	Korean (ko) 셰이딩		91
4	Italian (it) Ombreggiatura		66
5	Chinese (zh) 着色		48
6	German (de) Shading		34
7	French (fr) Ombrage plat		26
8	Spanish (es) Sombreado plano		24
9	Portuguese (pt) Sombreamento		21
10	Ukrainian (uk) Шейдинг		19

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#	Language	Value
de	German Shading
en	English Shading
es	Spanish Sombreado plano
et	Estonian Varjutamine
fa	Persian سایه‌زنی
fi	Finnish Varjostus
fr	French Ombrage plat
id	Indonesian Pencorakan
it	Italian Ombreggiatura
ja	Japanese シェーディング
ko	Korean 셰이딩
pl	Polish Cieniowanie płaskie
pt	Portuguese Sombreamento
ru	Russian Шэйдинг
th	Thai การให้แสงเงา
tr	Turkish Gölgelendirme
uk	Ukrainian Шейдинг
zh	Chinese 着色
zhminnan	Min Nan Shading

Best Rank

English: #88116 11.2013

Global: #127450 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #12907 08.2003

Global: #5414 08.2003

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