Shadow play

Shadow play - ancient form of entertainment using flat articulated figures. Article “Shadow play” in English Wikipedia has 94.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 106 references and 17 sections.

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 “Shadow play” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shadow play”, its content was written by 296 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 624 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2290 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17725 in December 2021
• Global: #4614 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18488 in August 2019
• Global: #31568 in August 2019

There are 31 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) Shadow play		94.055
2	Galician (gl) Sombras chinesas		74.4636
3	Hebrew (he) תיאטרון צלליות		55.469
4	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		54.7902
5	Estonian (et) Varjuteater		47.4147
6	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		46.6231
7	Catalan (ca) Ombres xineses		42.9155
8	French (fr) Théâtre d'ombres		32.8645
9	Norwegian (no) Skyggespill		29.1531
10	Dutch (nl) Schimmenspel		28.7044

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow play		2 020 579
2	Turkish (tr) Gölge oyunu		679 895
3	Portuguese (pt) Teatro de sombras		656 093
4	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		610 961
5	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		392 897
6	French (fr) Théâtre d'ombres		305 844
7	Japanese (ja) 影絵		289 686
8	Russian (ru) Театр теней		261 488
9	German (de) Schattenspiel		245 744
10	Arabic (ar) خيال الظل		115 496

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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 "Shadow play" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shadow play		7 709
2	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		1 644
3	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		845
4	French (fr) Théâtre d'ombres		759
5	Japanese (ja) 影絵		633
6	Russian (ru) Театр теней		611
7	Portuguese (pt) Teatro de sombras		585
8	Turkish (tr) Gölge oyunu		550
9	German (de) Schattenspiel		439
10	Arabic (ar) خيال الظل		297

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shadow play		296
2	French (fr) Théâtre d'ombres		109
3	German (de) Schattenspiel		100
4	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		59
5	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		54
6	Turkish (tr) Gölge oyunu		51
7	Italian (it) Teatro d'ombre		48
8	Russian (ru) Театр теней		48
9	Japanese (ja) 影絵		44
10	Dutch (nl) Schimmenspel		43

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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 "Shadow play" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Θέατρο σκιών		1
2	English (en) Shadow play		1
3	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		1
4	Arabic (ar) خيال الظل		0
5	Catalan (ca) Ombres xineses		0
6	German (de) Schattenspiel		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Ombroludo		0
8	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		0
9	Estonian (et) Varjuteater		0
10	Basque (eu) Itzal-antzerki		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 "Shadow play" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shadow play		624
2	Japanese (ja) 影絵		275
3	Chinese (zh) 皮影戲		270
4	French (fr) Théâtre d'ombres		188
5	German (de) Schattenspiel		146
6	Russian (ru) Театр теней		119
7	Spanish (es) Sombras chinescas		94
8	Greek (el) Θέατρο σκιών		60
9	Catalan (ca) Ombres xineses		59
10	Dutch (nl) Schimmenspel		59

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خيال الظل
ca	Catalan Ombres xineses
de	German Schattenspiel
el	Greek Θέατρο σκιών
en	English Shadow play
eo	Esperanto Ombroludo
es	Spanish Sombras chinescas
et	Estonian Varjuteater
eu	Basque Itzal-antzerki
fr	French Théâtre d'ombres
gl	Galician Sombras chinesas
he	Hebrew תיאטרון צלליות
hu	Hungarian Árnyjáték
hy	Armenian Ստվերների թատրոն
it	Italian Teatro d'ombre
ja	Japanese 影絵
ko	Korean 그림자극
lt	Lithuanian Šešėlių teatras
nl	Dutch Schimmenspel
no	Norwegian Skyggespill
pl	Polish Teatr cieni
pt	Portuguese Teatro de sombras
ro	Romanian Teatru de umbre
ru	Russian Театр теней
sh	Serbo-Croatian Teatar sjena
sv	Swedish Skuggspel
ta	Tamil நிழற் பொம்மலாட்டம்
tr	Turkish Gölge oyunu
uk	Ukrainian Театр тіней
uz	Uzbek Soya teatri
zh	Chinese 皮影戲

Best Rank

English: #18488 08.2019

Global: #31568 08.2019

Best Rank

English: #17725 12.2021

Global: #4614 01.2019

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