Shaka

Quality:

Shaka Zulu - leader of the Zulu Kingdom. This person is the 6365^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Shaka” in English Wikipedia has 78.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 83 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.13 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6365^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2775^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8800^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Shaka” was edited by 14 authors in English Wikipedia (2775^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (8800^th place).

Since the creation of article “Shaka”, its content was written by 787 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2144 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shaka Zulu is on the 6365^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 346 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1764 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2775 in June 2026
• Global: #2730 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1999 in May 2009
• Global: #4169 in July 2015

There are 50 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) Shaka		78.491
2	Korean (ko) 샤카 카센잔가코나		69.1478
3	Czech (cs) Šaka		61.9876
4	Hungarian (hu) Saka Zulu		47.2587
5	Catalan (ca) Shaka		44.6184
6	Bulgarian (bg) Шака Зулу		39.6918
7	Swedish (sv) Shaka Zulu		36.2274
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Shaka Zulu		34.5034
9	Spanish (es) Shaka		33.7946
10	French (fr) Chaka (roi zoulou)		32.8543

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaka		10 539 760
2	Spanish (es) Shaka		1 011 016
3	French (fr) Chaka (roi zoulou)		975 264
4	German (de) Shaka		562 020
5	Russian (ru) Чака		390 756
6	Polish (pl) Czaka		320 628
7	Portuguese (pt) Shaka Zulu		296 926
8	Dutch (nl) Shaka Zoeloe		277 498
9	Japanese (ja) シャカ・ズールー		249 453
10	Italian (it) Shaka		223 262

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaka		27 035
2	French (fr) Chaka (roi zoulou)		2 678
3	Spanish (es) Shaka		1 722
4	Portuguese (pt) Shaka Zulu		1 280
5	German (de) Shaka		1 248
6	Polish (pl) Czaka		1 056
7	Russian (ru) Чака		1 048
8	Japanese (ja) シャカ・ズールー		685
9	Dutch (nl) Shaka Zoeloe		668
10	Italian (it) Shaka		560

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaka		787
2	French (fr) Chaka (roi zoulou)		173
3	German (de) Shaka		119
4	Italian (it) Shaka		92
5	Russian (ru) Чака		86
6	Dutch (nl) Shaka Zoeloe		80
7	Spanish (es) Shaka		78
8	Portuguese (pt) Shaka Zulu		58
9	Hebrew (he) שאקה		53
10	Polish (pl) Czaka		37

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaka		14
2	Azerbaijani (az) Çaka		3
3	Catalan (ca) Shaka		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Шака Зулу		1
5	Hebrew (he) שאקה		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Saka Zulu		1
7	Arabic (ar) شاكا زولو		0
8	Belarusian (be) Чака		0
9	Czech (cs) Šaka		0
10	Danish (da) Shaka		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information