Shaolin Monastery

Quality:

Shaolin Monastery - Chan Buddhist temple in Dengfeng county, Henan, China. This building is the 127^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 190^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “Shaolin Monastery” in English Wikipedia has 51.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 64 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 27.7 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 190^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 127^th most popular in buildings.

In June 2025 the article “Shaolin Monastery” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shaolin Monastery”, its content was written by 512 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1956 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shaolin Monastery is on the 190^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 127^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 2980 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7368 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2403 in March 2003
• Global: #4204 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8401 in May 2009
• Global: #11494 in May 2009

There are 47 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	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		83.6918
2	Thai (th) วัดเส้าหลิน		81.4156
3	Slovenian (sl) Samostan Šaolin		76.3959
4	Polish (pl) Szaolin		74.8998
5	Hebrew (he) מנזר שאולין		59.6578
6	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		51.446
7	German (de) Shaolin		46.417
8	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		46.3841
9	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		44.6762
10	Slovak (sk) Šao-lin		40.5036

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		6 254 894
2	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 526 438
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		1 292 003
4	German (de) Shaolin		1 114 285
5	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		1 086 805
6	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		642 585
7	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		602 639
8	Polish (pl) Szaolin		589 703
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chùa Thiếu Lâm		435 671
10	Portuguese (pt) Shaolin		434 222

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) Shaolin Monastery		30 542
2	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		6 232
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		4 715
4	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		3 053
5	German (de) Shaolin		2 674
6	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		2 301
7	Polish (pl) Szaolin		1 793
8	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 246
9	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		990
10	Hebrew (he) מנזר שאולין		987

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		512
2	German (de) Shaolin		190
3	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		130
4	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		118
5	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		117
6	Spanish (es) Shaolin		86
7	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		80
8	Dutch (nl) Shaolinklooster		76
9	Polish (pl) Szaolin		74
10	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		45

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) Shaolin Monastery		9
2	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		3
3	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		1
4	Persian (fa) معبد شائولین		1
5	Indonesian (id) Vihara Shaolin		1
6	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		1
7	Korean (ko) 소림사		1
8	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		1
9	Arabic (ar) معبد شاولين		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Şaolin		0

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

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