Shaolin Monastery

Quality:

Shaolin Monastery - Chan Buddhist temple in Dengfeng county, Henan, China. This building is the 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 191^st most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “Shaolin Monastery” in English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 32.19 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 191^st most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 124^th most popular in buildings.

In June 2026 the article “Shaolin Monastery” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shaolin Monastery”, its content was written by 528 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1991 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shaolin Monastery is on the 191^st place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 2982 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7485 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2401 in March 2003
• Global: #4204 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8464 in May 2009
• Global: #10319 in July 2025

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, 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	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		85.7717
2	Thai (th) วัดเส้าหลิน		80.3407
3	Slovenian (sl) Samostan Šaolin		78.1846
4	Polish (pl) Szaolin		75.1588
5	Hebrew (he) מנזר שאולין		58.28
6	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		48.2864
7	German (de) Shaolin		45.249
8	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		44.6676
9	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		43.9538
10	Slovak (sk) Šao-lin		39.22

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		6 549 067
2	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 548 175
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		1 483 960
4	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		1 194 410
5	German (de) Shaolin		1 157 461
6	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		675 448
7	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		625 046
8	Polish (pl) Szaolin		616 117
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chùa Thiếu Lâm		449 180
10	Portuguese (pt) Shaolin		447 403

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		23 031
2	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		4 326
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		2 847
4	German (de) Shaolin		2 523
5	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		1 918
6	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 618
7	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		1 470
8	Polish (pl) Szaolin		1 221
9	Persian (fa) معبد شائولین		992
10	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		785

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		528
2	German (de) Shaolin		190
3	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		139
4	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		120
5	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		117
6	Spanish (es) Shaolin		87
7	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		83
8	Dutch (nl) Shaolinklooster		77
9	Polish (pl) Szaolin		75
10	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		49

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		2
2	Simple English (simple) Shaolin Monastery		2
3	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		1
4	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		1
5	Arabic (ar) معبد شاولين		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şaolin		0
7	Belarusian (be) Шаалінь		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Шаолин		0
9	Czech (cs) Klášter Šaolin		0
10	Danish (da) Shaolin Kloster		0

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

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