Shapeshifting

Quality:

Shapeshifting - ability to physically transform through an inherent ability, divine intervention or magic. Article “Shapeshifting” in English Wikipedia has 64.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 74 references and 39 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 16.24 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Shapeshifting” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shapeshifting”, its content was written by 736 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 986 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1930 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4765 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3542 in June 2004
• Global: #4945 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9275 in July 2023
• Global: #17651 in July 2023

There are 23 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	Spanish (es) Metamorfosis (mitología)		70.5185
2	English (en) Shapeshifting		64.9409
3	Galician (gl) Metamorfose (mitoloxía)		47.5216
4	Malay (ms) Penjelmaan		33.9719
5	Italian (it) Metamorfosi (mitologia)		30.143
6	Latin (la) Versipellis		27.5575
7	Hebrew (he) שינוי צורה		27.533
8	Catalan (ca) Metamorfosi (mitologia)		25.5168
9	Simple English (simple) Shapeshifting		22.6808
10	Basque (eu) Forma-aldaketa		20.4856

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shapeshifting		8 022 706
2	Japanese (ja) 変身		528 386
3	German (de) Metamorphose (Mythologie)		207 894
4	Dutch (nl) Gedaanteverwisseling		109 273
5	Chinese (zh) 變身		98 090
6	Persian (fa) دگرپیکری		78 273
7	Spanish (es) Metamorfosis (mitología)		46 274
8	Hebrew (he) שינוי צורה		44 440
9	Italian (it) Metamorfosi (mitologia)		36 259
10	Korean (ko) 변신		24 990

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) Shapeshifting		28 741
2	Japanese (ja) 変身		1 564
3	Spanish (es) Metamorfosis (mitología)		519
4	German (de) Metamorphose (Mythologie)		514
5	Chinese (zh) 變身		344
6	Italian (it) Metamorfosi (mitologia)		312
7	Persian (fa) دگرپیکری		283
8	Simple English (simple) Shapeshifting		246
9	Hebrew (he) שינוי צורה		199
10	Dutch (nl) Gedaanteverwisseling		146

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shapeshifting		736
2	Japanese (ja) 変身		46
3	Dutch (nl) Gedaanteverwisseling		46
4	German (de) Metamorphose (Mythologie)		39
5	Hebrew (he) שינוי צורה		28
6	Galician (gl) Metamorfose (mitoloxía)		16
7	Chinese (zh) 變身		14
8	Persian (fa) دگرپیکری		10
9	Spanish (es) Metamorfosis (mitología)		6
10	Korean (ko) 변신		5

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) Shapeshifting		4
2	Arabic (ar) تحول الشكل		0
3	Catalan (ca) Metamorfosi (mitologia)		0
4	German (de) Metamorphose (Mythologie)		0
5	Greek (el) Μεταμόρφωση (μυθοπλασία)		0
6	Spanish (es) Metamorfosis (mitología)		0
7	Basque (eu) Forma-aldaketa		0
8	Persian (fa) دگرپیکری		0
9	Galician (gl) Metamorfose (mitoloxía)		0
10	Hebrew (he) שינוי צורה		0

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

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