Shellac

Quality:

Shellac - spirit varnish produced from the resin secreted by lac insects on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. Article “Shellac” in English Wikipedia has 75.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 61 references and 12 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 2026 the article “Shellac” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shellac”, its content was written by 313 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 586 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2273 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6052 in April 2003
• Global: #3991 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12505 in March 2024
• Global: #2107 in February 2023

There are 41 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) Shellac		75.4698
2	German (de) Schellack		48.7954
3	Greek (el) Γομαλάκα		48.4317
4	Swedish (sv) Schellack		43.6416
5	Malay (ms) Syelek		38.1301
6	Hebrew (he) שלאק		31.9679
7	Chinese (zh) 蟲膠		30.7126
8	Czech (cs) Šelak		30.0937
9	French (fr) Gomme-laque		27.2221
10	Catalan (ca) Goma laca		26.3944

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellac		6 486 787
2	German (de) Schellack		2 495 423
3	Russian (ru) Шеллак		1 249 039
4	Italian (it) Gommalacca		481 313
5	Spanish (es) Goma laca		480 733
6	Polish (pl) Szelak		466 658
7	French (fr) Gomme-laque		447 138
8	Japanese (ja) シェラック		418 928
9	Dutch (nl) Schellak		285 250
10	Swedish (sv) Schellack		195 949

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) Shellac		16 063
2	German (de) Schellack		5 123
3	Russian (ru) Шеллак		2 104
4	Dutch (nl) Schellak		1 576
5	French (fr) Gomme-laque		1 410
6	Japanese (ja) シェラック		1 129
7	Polish (pl) Szelak		947
8	Italian (it) Gommalacca		929
9	Chinese (zh) 蟲膠		607
10	Swedish (sv) Schellack		560

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellac		313
2	German (de) Schellack		165
3	Dutch (nl) Schellak		69
4	French (fr) Gomme-laque		62
5	Italian (it) Gommalacca		53
6	Russian (ru) Шеллак		50
7	Hungarian (hu) Sellak		38
8	Spanish (es) Goma laca		35
9	Polish (pl) Szelak		32
10	Czech (cs) Šelak		30

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	Japanese (ja) シェラック		2
2	English (en) Shellac		1
3	Arabic (ar) شيلاك		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Şellak		0
5	Catalan (ca) Goma laca		0
6	Czech (cs) Šelak		0
7	Danish (da) Shellak		0
8	German (de) Schellack		0
9	Greek (el) Γομαλάκα		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ŝelako		0

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

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