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 76.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 63 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 language version.

In June 2025 the article "Shellac" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Shellac", its content was written by 305 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 580 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6053 in April 2003
• Global: #3993 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12485 in March 2024
• Global: #2110 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, 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	English (en) Shellac		76.4958
2	German (de) Schellack		50.0134
3	Greek (el) Γομαλάκα		48.0751
4	Swedish (sv) Schellack		44.0759
5	Malay (ms) Syelek		37.979
6	Hebrew (he) שלאק		32.1563
7	Arabic (ar) شيلاك		31.9337
8	Chinese (zh) 蟲膠		30.4936
9	Czech (cs) Šelak		30.3484
10	French (fr) Gomme-laque		28.7499

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellac		6 243 943
2	German (de) Schellack		2 411 934
3	Russian (ru) Шеллак		1 099 804
4	Spanish (es) Goma laca		474 756
5	Italian (it) Gommalacca		465 551
6	Polish (pl) Szelak		452 774
7	French (fr) Gomme-laque		427 442
8	Japanese (ja) シェラック		404 418
9	Dutch (nl) Schellak		271 074
10	Czech (cs) Šelak		188 523

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		22 978
2	German (de) Schellack		6 373
3	Russian (ru) Шеллак		2 948
4	French (fr) Gomme-laque		1 504
5	Dutch (nl) Schellak		1 437
6	Polish (pl) Szelak		1 259
7	Italian (it) Gommalacca		1 176
8	Japanese (ja) シェラック		1 123
9	Chinese (zh) 蟲膠		907
10	Czech (cs) Šelak		860

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellac		305
2	German (de) Schellack		163
3	Dutch (nl) Schellak		69
4	French (fr) Gomme-laque		60
5	Italian (it) Gommalacca		53
6	Russian (ru) Шеллак		50
7	Hungarian (hu) Sellak		38
8	Spanish (es) Goma laca		35
9	Norwegian (no) Skjellakk		31
10	Polish (pl) Szelak		31

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) Shellac		2
2	German (de) Schellack		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Ŝelako		1
4	Hindi (hi) चपड़ा		1
5	Korean (ko) 셀락		1
6	Arabic (ar) شيلاك		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şellak		0
8	Catalan (ca) Goma laca		0
9	Czech (cs) Šelak		0
10	Danish (da) Shellak		0

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

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