Shia Islam

Quality:

Shia Islam - second-most populous Islamic denomination. Article “Shia Islam” in English Wikipedia has 90.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 265 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.76 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3107^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 673^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1324^th most popular in all topics.

The 847^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 696^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8271^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 310^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1415^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Shia Islam” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8271^st place) and written by 53 authors in all languages (1415^th place).

Since the creation of article “Shia Islam”, its content was written by 2136 registered users of English Wikipedia (673^rd place) and edited by 6760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (847^th place).

The article is cited 10121 times in English Wikipedia (1944^th place) and cited 60777 times in all languages (2684^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #99 in February 2005
• Global: #174 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #630 in June 2014
• Global: #257 in November 2015

There are 54 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	Armenian (hy) Շիա իսլամ		100
2	German (de) Schia		99.8137
3	Chinese (zh) 什叶派		99.5957
4	Korean (ko) 시아파		97.729
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Šijitizam		97.7173
6	Arabic (ar) الشيعة		94.8208
7	English (en) Shia Islam		90.4782
8	Finnish (fi) Šiialaisuus		79.0309
9	Thai (th) ชีอะฮ์		77.2362
10	Russian (ru) Шииты		76.8422

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shia Islam		25 902 426
2	Arabic (ar) الشيعة		8 937 649
3	Russian (ru) Шииты		5 032 633
4	French (fr) Chiisme		4 661 467
5	German (de) Schia		3 819 957
6	Indonesian (id) Syiah		3 587 928
7	Turkish (tr) Şiilik		3 347 125
8	Spanish (es) Chiismo		3 294 846
9	Persian (fa) شیعه		3 232 555
10	Italian (it) Sciismo		1 944 301

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) Shia Islam		312 329
2	Russian (ru) Шииты		54 322
3	Arabic (ar) الشيعة		51 316
4	Spanish (es) Chiismo		46 087
5	Chinese (zh) 什叶派		36 728
6	French (fr) Chiisme		36 621
7	Turkish (tr) Şiilik		28 550
8	Italian (it) Sciismo		25 796
9	Indonesian (id) Syiah		23 641
10	Polish (pl) Szyizm		19 428

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shia Islam		2 136
2	Arabic (ar) الشيعة		439
3	French (fr) Chiisme		398
4	German (de) Schia		394
5	Persian (fa) شیعه		319
6	Russian (ru) Шииты		245
7	Turkish (tr) Şiilik		238
8	Spanish (es) Chiismo		193
9	Dutch (nl) Sjiisme		191
10	Italian (it) Sciismo		178

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) Shia Islam		10
2	Russian (ru) Шииты		10
3	Korean (ko) 시아파		5
4	German (de) Schia		4
5	Spanish (es) Chiismo		4
6	French (fr) Chiisme		3
7	Italian (it) Sciismo		3
8	Arabic (ar) الشيعة		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şiəlik		2
10	Dutch (nl) Sjiisme		2

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

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