Shooting an Elephant

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Shooting an Elephant

Quality:

Shooting an Elephant - essay by George Orwell. This book is the 2704th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Shooting an Elephant” in English Wikipedia has 53.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2704th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Shooting an Elephant”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 281 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shooting an Elephant is on the 2704th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 80 times in English Wikipedia and cited 138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #22026 in April 2003
  • Global: #28256 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #65014 in October 2013
  • Global: #94337 in September 2008

There are 11 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
獵象記
57.1874
2English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
53.8929
3Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
31.9714
4Catalan (ca)
Shooting an Elephant
29.1858
5Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
28.6106
6Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
26.9918
7Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
10.1198
8Esperanto (eo)
Pafadi Elefanton
8.0651
9Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
5.475
10German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
5.382
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Shooting an Elephant" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
1 683 500
2German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
215 744
3Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
34 406
4Danish (da)
Jeg skyder en elefant
31 883
5Chinese (zh)
獵象記
22 160
6Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
17 452
7Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
9 036
8Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
8 324
9Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
4 009
10Esperanto (eo)
Pafadi Elefanton
3 708
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Shooting an Elephant" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
4 753
2Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
197
3Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
177
4Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
154
5German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
149
6Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
132
7Chinese (zh)
獵象記
126
8Danish (da)
Jeg skyder en elefant
22
9Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
18
10Esperanto (eo)
Pafadi Elefanton
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Shooting an Elephant" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
153
2Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
34
3German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
33
4Danish (da)
Jeg skyder en elefant
15
5Esperanto (eo)
Pafadi Elefanton
11
6Chinese (zh)
獵象記
9
7Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
8
8Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
6
9Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
5
10Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Shooting an Elephant" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
1
2Catalan (ca)
Shooting an Elephant
0
3Danish (da)
Jeg skyder en elefant
0
4German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
0
5English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Pafadi Elefanton
0
7Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
0
8Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
0
9Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
0
10Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Shooting an Elephant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shooting an Elephant
80
2Russian (ru)
Как я стрелял в слона
17
3Swedish (sv)
Att skjuta en elefant
17
4Hebrew (he)
לירות בפיל
7
5Danish (da)
Jeg skyder en elefant
5
6Spanish (es)
Matar a un elefante
5
7German (de)
Shooting an Elephant
2
8Japanese (ja)
象を撃つ
2
9Chinese (zh)
獵象記
2
10Catalan (ca)
Shooting an Elephant
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Shooting an Elephant
daDanish
Jeg skyder en elefant
deGerman
Shooting an Elephant
enEnglish
Shooting an Elephant
eoEsperanto
Pafadi Elefanton
esSpanish
Matar a un elefante
heHebrew
לירות בפיל
jaJapanese
象を撃つ
ruRussian
Как я стрелял в слона
svSwedish
Att skjuta en elefant
zhChinese
獵象記

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#65014
10.2013
Global:
#94337
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22026
04.2003
Global:
#28256
04.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shooting an Elephant from Wikipedia articles about George Orwell, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Elephant execution in the United States, Musth and Mahout. Whereas reading the article about Shooting an Elephant people most often go to Wikipedia articles on A Hanging, George Orwell, Richard Blair, British rule in Myanmar and Sonia Orwell.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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