Slate

Slate - fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, low-grade metamorphic rock. Article “Slate” in English Wikipedia has 69.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 53 references and 10 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.

Since the creation of article “Slate”, its content was written by 367 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1140 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6734 times in English Wikipedia (3282^nd place) and cited 13721 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5737 in March 2002
• Global: #6221 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17820 in November 2014
• Global: #20022 in November 2014

There are 35 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) Slate		69.7719
2	Catalan (ca) Llicorella		65.4636
3	Ukrainian (uk) Аспідний сланець		62.0995
4	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		54.7204
5	French (fr) Ardoise		48.5102
6	Serbian (sr) Аргилошист		41.1865
7	Latin (la) Ardesia		38.4313
8	Malay (ms) Sabak (batuan)		35.7
9	Swedish (sv) Skiffer		33.0787
10	Basque (eu) Arbel		30.453

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Slate" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slate		4 436 923
2	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		1 510 759
3	French (fr) Ardoise		977 584
4	Italian (it) Ardesia		812 164
5	Portuguese (pt) Ardósia		607 307
6	Japanese (ja) 粘板岩		514 393
7	Dutch (nl) Leisteen		267 749
8	Swedish (sv) Skiffer		180 666
9	Chinese (zh) 板岩		146 013
10	Catalan (ca) Llicorella		136 272

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Slate" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slate		9 390
2	French (fr) Ardoise		1 624
3	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		1 418
4	Italian (it) Ardesia		1 298
5	Japanese (ja) 粘板岩		945
6	Portuguese (pt) Ardósia		584
7	Dutch (nl) Leisteen		535
8	Swedish (sv) Skiffer		390
9	Chinese (zh) 板岩		298
10	Russian (ru) Аспидный сланец		228

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

Language versions of the article "Slate" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Slate		367
2	French (fr) Ardoise		181
3	Italian (it) Ardesia		94
4	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		80
5	Portuguese (pt) Ardósia		61
6	Dutch (nl) Leisteen		59
7	Catalan (ca) Llicorella		39
8	Swedish (sv) Skiffer		28
9	Hebrew (he) לווחה		21
10	Japanese (ja) 粘板岩		18

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

Language versions of the article "Slate" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		2
2	Arabic (ar) أردواز		1
3	French (fr) Ardoise		1
4	Indonesian (id) Batu sabak		1
5	Italian (it) Ardesia		1
6	Catalan (ca) Llicorella		0
7	English (en) Slate		0
8	Estonian (et) Kilt		0
9	Basque (eu) Arbel		0
10	Persian (fa) سنگ لوح		0

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

Language versions of the article "Slate" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Slate		6 734
2	French (fr) Ardoise		1 421
3	Spanish (es) Pizarra (roca)		903
4	Dutch (nl) Leisteen		592
5	Catalan (ca) Llicorella		518
6	Italian (it) Ardesia		516
7	Swedish (sv) Skiffer		410
8	Japanese (ja) 粘板岩		378
9	Portuguese (pt) Ardósia		341
10	Georgian (ka) ფიქალი		269

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أردواز
ca	Catalan Llicorella
en	English Slate
es	Spanish Pizarra (roca)
et	Estonian Kilt
eu	Basque Arbel
fa	Persian سنگ لوح
fi	Finnish Saviliuske
fr	French Ardoise
gl	Galician Lousa
he	Hebrew לווחה
hi	Hindi परतदार पत्थर
hu	Hungarian Pala (kőzet)
id	Indonesian Batu sabak
it	Italian Ardesia
ja	Japanese 粘板岩
ka	Georgian ფიქალი
ko	Korean 점판암
la	Latin Ardesia
ms	Malay Sabak (batuan)
nl	Dutch Leisteen
pt	Portuguese Ardósia
ro	Romanian Ardezie
ru	Russian Аспидный сланец
sh	Serbo-Croatian Glineni škriljavac
simple	Simple English Slate
sl	Slovenian Skril
sr	Serbian Аргилошист
sv	Swedish Skiffer
ta	Tamil சிலேட்டுக் கல்
th	Thai หินชนวน
tr	Turkish Kayrak
uk	Ukrainian Аспідний сланець
vi	Vietnamese Đá bảng
zh	Chinese 板岩

Best Rank

English: #17820 11.2014

Global: #20022 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #5737 03.2002

Global: #6221 03.2002

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