The Shadow (fairy tale)

The Shadow - 1847 literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Article “The Shadow (fairy tale)” in English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Shadow (fairy tale)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Shadow (fairy tale)”, its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 68 times in English Wikipedia and cited 202 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #106867 in June 2009
• Global: #85892 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #279650 in January 2009
• Global: #375572 in April 2010

There are 9 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	German (de) Der Schatten		59.9524
2	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		32.6989
3	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		30.1499
4	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		18.0393
5	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		11.644
6	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		6.5452
7	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		5.7861
8	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		5.0607
9	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		4.3448

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Shadow (fairy tale)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		291 146
2	German (de) Der Schatten		70 811
3	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		41 999
4	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		7 895
5	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		3 491
6	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		2 603
7	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		1 189
8	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		662
9	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		242

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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 "The Shadow (fairy tale)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		1 343
2	German (de) Der Schatten		255
3	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		138
4	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		109
5	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		55
6	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		23
7	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		19
8	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		11
9	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		56
2	German (de) Der Schatten		40
3	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		16
4	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		7
5	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		6
6	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		5
7	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		3
8	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		2
9	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		2

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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 "The Shadow (fairy tale)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		3
2	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		1
3	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		0
4	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		0
5	German (de) Der Schatten		0
6	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		0
7	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		0
8	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		0
9	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		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 "The Shadow (fairy tale)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Shadow (fairy tale)		68
2	Danish (da) Skyggen (eventyr)		64
3	Persian (fa) سایه (افسانه)		46
4	German (de) Der Schatten		12
5	French (fr) L'Ombre (Andersen)		4
6	Esperanto (eo) La ombro		3
7	Polish (pl) Cień (baśń)		3
8	Arabic (ar) الظل (حكاية)		1
9	Armenian (hy) Ստվերը		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الظل (حكاية)
da	Danish Skyggen (eventyr)
de	German Der Schatten
en	English The Shadow (fairy tale)
eo	Esperanto La ombro
fa	Persian سایه (افسانه)
fr	French L'Ombre (Andersen)
hy	Armenian Ստվերը
pl	Polish Cień (baśń)

Best Rank

English: #279650 01.2009

Global: #375572 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #106867 06.2009

Global: #85892 10.2024

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