Zen

Quality:

Zen - school of Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition. Article “Zen” in Italian Wikipedia has 41 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 19 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7892^nd most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5227^th most popular in all topics.

The 3676^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Zen” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Zen”, its content was written by 177 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (7892^nd place) and edited by 4143 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3676^th place).

The article is cited 564 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 24170 times in all languages (7004^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #142 in November 2002
• Global: #137 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1423 in September 2008
• Global: #2347 in December 2008

There are 53 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) Zen		100
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		100
3	Greek (el) Ζεν		100
4	Spanish (es) Zen		98.2663
5	German (de) Zen		96.2307
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zen		94.3893
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дзен		88.6667
8	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		84.7134
9	Slovenian (sl) Zen budizem		78.5525
10	Dutch (nl) Zen		75.4848

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zen		16 282 687
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		4 993 329
3	Spanish (es) Zen		3 537 569
4	German (de) Zen		2 991 363
5	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		1 446 320
6	Italian (it) Zen		1 353 166
7	Polish (pl) Zen		1 269 167
8	French (fr) Zen		1 158 810
9	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		1 086 501
10	Portuguese (pt) Zen		920 764

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) Zen		31 015
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		7 151
3	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		6 280
4	German (de) Zen		5 698
5	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		4 661
6	Spanish (es) Zen		2 875
7	French (fr) Zen		2 084
8	Polish (pl) Zen		1 938
9	Italian (it) Zen		1 934
10	Persian (fa) ذن		1 531

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zen		1 099
2	German (de) Zen		387
3	French (fr) Zen		240
4	Russian (ru) Дзэн		183
5	Dutch (nl) Zen		180
6	Italian (it) Zen		177
7	Spanish (es) Zen		161
8	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		161
9	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		156
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiền tông		101

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) Zen		4
2	Finnish (fi) Zen		2
3	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		2
4	German (de) Zen		1
5	Greek (el) Ζεν		1
6	Basque (eu) Zen		1
7	Hebrew (he) זן (בודהיזם)		1
8	Italian (it) Zen		1
9	Korean (ko) 선종		1
10	Serbian (sr) Зен		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information