Zen

Quality:

Zen - school of Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition. Article “Zen” in Italian Wikipedia has 40.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 7900^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4942^nd most popular in all topics.

The 3635^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Zen” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Zen”, its content was written by 173 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (7900^th place) and edited by 4107 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3635^th place).

The article is cited 557 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 23662 times in all languages (6938^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): #2141 in September 2008
• Global: #2243 in October 2011

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, 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	English (en) Zen		100
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		100
3	Greek (el) Ζεν		100
4	Spanish (es) Zen		98.951
5	German (de) Zen		96.7328
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zen		94.3472
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дзен		89.7222
8	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		84.7033
9	Slovenian (sl) Zen budizem		78.7745
10	Dutch (nl) Zen		75.5613

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Zen		15 827 553
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		4 585 121
3	Spanish (es) Zen		3 471 914
4	German (de) Zen		2 885 535
5	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		2 390 579
6	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		1 363 014
7	Polish (pl) Zen		1 226 803
8	Italian (it) Zen		1 172 821
9	French (fr) Zen		1 114 957
10	Portuguese (pt) Zen		894 403

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		36 369
2	Russian (ru) Дзэн		9 786
3	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		6 831
4	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		6 632
5	German (de) Zen		5 850
6	Spanish (es) Zen		3 651
7	French (fr) Zen		2 453
8	Polish (pl) Zen		2 353
9	Italian (it) Zen		2 033
10	Portuguese (pt) Zen		1 231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Zen		1 075
2	German (de) Zen		382
3	French (fr) Zen		239
4	Russian (ru) Дзэн		181
5	Dutch (nl) Zen		179
6	Italian (it) Zen		173
7	Spanish (es) Zen		159
8	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		158
9	Chinese (zh) 禅宗		151
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiền tông		98

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	Czech (cs) Zen		2
2	German (de) Zen		2
3	English (en) Zen		2
4	Italian (it) Zen		2
5	Polish (pl) Zen		2
6	Persian (fa) ذن		1
7	Japanese (ja) 禅宗		1
8	Russian (ru) Дзэн		1
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zen		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiền tông		1

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

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