Shamash

Shamash - Mesopotamian sun god. Article “Shamash” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 2.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Shamash”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 782 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 3634 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #5490 in August 2023
• Global: #6023 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #47020 in January 2008
• Global: #42417 in November 2025

There are 34 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) Shamash		100
2	Armenian (hy) Շամաշ		86.0382
3	Persian (fa) شمش (ایزد)		59.2178
4	French (fr) Shamash		46.7258
5	Japanese (ja) シャマシュ		43.5909
6	Chinese (zh) 沙玛什		42.4628
7	Slovak (sk) Šamaš		35.2762
8	Hebrew (he) שמש (אל)		29.9813
9	Italian (it) Šamaš		28.5183
10	Spanish (es) Shamash		27.9105

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shamash		2 614 350
2	Spanish (es) Shamash		419 841
3	Japanese (ja) シャマシュ		368 240
4	Russian (ru) Шамаш (мифология)		245 836
5	French (fr) Shamash		209 950
6	German (de) Šamaš		126 514
7	Italian (it) Šamaš		118 441
8	Portuguese (pt) Samas		109 325
9	Arabic (ar) شمش		71 514
10	Persian (fa) شمش (ایزد)		71 025

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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 "Shamash" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shamash		21 705
2	Japanese (ja) シャマシュ		1 246
3	Russian (ru) Шамаш (мифология)		781
4	Spanish (es) Shamash		657
5	French (fr) Shamash		641
6	Persian (fa) شمش (ایزد)		548
7	German (de) Šamaš		515
8	Italian (it) Šamaš		356
9	Chinese (zh) 沙玛什		341
10	Portuguese (pt) Samas		224

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shamash		250
2	French (fr) Shamash		63
3	German (de) Šamaš		61
4	Russian (ru) Шамаш (мифология)		47
5	Italian (it) Šamaš		42
6	Dutch (nl) Sjamasj		35
7	Danish (da) Shamash		31
8	Spanish (es) Shamash		29
9	Japanese (ja) シャマシュ		29
10	Persian (fa) شمش (ایزد)		26

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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 "Shamash" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Šamaš		1
2	Arabic (ar) شمش		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Şamaş		0
4	Belarusian (be) Шамаш (міфалогія)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Xamaix		0
6	Danish (da) Shamash		0
7	English (en) Shamash		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Ŝamaŝ		0
9	Spanish (es) Shamash		0
10	Estonian (et) Šamaš		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 "Shamash" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shamash		762
2	Russian (ru) Шамаш (мифология)		241
3	Arabic (ar) شمش		233
4	Persian (fa) شمش (ایزد)		196
5	French (fr) Shamash		189
6	Lithuanian (lt) Šamašas		186
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шамаш (міфологія)		167
8	Italian (it) Šamaš		159
9	Japanese (ja) シャマシュ		159
10	Spanish (es) Shamash		140

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شمش
az	Azerbaijani Şamaş
be	Belarusian Шамаш (міфалогія)
ca	Catalan Xamaix
da	Danish Shamash
de	German Šamaš
en	English Shamash
eo	Esperanto Ŝamaŝ
es	Spanish Shamash
et	Estonian Šamaš
eu	Basque Xamax
fa	Persian شمش (ایزد)
fi	Finnish Šamaš
fr	French Shamash
he	Hebrew שמש (אל)
hr	Croatian Šamaš
hu	Hungarian Samas
hy	Armenian Շամաշ
id	Indonesian Shamash
it	Italian Šamaš
ja	Japanese シャマシュ
ka	Georgian შამაში
lt	Lithuanian Šamašas
ms	Malay Shamash
nl	Dutch Sjamasj
no	Norwegian Shamash
pt	Portuguese Samas
ru	Russian Шамаш (мифология)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Šamaš
sk	Slovak Šamaš
sv	Swedish Shamash
uk	Ukrainian Шамаш (міфологія)
ur	Urdu شمش
zh	Chinese 沙玛什

Best Rank

Norwegian: #47020 01.2008

Global: #42417 11.2025

Best Rank

Norwegian: #5490 08.2023

Global: #6023 09.2002

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