Shimenawa

Shimenawa - lengths of laid rice straw or hemp rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion. Article “Shimenawa” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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 “Shimenawa”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 276 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1953 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #19723 in August 2020
• Global: #54390 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #39660 in January 2023
• Global: #16318 in December 2008

There are 22 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) Shimenawa		84.2546
2	Japanese (ja) 注連縄		54.4869
3	Greek (el) Σιμενάουα		54.404
4	Simple English (simple) Shimenawa		39.9612
5	Russian (ru) Симэнава		39.1007
6	Arabic (ar) شيمناوا		31.5846
7	German (de) Shimenawa		29.6833
8	Serbian (sr) Шименава		26.3468
9	Catalan (ca) Shimenawa		24.1769
10	Indonesian (id) Shimenawa		23.8965

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 注連縄		2 181 580
2	English (en) Shimenawa		807 092
3	Chinese (zh) 注連繩		148 336
4	French (fr) Shimenawa		81 737
5	Russian (ru) Симэнава		67 129
6	German (de) Shimenawa		62 877
7	Italian (it) Shimenawa		27 232
8	Spanish (es) Shimenawa		26 983
9	Korean (ko) 금줄		16 022
10	Polish (pl) Shimenawa		14 055

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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 "Shimenawa" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shimenawa		5 924
2	Japanese (ja) 注連縄		2 686
3	Chinese (zh) 注連繩		936
4	Russian (ru) Симэнава		669
5	French (fr) Shimenawa		387
6	German (de) Shimenawa		379
7	Italian (it) Shimenawa		230
8	Spanish (es) Shimenawa		193
9	Portuguese (pt) Shimenawa		59
10	Korean (ko) 금줄		55

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shimenawa		73
2	Japanese (ja) 注連縄		57
3	German (de) Shimenawa		35
4	French (fr) Shimenawa		30
5	Chinese (zh) 注連繩		14
6	Russian (ru) Симэнава		11
7	Italian (it) Shimenawa		9
8	Korean (ko) 금줄		7
9	Czech (cs) Šimenawa		6
10	Spanish (es) Shimenawa		5

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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 "Shimenawa" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شيمناوا		0
2	Catalan (ca) Shimenawa		0
3	Czech (cs) Šimenawa		0
4	German (de) Shimenawa		0
5	Greek (el) Σιμενάουα		0
6	English (en) Shimenawa		0
7	Spanish (es) Shimenawa		0
8	Persian (fa) شیمه‌ناوا		0
9	Finnish (fi) Shimenawa		0
10	French (fr) Shimenawa		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 "Shimenawa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 注連縄		716
2	English (en) Shimenawa		580
3	Italian (it) Shimenawa		229
4	French (fr) Shimenawa		145
5	Simple English (simple) Shimenawa		92
6	Chinese (zh) 注連繩		32
7	Korean (ko) 금줄		31
8	Russian (ru) Симэнава		29
9	German (de) Shimenawa		19
10	Finnish (fi) Shimenawa		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شيمناوا
ca	Catalan Shimenawa
cs	Czech Šimenawa
de	German Shimenawa
el	Greek Σιμενάουα
en	English Shimenawa
es	Spanish Shimenawa
fa	Persian شیمه‌ناوا
fi	Finnish Shimenawa
fr	French Shimenawa
id	Indonesian Shimenawa
it	Italian Shimenawa
ja	Japanese 注連縄
ko	Korean 금줄
no	Norwegian Shimenawa
pl	Polish Shimenawa
pt	Portuguese Shimenawa
ru	Russian Симэнава
simple	Simple English Shimenawa
sr	Serbian Шименава
tr	Turkish Shimenawa
zh	Chinese 注連繩

Best Rank

Norwegian: #39660 01.2023

Global: #16318 12.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #19723 08.2020

Global: #54390 11.2014

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