Sōtō

Sōtō - sect of Zen in Japanese Buddhism. Article “Sōtō” in Polish Wikipedia has 63.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 69 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sōtō” was edited by 1 authors in Polish Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sōtō”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Polish Wikipedia and edited by 797 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 118 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 7003 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #1330 in August 2003
• Global: #3883 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #19149 in April 2015
• Global: #39010 in August 2015

There are 29 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) Sōtō		93.244
2	German (de) Sōtō-shū		71.1284
3	Polish (pl) Sōtō		63.3191
4	Italian (it) Sōtō-shū		55.5903
5	Ukrainian (uk) Сото (дзен)		35.5453
6	Swedish (sv) Sōtō		33.748
7	Spanish (es) Sōtō		33.5776
8	Korean (ko) 조동종 (일본)		31.3096
9	Japanese (ja) 曹洞宗		29.5864
10	Dutch (nl) Sōtō (zen)		28.5196

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 曹洞宗		5 348 830
2	English (en) Sōtō		1 000 413
3	German (de) Sōtō-shū		136 599
4	French (fr) Sōtō		104 036
5	Spanish (es) Sōtō		86 935
6	Polish (pl) Sōtō		83 519
7	Italian (it) Sōtō-shū		67 527
8	Russian (ru) Сото-сю		65 983
9	Portuguese (pt) Soto Shu		49 639
10	Dutch (nl) Sōtō (zen)		21 947

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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 "Sōtō" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 曹洞宗		13 786
2	English (en) Sōtō		5 802
3	German (de) Sōtō-shū		469
4	French (fr) Sōtō		369
5	Russian (ru) Сото-сю		324
6	Italian (it) Sōtō-shū		280
7	Portuguese (pt) Soto Shu		262
8	Spanish (es) Sōtō		186
9	Korean (ko) 조동종 (일본)		150
10	Polish (pl) Sōtō		110

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sōtō		188
2	Japanese (ja) 曹洞宗		138
3	German (de) Sōtō-shū		94
4	French (fr) Sōtō		67
5	Italian (it) Sōtō-shū		62
6	Polish (pl) Sōtō		38
7	Norwegian (no) Sōtō		23
8	Portuguese (pt) Soto Shu		21
9	Russian (ru) Сото-сю		20
10	Galician (gl) Zen Soto		19

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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 "Sōtō" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 조동종 (일본)		1
2	Polish (pl) Sōtō		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Сото		0
4	Catalan (ca) Soto zen		0
5	Czech (cs) Sótó		0
6	German (de) Sōtō-shū		0
7	Greek (el) Σότο Ζεν		0
8	English (en) Sōtō		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Soto		0
10	Spanish (es) Sōtō		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 "Sōtō" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 曹洞宗		4 440
2	English (en) Sōtō		1 196
3	French (fr) Sōtō		329
4	German (de) Sōtō-shū		165
5	Russian (ru) Сото-сю		119
6	Polish (pl) Sōtō		118
7	Italian (it) Sōtō-shū		98
8	Korean (ko) 조동종 (일본)		80
9	Spanish (es) Sōtō		65
10	Dutch (nl) Sōtō (zen)		40

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Сото
ca	Catalan Soto zen
cs	Czech Sótó
de	German Sōtō-shū
el	Greek Σότο Ζεν
en	English Sōtō
eo	Esperanto Soto
es	Spanish Sōtō
et	Estonian Sōtō
eu	Basque Sōtō Zen
fa	Persian سوتو (فرقه ذن)
fr	French Sōtō
gl	Galician Zen Soto
hu	Hungarian Szótó
id	Indonesian Sōtō
it	Italian Sōtō-shū
ja	Japanese 曹洞宗
ko	Korean 조동종 (일본)
nl	Dutch Sōtō (zen)
no	Norwegian Sōtō
pl	Polish Sōtō
pt	Portuguese Soto Shu
ru	Russian Сото-сю
sh	Serbo-Croatian Sōtō
sk	Slovak Sótó zen
sr	Serbian Soto
sv	Swedish Sōtō
tr	Turkish Sōtō
uk	Ukrainian Сото (дзен)

Best Rank

Polish: #19149 04.2015

Global: #39010 08.2015

Best Rank

Polish: #1330 08.2003

Global: #3883 06.2003

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