Shamal

Shamal - northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf state. Article “Shamal” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 13.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Shamal”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 215 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 718 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #33544 in December 2024
• Global: #22531 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #284094 in January 2010
• Global: #259294 in May 2013

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	Chinese (zh) 夏马风		44.296
2	Slovenian (sl) Šamal (veter)		38.0148
3	English (en) Shamal (wind)		35.3189
4	Spanish (es) Shamal (viento)		31.8844
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Shamal		31.2982
6	Polish (pl) Szamal		23.7487
7	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		22.9211
8	Ukrainian (uk) Шамаль (вітер)		22.6939
9	French (fr) Chammal		22.3685
10	Catalan (ca) Xamal (vent)		22.0688

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shamal (wind)		395 376
2	French (fr) Chammal		43 796
3	Persian (fa) شمال (باد)		33 543
4	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		32 346
5	Polish (pl) Szamal		29 511
6	Japanese (ja) シャマール		25 929
7	Arabic (ar) ريح الشمال		22 093
8	Russian (ru) Шамаль		18 647
9	Spanish (es) Shamal (viento)		17 915
10	Greek (el) Σαμάλ (άνεμος)		8 169

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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 "Shamal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shamal (wind)		1 767
2	Japanese (ja) シャマール		276
3	French (fr) Chammal		167
4	Russian (ru) Шамаль		119
5	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		104
6	Persian (fa) شمال (باد)		97
7	Chinese (zh) 夏马风		93
8	Arabic (ar) ريح الشمال		69
9	Spanish (es) Shamal (viento)		58
10	Polish (pl) Szamal		50

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shamal (wind)		57
2	French (fr) Chammal		30
3	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		22
4	Russian (ru) Шамаль		15
5	Hebrew (he) שמאל (רוח)		14
6	Polish (pl) Szamal		7
7	Persian (fa) شمال (باد)		6
8	Japanese (ja) シャマール		6
9	Chinese (zh) 夏马风		6
10	Greek (el) Σαμάλ (άνεμος)		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 "Shamal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ريح الشمال		0
2	Catalan (ca) Xamal (vent)		0
3	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		0
4	Greek (el) Σαμάλ (άνεμος)		0
5	English (en) Shamal (wind)		0
6	Spanish (es) Shamal (viento)		0
7	Persian (fa) شمال (باد)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Shamal (tuuli)		0
9	French (fr) Chammal		0
10	Hebrew (he) שמאל (רוח)		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 "Shamal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Shamal		215
2	Russian (ru) Шамаль		198
3	English (en) Shamal (wind)		68
4	Serbian (sr) Шамал		61
5	Chinese (zh) 夏马风		35
6	Persian (fa) شمال (باد)		32
7	Arabic (ar) ريح الشمال		17
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Shamal		14
9	French (fr) Chammal		10
10	German (de) Schamal (Wind)		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ريح الشمال
ca	Catalan Xamal (vent)
de	German Schamal (Wind)
el	Greek Σαμάλ (άνεμος)
en	English Shamal (wind)
es	Spanish Shamal (viento)
fa	Persian شمال (باد)
fi	Finnish Shamal (tuuli)
fr	French Chammal
he	Hebrew שמאל (רוח)
hr	Croatian Šamal
it	Italian Shamal (vento)
ja	Japanese シャマール
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Shamal
pl	Polish Szamal
pt	Portuguese Shamal
ru	Russian Шамаль
sh	Serbo-Croatian Šamal
sl	Slovenian Šamal (veter)
sr	Serbian Шамал
uk	Ukrainian Шамаль (вітер)
zh	Chinese 夏马风

Best Rank

Portuguese: #284094 01.2010

Global: #259294 05.2013

Best Rank

Portuguese: #33544 12.2024

Global: #22531 08.2011

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