Cave painting

Quality:

Cave painting - paintings found on cave walls and ceilings. Article “Cave painting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.99 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Cave painting”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1874 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6374 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #501 in December 2011
• Global: #2672 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2200 in October 2014
• Global: #10011 in September 2020

There are 42 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) Cave painting		92.5052
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hòlemåleri		86.6873
3	Hungarian (hu) Barlangrajz		79.9023
4	Spanish (es) Pintura rupestre en cuevas		74.2579
5	Armenian (hy) Քարանձավային նկարչություն		66.4437
6	Swedish (sv) Grottmålning		50.736
7	French (fr) Art pariétal		50.2009
8	German (de) Höhlenmalerei		50.1498
9	Hebrew (he) ציורי מערות		50.0729
10	Czech (cs) Jeskynní malířství		49.8465

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cave painting		7 473 669
2	German (de) Höhlenmalerei		1 244 480
3	Russian (ru) Пещерная живопись		858 871
4	French (fr) Art pariétal		742 388
5	Italian (it) Pittura rupestre		654 216
6	Indonesian (id) Lukisan gua		639 595
7	Japanese (ja) 洞窟壁画		459 086
8	Polish (pl) Malarstwo jaskiniowe		270 154
9	Hungarian (hu) Barlangrajz		259 624
10	Dutch (nl) Grotschildering		190 575

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) Cave painting		19 798
2	German (de) Höhlenmalerei		2 391
3	Russian (ru) Пещерная живопись		1 717
4	French (fr) Art pariétal		1 481
5	Japanese (ja) 洞窟壁画		1 270
6	Italian (it) Pittura rupestre		677
7	Spanish (es) Pintura rupestre en cuevas		427
8	Polish (pl) Malarstwo jaskiniowe		413
9	Persian (fa) غارنگاره		373
10	Chinese (zh) 石洞壁画		325

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cave painting		673
2	German (de) Höhlenmalerei		279
3	French (fr) Art pariétal		118
4	Italian (it) Pittura rupestre		88
5	Hungarian (hu) Barlangrajz		76
6	Russian (ru) Пещерная живопись		63
7	Dutch (nl) Grotschildering		50
8	Swedish (sv) Grottmålning		41
9	Czech (cs) Jeskynní malířství		35
10	Hebrew (he) ציורי מערות		32

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	English (en) Cave painting		4
2	Japanese (ja) 洞窟壁画		1
3	Arabic (ar) رسوم الكهوف		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Mağara rəsmi		0
5	Belarusian (be) Пячорны жывапіс		0
6	Czech (cs) Jeskynní malířství		0
7	Danish (da) Hulemaleri		0
8	German (de) Höhlenmalerei		0
9	Greek (el) Ζωγραφική σπηλαίου		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Prahomaj pentraĵoj		0

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

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