Clay animation

Quality:

Clay animation - stop-motion animation made using malleable clay models. Article “Clay animation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.6 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 “Clay animation”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 813 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1936 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #159 in March 2010
• Global: #6393 in April 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7976 in January 2012
• Global: #10714 in October 2011

There are 23 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) Claymation		48.7214
2	Catalan (ca) Animació de plastilina		34.9833
3	Esperanto (eo) Argil-animacio		27.1097
4	Spanish (es) Plastimación		17.7854
5	German (de) Knetanimation		17.0702
6	Indonesian (id) Animasi tanah liat		15.4103
7	French (fr) Animation de pâte à modeler		14.529
8	Russian (ru) Пластилиновая анимация		11.8669
9	Simple English (simple) Clay animation		11.3035
10	Arabic (ar) رسوم متحركة طينية		11.0783

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Claymation		2 296 293
2	Japanese (ja) クレイアニメ		441 913
3	Russian (ru) Пластилиновая анимация		259 957
4	Spanish (es) Plastimación		222 768
5	German (de) Knetanimation		186 682
6	Italian (it) Claymation		145 454
7	French (fr) Animation de pâte à modeler		142 447
8	Chinese (zh) 黏土动画		78 230
9	Portuguese (pt) Claymation		75 973
10	Dutch (nl) Klei-animatie		52 423

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) Claymation		7 264
2	Japanese (ja) クレイアニメ		1 189
3	Russian (ru) Пластилиновая анимация		1 007
4	Simple English (simple) Clay animation		452
5	Italian (it) Claymation		405
6	French (fr) Animation de pâte à modeler		342
7	Chinese (zh) 黏土动画		336
8	Spanish (es) Plastimación		322
9	German (de) Knetanimation		309
10	Portuguese (pt) Claymation		208

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Claymation		303
2	French (fr) Animation de pâte à modeler		70
3	Russian (ru) Пластилиновая анимация		66
4	German (de) Knetanimation		58
5	Japanese (ja) クレイアニメ		55
6	Italian (it) Claymation		52
7	Dutch (nl) Klei-animatie		35
8	Spanish (es) Plastimación		33
9	Chinese (zh) 黏土动画		23
10	Catalan (ca) Animació de plastilina		18

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) Claymation		2
2	German (de) Knetanimation		1
3	Persian (fa) پویانمایی خمیری		1
4	Japanese (ja) クレイアニメ		1
5	Arabic (ar) رسوم متحركة طينية		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пластилинова анимация		0
7	Catalan (ca) Animació de plastilina		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Argil-animacio		0
9	Spanish (es) Plastimación		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vaha-animaatio		0

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

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