Hookah

Quality:

Hookah - type of water pipe used for smoking. Article “Hookah” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2832^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2830^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Hookah”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4592 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2830^th place).

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1840 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1422 in May 2017
• Global: #510 in August 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4859 in July 2021
• Global: #839 in July 2010

There are 47 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	Malay (ms) Syisyah		100
2	English (en) Hookah		96.0966
3	Tamil (ta) ஹுக்கா		75.9268
4	German (de) Shisha		72.9547
5	Hungarian (hu) Vízipipa		52.5936
6	Russian (ru) Кальян		48.7686
7	French (fr) Narguilé		46.5336
8	Korean (ko) 물담배		45.8383
9	Romanian (ro) Narghilea		44.5882
10	Persian (fa) قلیان		41.5393

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hookah		23 553 902
2	German (de) Shisha		4 594 795
3	Spanish (es) Narguile		4 585 808
4	Portuguese (pt) Narguilé		3 727 811
5	Russian (ru) Кальян		3 555 188
6	Japanese (ja) 水タバコ		2 990 673
7	French (fr) Narguilé		2 201 584
8	Polish (pl) Szisza		1 921 691
9	Italian (it) Narghilè		1 901 040
10	Persian (fa) قلیان		1 143 303

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) Hookah		29 207
2	Japanese (ja) 水タバコ		6 180
3	Russian (ru) Кальян		4 882
4	Spanish (es) Narguile		3 507
5	Persian (fa) قلیان		3 231
6	German (de) Shisha		3 179
7	French (fr) Narguilé		2 720
8	Italian (it) Narghilè		2 437
9	Chinese (zh) 水煙		2 380
10	Polish (pl) Szisza		1 575

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hookah		1 621
2	German (de) Shisha		456
3	French (fr) Narguilé		247
4	Russian (ru) Кальян		178
5	Spanish (es) Narguile		166
6	Portuguese (pt) Narguilé		145
7	Hebrew (he) נרגילה		144
8	Persian (fa) قلیان		141
9	Dutch (nl) Waterpijp		134
10	Polish (pl) Szisza		115

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	Japanese (ja) 水タバコ		2
2	Czech (cs) Vodní dýmka		1
3	English (en) Hookah		1
4	Croatian (hr) Nargila		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Vízipipa		1
6	Slovak (sk) Vodná fajka		1
7	Tamil (ta) ஹுக்கா		1
8	Arabic (ar) نارجيلة		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qəlyan		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Наргиле		0

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

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