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Quality:

Shadow - specific area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by a specific object or person. Article “Shadow” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 5484th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2688th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Shadow”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5484th place) and edited by 1895 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3413 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #174 in April 2023
  • Global: #1449 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2688 in June 2025
  • Global: #13619 in November 2008

There are 49 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Schatten
56.9234
2Chinese (zh)
53.964
3English (en)
Shadow
46.4799
4Italian (it)
Ombra
46.3234
5Hebrew (he)
צל
41.7659
6French (fr)
Ombre
37.0849
7Tamil (ta)
நிழல் (ஒளியியல்)
27.7512
8Esperanto (eo)
Ombro
26.4119
9Ukrainian (uk)
Тінь
25.9245
10Spanish (es)
Sombra
23.1954
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shadow
3 941 595
2Spanish (es)
Sombra
2 100 207
3German (de)
Schatten
964 600
4Portuguese (pt)
Sombra
540 420
5French (fr)
Ombre
508 766
6Japanese (ja)
471 874
7Russian (ru)
Тень
382 491
8Polish (pl)
Cień
288 669
9Arabic (ar)
ظل
279 664
10Dutch (nl)
Schaduw
274 852
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shadow
5 967
2Simple English (simple)
Shadow
1 652
3Spanish (es)
Sombra
1 102
4Arabic (ar)
ظل
1 084
5German (de)
Schatten
985
6Russian (ru)
Тень
778
7Japanese (ja)
765
8Chinese (zh)
474
9Korean (ko)
그림자
473
10French (fr)
Ombre
462
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Shadow" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shadow
500
2German (de)
Schatten
258
3French (fr)
Ombre
101
4Dutch (nl)
Schaduw
92
5Spanish (es)
Sombra
84
6Hebrew (he)
צל
65
7Russian (ru)
Тень
60
8Italian (it)
Ombra
51
9Portuguese (pt)
Sombra
42
10Japanese (ja)
40
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Shadow" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shadow
2
2Spanish (es)
Sombra
2
3Persian (fa)
سایه
1
4Hebrew (he)
צל
1
5Italian (it)
Ombra
1
6Arabic (ar)
ظل
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Kölgə
0
8Belarusian (be)
Цень
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Сянка
0
10Catalan (ca)
Ombra
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Shadow" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Schatten
265
2Hebrew (he)
צל
248
3English (en)
Shadow
218
4Italian (it)
Ombra
182
5French (fr)
Ombre
168
6Persian (fa)
سایه
166
7Japanese (ja)
161
8Portuguese (pt)
Sombra
159
9Spanish (es)
Sombra
157
10Danish (da)
Skygge
114
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ظل
azAzerbaijani
Kölgə
beBelarusian
Цень
bgBulgarian
Сянка
caCatalan
Ombra
csCzech
Stín
daDanish
Skygge
deGerman
Schatten
elGreek
Σκιά
enEnglish
Shadow
eoEsperanto
Ombro
esSpanish
Sombra
etEstonian
Vari
euBasque
Itzal
faPersian
سایه
fiFinnish
Varjo
frFrench
Ombre
glGalician
Sombra
heHebrew
צל
hiHindi
छाया
huHungarian
Árnyék (optikai jelenség)
hyArmenian
Ստվեր
idIndonesian
Bayang-bayang
itItalian
Ombra
jaJapanese
kkKazakh
Көлеңке
koKorean
그림자
laLatin
Umbra
ltLithuanian
Šešėlis
msMalay
Bayang
nlDutch
Schaduw
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Skugge
noNorwegian
Skygge
plPolish
Cień
ptPortuguese
Sombra
roRomanian
Umbră
ruRussian
Тень
simpleSimple English
Shadow
skSlovak
Tieň
srSerbian
Сјенка
svSwedish
Skugga
taTamil
நிழல் (ஒளியியல்)
thThai
เงา
trTurkish
Gölge
ukUkrainian
Тінь
uzUzbek
Soya
viVietnamese
Bóng (hình ảnh)
zhChinese
zhminnanMin Nan
O͘-iáⁿ

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2688
06.2025
Global:
#13619
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#174
04.2023
Global:
#1449
12.2010

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shadow from Wikipedia articles about Human Shadow Etched in Stone, Darkness, Superluminal motion, Kalfu and Umbra, penumbra and antumbra. Whereas reading the article about Shadow people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Shadow, Umbra, penumbra and antumbra, Skygge, Shadow people and Shade.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Shadow
es: Sombra
pt: Sombra
fr: Ombre
ja:
pl: Cień
ar: ظل
it: Ombra
tr: Gölge
zh:
he: צל
ro: Umbră
cs: Stín
fi: Varjo
sv: Skugga
simple: Shadow
sk: Tieň
uz: Soya
ca: Ombra
no: Skygge
da: Skygge
eo: Ombro
ms: Bayang
et: Vari
nn: Skugge
gl: Sombra
eu: Itzal
la: Umbra
zhminnan: O͘-iáⁿ

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