Shang dynasty

Quality:

Shang dynasty - the first ancient Chinese dynasty to leave historical records (1600-1046 BC); the empire ruled by this dynasty. Article “Shang dynasty” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.09 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5498^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7634^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6431^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Shang dynasty”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5498^th place) and edited by 2887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7634^th place).

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #127 in June 2018
• Global: #1748 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1429 in July 2020
• Global: #8425 in February 2025

There are 51 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) 商朝		100
2	Catalan (ca) Dinastia Shang		100
3	Slovenian (sl) Dinastija Šang		100
4	English (en) Shang dynasty		97.0167
5	Swedish (sv) Shangdynastin		88.2431
6	French (fr) Dynastie Shang		81.7226
7	Hungarian (hu) Sang-dinasztia		72.7707
8	Croatian (hr) Dinastija Shang		70.8651
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Dinastija Shang		54.9888
10	Portuguese (pt) Dinastia Shang		46.0077

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shang dynasty		7 449 789
2	Japanese (ja) 殷		3 249 641
3	Chinese (zh) 商朝		3 016 604
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nhà Thương		794 671
5	Spanish (es) Dinastía Shang		749 253
6	Russian (ru) Шан (династия)		651 082
7	Korean (ko) 상나라		419 091
8	French (fr) Dynastie Shang		360 531
9	German (de) Shang-Dynastie		342 026
10	Thai (th) ราชวงศ์ชาง		319 387

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) Shang dynasty		29 750
2	Chinese (zh) 商朝		16 460
3	Japanese (ja) 殷		14 549
4	Russian (ru) Шан (династия)		4 777
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nhà Thương		3 751
6	Spanish (es) Dinastía Shang		1 978
7	French (fr) Dynastie Shang		1 669
8	Thai (th) ราชวงศ์ชาง		1 575
9	Korean (ko) 상나라		1 488
10	German (de) Shang-Dynastie		1 139

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shang dynasty		984
2	Chinese (zh) 商朝		298
3	French (fr) Dynastie Shang		143
4	Japanese (ja) 殷		115
5	German (de) Shang-Dynastie		114
6	Dutch (nl) Shang-dynastie		95
7	Italian (it) Dinastia Shang		91
8	Russian (ru) Шан (династия)		90
9	Vietnamese (vi) Nhà Thương		83
10	Spanish (es) Dinastía Shang		76

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) Shang dynasty		3
2	Estonian (et) Shangi dünastia		1
3	Japanese (ja) 殷		1
4	Serbian (sr) Династија Шанг		1
5	Chinese (zh) 商朝		1
6	Arabic (ar) مملكة شانغ		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şan sülaləsi		0
8	Belarusian (be) Шан (дынастыя)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Шан		0
10	Catalan (ca) Dinastia Shang		0

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

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