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Shia Islam

Quality:

Shia Islam - second-most populous Islamic denomination. Article “Shia Islam” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 3603rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 4278th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1324th most popular in all topics.
The 847th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 1921st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 310th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 1415th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Shia Islam”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4278th place) and edited by 6760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (847th place).

The article is cited 424 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6655th place) and cited 60777 times in all languages (2684th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #424 in July 2013
  • Global: #174 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #670 in March 2015
  • Global: #257 in November 2015

There are 54 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
1Armenian (hy)
Շիա իսլամ
100
2German (de)
Schia
99.8137
3Chinese (zh)
什叶派
99.5957
4Korean (ko)
시아파
97.729
5Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Šijitizam
97.7173
6Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
94.8208
7English (en)
Shia Islam
90.4782
8Finnish (fi)
Šiialaisuus
79.0309
9Thai (th)
ชีอะฮ์
77.2362
10Russian (ru)
Шииты
76.8422
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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 "Shia Islam" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shia Islam
25 902 426
2Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
8 937 649
3Russian (ru)
Шииты
5 032 633
4French (fr)
Chiisme
4 661 467
5German (de)
Schia
3 819 957
6Indonesian (id)
Syiah
3 587 928
7Turkish (tr)
Şiilik
3 347 125
8Spanish (es)
Chiismo
3 294 846
9Persian (fa)
شیعه
3 232 555
10Italian (it)
Sciismo
1 944 301
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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 "Shia Islam" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shia Islam
312 329
2Russian (ru)
Шииты
54 322
3Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
51 316
4Spanish (es)
Chiismo
46 087
5Chinese (zh)
什叶派
36 728
6French (fr)
Chiisme
36 621
7Turkish (tr)
Şiilik
28 550
8Italian (it)
Sciismo
25 796
9Indonesian (id)
Syiah
23 641
10Polish (pl)
Szyizm
19 428
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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 "Shia Islam" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shia Islam
2 136
2Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
439
3French (fr)
Chiisme
398
4German (de)
Schia
394
5Persian (fa)
شیعه
319
6Russian (ru)
Шииты
245
7Turkish (tr)
Şiilik
238
8Spanish (es)
Chiismo
193
9Dutch (nl)
Sjiisme
191
10Italian (it)
Sciismo
178
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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 "Shia Islam" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shia Islam
10
2Russian (ru)
Шииты
10
3Korean (ko)
시아파
5
4German (de)
Schia
4
5Spanish (es)
Chiismo
4
6French (fr)
Chiisme
3
7Italian (it)
Sciismo
3
8Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
2
9Azerbaijani (az)
Şiəlik
2
10Dutch (nl)
Sjiisme
2
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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 "Shia Islam" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shia Islam
10 121
2Arabic (ar)
الشيعة
5 621
3Persian (fa)
شیعه
4 936
4French (fr)
Chiisme
2 927
5Russian (ru)
Шииты
2 901
6Urdu (ur)
اہل تشیع
1 966
7German (de)
Schia
1 861
8Turkish (tr)
Şiilik
1 804
9Spanish (es)
Chiismo
1 768
10Hebrew (he)
אסלאם שיעי
1 562
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الشيعة
azAzerbaijani
Şiəlik
beBelarusian
Шыіты
bgBulgarian
Шиитски ислям
caCatalan
Xiisme
csCzech
Ší'itský islám
daDanish
Shia-islam
deGerman
Schia
elGreek
Σιισμός
enEnglish
Shia Islam
eoEsperanto
Ŝijaismo
esSpanish
Chiismo
etEstonian
Šiiidid
euBasque
Xiismo
faPersian
شیعه
fiFinnish
Šiialaisuus
frFrench
Chiisme
glGalician
Xiísmo
heHebrew
אסלאם שיעי
hiHindi
शिया इस्लाम
hrCroatian
Šijizam
huHungarian
Síita iszlám
hyArmenian
Շիա իսլամ
idIndonesian
Syiah
itItalian
Sciismo
jaJapanese
シーア派
kaGeorgian
შიიზმი
kkKazakh
Шииттер
koKorean
시아파
laLatin
Secta Siitica
ltLithuanian
Šiizmas
msMalay
Syiah
nlDutch
Sjiisme
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sjiaislam
noNorwegian
Sjiaislam
plPolish
Szyizm
ptPortuguese
Xiismo
roRomanian
Islamul șiit
ruRussian
Шииты
shSerbo-Croatian
Šijitizam
simpleSimple English
Shia Islam
skSlovak
Šiitizmus
slSlovenian
Šiitizem
srSerbian
Шиизам
svSwedish
Shia
taTamil
சியா இசுலாம்
thThai
ชีอะฮ์
trTurkish
Şiilik
ukUkrainian
Шиїзм
urUrdu
اہل تشیع
uzUzbek
Shialik
viVietnamese
Hồi giáo Shia
zhChinese
什叶派
zhminnanMin Nan
Shia

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#670
03.2015
Global:
#257
11.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#424
07.2013
Global:
#174
05.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global 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 Shia Islam from Wikipedia articles about Sunni Islam, Hezbollah, Iran, Zohran Mamdani and Islam. Whereas reading the article about Shia Islam people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sunni Islam, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Twelver Shiism, Ibadi Islam and Zaidism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

de: Schia
id: Syiah
pl: Szyizm
pt: Xiismo
ms: Syiah
sv: Shia
simple: Shia Islam
ca: Xiisme
eu: Xiismo
zhminnan: Shia

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