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Shiva

Quality:

Shiva - one of the principal deities of Hinduism. Article “Shiva” in German Wikipedia has 40.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
German Wikipedia:
The 6377th most popular in German Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1531st most popular in all topics.
The 2137th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2972nd most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 5984th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Shiva” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5984th place).

Since the creation of article “Shiva”, its content was written by 268 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 4924 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2137th place).

The article is cited 978 times in German Wikipedia and cited 28781 times in all languages (5711th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1725 in December 2016
  • Global: #171 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #1361 in September 2010
  • Global: #543 in February 2023

There are 55 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
1English (en)
Shiva
100
2Korean (ko)
시바
100
3Japanese (ja)
シヴァ
99
4Italian (it)
Siva (divinità)
95.6541
5Russian (ru)
Шива
72.8226
6Tamil (ta)
சிவன்
68.7828
7Polish (pl)
Śiwa
67.9318
8Malay (ms)
Mahadeva
67.0755
9Latin (la)
Sivus
66.3627
10Spanish (es)
Shiva
65.6856
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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 "Shiva" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shiva
37 526 927
2Spanish (es)
Shiva
5 015 534
3Japanese (ja)
シヴァ
3 951 109
4Russian (ru)
Шива
3 698 253
5French (fr)
Shiva
3 369 755
6German (de)
Shiva
2 895 049
7Hindi (hi)
शिव
2 620 344
8Chinese (zh)
湿婆
1 993 652
9Portuguese (pt)
Xiva
1 962 233
10Italian (it)
Siva (divinità)
1 835 384
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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 "Shiva" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shiva
139 528
2Russian (ru)
Шива
12 536
3Hindi (hi)
शिव
10 355
4Japanese (ja)
シヴァ
9 711
5French (fr)
Shiva
9 277
6Chinese (zh)
湿婆
8 698
7Spanish (es)
Shiva
8 032
8German (de)
Shiva
5 845
9Thai (th)
พระศิวะ
3 891
10Italian (it)
Siva (divinità)
3 651
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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 "Shiva" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shiva
1 871
2German (de)
Shiva
268
3French (fr)
Shiva
263
4Hindi (hi)
शिव
219
5Italian (it)
Siva (divinità)
194
6Russian (ru)
Шива
142
7Norwegian (no)
Shiva
139
8Spanish (es)
Shiva
137
9Dutch (nl)
Shiva
118
10Tamil (ta)
சிவன்
109
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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 "Shiva" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shiva
7
2Korean (ko)
시바
5
3German (de)
Shiva
2
4French (fr)
Shiva
2
5Japanese (ja)
シヴァ
2
6Portuguese (pt)
Xiva
2
7Hungarian (hu)
Siva
1
8Indonesian (id)
Siwa
1
9Malay (ms)
Mahadeva
1
10Simple English (simple)
Shiva
1
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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 "Shiva" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shiva
8 445
2Tamil (ta)
சிவன்
4 512
3Hindi (hi)
शिव
1 259
4French (fr)
Shiva
1 080
5Spanish (es)
Shiva
1 026
6German (de)
Shiva
978
7Russian (ru)
Шива
959
8Japanese (ja)
シヴァ
812
9Italian (it)
Siva (divinità)
731
10Thai (th)
พระศิวะ
662
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Scores

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

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شيفا
azAzerbaijani
Şiva
beBelarusian
Шыва
bgBulgarian
Шива
caCatalan
Xiva (hinduisme)
csCzech
Šiva
daDanish
Shiva
deGerman
Shiva
elGreek
Σίβα
enEnglish
Shiva
eoEsperanto
Ŝivo
esSpanish
Shiva
etEstonian
Šiva
euBasque
Shiva
faPersian
شیوا
fiFinnish
Shiva
frFrench
Shiva
glGalician
Shiva
heHebrew
שיווה
hiHindi
शिव
hrCroatian
Šiva
huHungarian
Siva
hyArmenian
Շիվա
idIndonesian
Siwa
itItalian
Siva (divinità)
jaJapanese
シヴァ
kaGeorgian
შივა
kkKazakh
Шива
koKorean
시바
laLatin
Sivus
ltLithuanian
Šiva
msMalay
Mahadeva
nlDutch
Shiva
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sjiva
noNorwegian
Shiva
plPolish
Śiwa
ptPortuguese
Xiva
roRomanian
Shiva
ruRussian
Шива
shSerbo-Croatian
Šiva
simpleSimple English
Shiva
skSlovak
Šiva
slSlovenian
Šiva
srSerbian
Шива
svSwedish
Shiva
taTamil
சிவன்
thThai
พระศิวะ
trTurkish
Şiva
ukUkrainian
Шива
urUrdu
شیو
uzUzbek
Shiva
viVietnamese
Shiva
voVolapük
Siva
zhChinese
湿婆
zhminnanMin Nan
Shiva

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1361
09.2010
Global:
#543
02.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1725
12.2016
Global:
#171
01.2001

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 Shiva from Wikipedia articles about Vishnu, Kali, Ganesha, God Brahma and Trimurti. Whereas reading the article about Shiva people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Parvati, Vishnu, God Brahma, Ganesha and Trimurti.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: Shiva
es: Shiva
fr: Shiva
de: Shiva
zh: 湿婆
pt: Xiva
pl: Śiwa
sv: Shiva
nl: Shiva
no: Shiva
id: Siwa
vi: Shiva
tr: Şiva
hu: Siva
cs: Šiva
simple: Shiva
fi: Shiva
ro: Shiva
ko: 시바
da: Shiva
hr: Šiva
lt: Šiva
sl: Šiva
sk: Šiva
sh: Šiva
ur: شیو
et: Šiva
nn: Sjiva
eu: Shiva
eo: Ŝivo
uz: Shiva
la: Sivus
az: Şiva
gl: Shiva
zhminnan: Shiva
vo: Siva

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