Hvalhaj

Quality:

Whale shark - species of fish. This taxon is the 148^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 156^th most popular taxon in Danish Wikipedia. Article “Hvalhaj” in Danish Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 5349^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia.

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The 2519^th most editable in Danish Wikipedia.

The 156^th most popular in taxon in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7042^nd most popular in all topics.

The 6180^th most popular in AI.

The 148^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Danish Wikipedia:

da

The 5750^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

da

The 2307^th most editable in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6208^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9089^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Hvalhaj” was edited by 1 authors in Danish Wikipedia (2307^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (9089^th place).

Since the creation of article “Hvalhaj”, its content was written by 74 registered users of Danish Wikipedia (2519^th place) and edited by 3207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6180^th place).

Whale shark is on the 156^th place in local ranking of taxon in Danish Wikipedia and on the 148^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 3326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #172 in December 2015
• Global: #547 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #587 in November 2010
• Global: #2239 in February 2012

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	English (en) Whale shark		99.6902
2	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		94.8267
3	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		94.8235
4	Armenian (hy) Կետանման շնաձուկ		92.575
5	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		90.1763
6	Estonian (et) Vaalhai		85.638
7	Hungarian (hu) Cetcápa		84.8841
8	Malay (ms) Yu paus		76.5749
9	Arabic (ar) قرش حوتي		69.8104
10	Simple English (simple) Whale shark		68.5043

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whale shark		13 560 578
2	German (de) Walhai		2 810 655
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		2 677 140
4	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		2 192 872
5	French (fr) Requin-baleine		1 774 655
6	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		1 720 253
7	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		1 027 927
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		1 009 919
9	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		929 466
10	Polish (pl) Rekin wielorybi		772 143

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) Whale shark		63 893
2	German (de) Walhai		11 879
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		10 989
4	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		10 039
5	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		7 864
6	French (fr) Requin-baleine		7 010
7	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		6 800
8	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		4 999
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		4 633
10	Hebrew (he) כריש לווייתני		2 660

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whale shark		908
2	German (de) Walhai		231
3	French (fr) Requin-baleine		196
4	Dutch (nl) Walvishaai		168
5	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		133
6	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		128
7	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		104
8	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		99
9	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		93
10	Norwegian (no) Hvalhai		81

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) Whale shark		6
2	German (de) Walhai		2
3	Hebrew (he) כריש לווייתני		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Акула китова		2
5	Danish (da) Hvalhaj		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Balenŝarko		1
7	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		1
8	French (fr) Requin-baleine		1
9	Indonesian (id) Hiu paus		1
10	Malay (ms) Yu paus		1

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

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