Pottwal

Quality:

Sperm whale - largest species of toothed whale. This taxon is the 92^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 123^rd most popular taxon in German Wikipedia. Article “Pottwal” in German Wikipedia has 74.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 42 references and 16 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:

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The 4477^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 5721^st most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 123^rd most popular in taxon in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4580^th most popular in all topics.

The 3927^th most popular in AI.

The 92^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2974^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3935^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pottwal”, its content was written by 349 registered users of German Wikipedia (5721^st place) and edited by 4016 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3927^th place).

Sperm whale is on the 123^rd place in local ranking of taxon in German Wikipedia and on the 92^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 279 times in German Wikipedia and cited 7029 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1076 in April 2016
• Global: #663 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #638 in April 2026
• Global: #1161 in January 2012

There are 53 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, 2026 (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) Sperm whale		100
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		100
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		100
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		100
5	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		100
6	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		99.6015
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		98.0349
8	French (fr) Grand cachalot		97.9157
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cá nhà táng		90.3589
10	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		78.1458

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sperm whale		18 375 149
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		3 845 762
3	German (de) Pottwal		3 673 712
4	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		2 976 946
5	French (fr) Grand cachalot		2 301 315
6	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		1 959 597
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1 739 609
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		1 454 851
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		922 943
10	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		773 010

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) Sperm whale		76 700
2	German (de) Pottwal		16 988
3	Russian (ru) Кашалот		13 252
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		11 808
5	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		11 334
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		6 669
7	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		5 962
8	Turkish (tr) İspermeçet balinası		5 117
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		4 657
10	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		3 755

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sperm whale		1 197
2	German (de) Pottwal		349
3	French (fr) Grand cachalot		266
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		200
5	Russian (ru) Кашалот		161
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		158
7	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		154
8	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		108
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		98
10	Hebrew (he) ראשתן גדול-ראש		93

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	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		4
2	English (en) Sperm whale		3
3	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		2
4	Russian (ru) Кашалот		2
5	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kaşalot		1
7	Catalan (ca) Catxalot		1
8	Czech (cs) Vorvaň obrovský		1
9	Basque (eu) Kaxalote		1
10	French (fr) Grand cachalot		1

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

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