Pottwal

Quality:

Physeter macrocephalus - largest species of toothed whale. This taxon is the 95^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 126^th most popular taxon in German Wikipedia. Article "Pottwal" in German Wikipedia has 68.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 36 references and 14 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4703^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 5695^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 126^th most popular in taxon in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4695^th most popular in all topics.

The 3870^th most popular in AI.

The 95^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4255^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5164^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Pottwal" was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Pottwal", its content was written by 336 registered users of German Wikipedia (5695^th place) and edited by 3882 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3870^th place).

Physeter macrocephalus is on the 126^th place in local ranking of taxon in German Wikipedia and on the 95^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 258 times in German Wikipedia and cited 6664 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1019 in April 2016
• Global: #663 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1071 in January 2016
• Global: #1150 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		100
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		99.6022
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		98.9685
7	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		98.7406
8	French (fr) Grand cachalot		98.1869
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cá nhà táng		90.6684
10	Slovak (sk) Vorvaň tuponosý		77.7505

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sperm whale		16 784 267
2	German (de) Pottwal		3 298 042
3	Russian (ru) Кашалот		3 260 041
4	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		2 697 872
5	French (fr) Grand cachalot		2 073 406
6	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		1 816 656
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1 532 801
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		1 333 283
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		824 852
10	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		722 824

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		70 632
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		17 607
3	German (de) Pottwal		16 273
4	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		14 147
5	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		13 955
6	French (fr) Grand cachalot		9 520
7	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		8 101
8	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		5 138
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		4 813
10	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		3 532

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		1 160
2	German (de) Pottwal		336
3	French (fr) Grand cachalot		240
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		192
5	Russian (ru) Кашалот		155
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		151
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		148
8	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		103
9	Hebrew (he) ראשתן גדול-ראש		91
10	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		89

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) Sperm whale		5
2	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		2
3	Dutch (nl) Potvis		2
4	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		2
5	German (de) Pottwal		1
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		1
7	Persian (fa) نهنگ عنبر		1
8	Hebrew (he) ראשתן גדול-ראש		1
9	Indonesian (id) Paus sperma		1
10	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1

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

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