Tilikum (Orca)

Quality:

Tilikum - bull orca who lived in captivity at SeaWorld. Article “Tilikum (Orca)” in German Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7352^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Tilikum (Orca)”, its content was written by 57 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 883 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in German Wikipedia and cited 131 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #743 in January 2017
• Global: #128 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1958 in August 2022
• Global: #1246 in January 2017

There are 22 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) Tilikum (orca)		61.6789
2	Hebrew (he) טיליקום (קטלן)		43.6226
3	Ukrainian (uk) Тілікум		41.0896
4	Chinese (zh) 提利康 (虎鯨)		40.9021
5	Italian (it) Tilikum (orca)		38.906
6	Spanish (es) Tilikum		35.0209
7	Japanese (ja) ティリクム (シャチ)		34.9203
8	Russian (ru) Тиликум		32.4781
9	Armenian (hy) Տիլիկում (խոյադելֆին)		32.3517
10	German (de) Tilikum (Orca)		30.061

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tilikum (orca)		12 408 210
2	German (de) Tilikum (Orca)		1 168 235
3	Spanish (es) Tilikum		744 813
4	French (fr) Tilikum (orque)		620 389
5	Japanese (ja) ティリクム (シャチ)		382 606
6	Russian (ru) Тиликум		163 323
7	Dutch (nl) Tilikum		145 760
8	Portuguese (pt) Tilikum (orca)		134 187
9	Chinese (zh) 提利康 (虎鯨)		120 760
10	Italian (it) Tilikum (orca)		105 333

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) Tilikum (orca)		97 261
2	Japanese (ja) ティリクム (シャチ)		11 605
3	Italian (it) Tilikum (orca)		7 815
4	Spanish (es) Tilikum		6 558
5	German (de) Tilikum (Orca)		4 901
6	French (fr) Tilikum (orque)		4 203
7	Russian (ru) Тиликум		2 066
8	Chinese (zh) 提利康 (虎鯨)		1 323
9	Portuguese (pt) Tilikum (orca)		1 205
10	Dutch (nl) Tilikum		1 117

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tilikum (orca)		541
2	German (de) Tilikum (Orca)		57
3	French (fr) Tilikum (orque)		54
4	Spanish (es) Tilikum		50
5	Chinese (zh) 提利康 (虎鯨)		23
6	Japanese (ja) ティリクム (シャチ)		22
7	Russian (ru) Тиликум		19
8	Norwegian (no) Tilikum		18
9	Hebrew (he) טיליקום (קטלן)		15
10	Portuguese (pt) Tilikum (orca)		15

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) Tilikum		3
2	English (en) Tilikum (orca)		1
3	Italian (it) Tilikum (orca)		1
4	Turkish (tr) Tilikum		1
5	Arabic (ar) تيليكوم (حوت قاتل)		0
6	Danish (da) Tilikum		0
7	German (de) Tilikum (Orca)		0
8	Basque (eu) Tilikum		0
9	Persian (fa) تیلیکوم (نهنگ قاتل)		0
10	French (fr) Tilikum (orque)		0

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

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