African elephant

Quality:

African elephant - genus comprising two living elephant species. This taxon is the 971^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 615^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “African elephant” in English Wikipedia has 91.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 106 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6682^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 615^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 971^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8775^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “African elephant” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8775^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “African elephant”, its content was written by 988 registered users of English Wikipedia (6682^nd place) and edited by 2009 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

African elephant is on the 615^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 971^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 668 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3186 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #229 in August 2006
• Global: #861 in August 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4556 in September 2014
• Global: #11978 in September 2014

There are 42 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) African elephant		91.6676
2	Finnish (fi) Afrikannorsut		83.3848
3	German (de) Afrikanische Elefanten		77.6403
4	Arabic (ar) فيل إفريقي		65.8642
5	Russian (ru) Африканские слоны		57.7003
6	Chinese (zh) 非洲象		48.5361
7	Hindi (hi) अफ़्रीकी हाथी		44.7412
8	Hebrew (he) פיל אפריקני		42.5811
9	Simple English (simple) African elephant		39.8136
10	Malay (ms) Gajah Afrika		38.2309

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) African elephant		6 080 565
2	Russian (ru) Африканские слоны		587 877
3	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-africano		512 122
4	French (fr) Éléphant d'Afrique		424 313
5	Spanish (es) Loxodonta		333 855
6	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse olifanten		289 761
7	Chinese (zh) 非洲象		232 596
8	Hebrew (he) פיל אפריקני		231 914
9	Finnish (fi) Afrikannorsut		217 110
10	Italian (it) Loxodonta		149 484

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) African elephant		19 653
2	Russian (ru) Африканские слоны		3 736
3	Chinese (zh) 非洲象		2 666
4	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-africano		1 766
5	Hebrew (he) פיל אפריקני		1 500
6	French (fr) Éléphant d'Afrique		1 435
7	Simple English (simple) African elephant		1 009
8	Spanish (es) Loxodonta		939
9	Arabic (ar) فيل إفريقي		864
10	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse olifanten		694

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) African elephant		988
2	Hebrew (he) פיל אפריקני		107
3	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse olifanten		88
4	Finnish (fi) Afrikannorsut		87
5	French (fr) Éléphant d'Afrique		78
6	Russian (ru) Африканские слоны		60
7	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-africano		58
8	German (de) Afrikanische Elefanten		47
9	Italian (it) Loxodonta		44
10	Norwegian (no) Afrikanske elefanter		40

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) African elephant		10
2	Estonian (et) Aafrika elevant		1
3	Arabic (ar) فيل إفريقي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Afrika fili		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Африкански слонове		0
6	Catalan (ca) Elefant africà		0
7	German (de) Afrikanische Elefanten		0
8	Greek (el) Αφρικανικός ελέφαντας		0
9	Spanish (es) Loxodonta		0
10	Basque (eu) Loxodonta		0

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

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