African wild dog

Quality:

African wild dog - species of canid native to Sub-Saharan Africa. This taxon is the 516^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 346^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “African wild dog” in English Wikipedia has 96.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 145 references and 29 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:

The 346^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 516^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “African wild dog” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “African wild dog”, its content was written by 723 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2223 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

African wild dog is on the 346^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 516^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1113 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6885 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1588 in May 2023
• Global: #3895 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1822 in April 2018
• Global: #3903 in November 2012

There are 45 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 wild dog		96.6419
2	Indonesian (id) Iganyana		95.0434
3	Portuguese (pt) Mabeco		88.9434
4	Italian (it) Lycaon pictus		85.4522
5	Spanish (es) Lycaon pictus		77.2354
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Afrikansk villhund		75.4669
7	Slovenian (sl) Afriški hijenski pes		72.634
8	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse wilde hond		69.7071
9	German (de) Afrikanischer Wildhund		52.2298
10	Malay (ms) Anjing liar Afrika		51.0345

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) African wild dog		9 201 964
2	French (fr) Lycaon (animal)		1 230 885
3	Spanish (es) Lycaon pictus		1 149 956
4	Japanese (ja) リカオン		838 714
5	German (de) Afrikanischer Wildhund		809 222
6	Italian (it) Lycaon pictus		697 663
7	Russian (ru) Гиеновидная собака		470 136
8	Polish (pl) Likaon pstry		466 536
9	Portuguese (pt) Mabeco		357 582
10	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse wilde hond		267 320

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 wild dog		32 511
2	Spanish (es) Lycaon pictus		5 098
3	French (fr) Lycaon (animal)		4 984
4	Japanese (ja) リカオン		3 761
5	German (de) Afrikanischer Wildhund		3 591
6	Italian (it) Lycaon pictus		2 573
7	Russian (ru) Гиеновидная собака		2 458
8	Chinese (zh) 非洲野犬		1 721
9	Polish (pl) Likaon pstry		1 642
10	Portuguese (pt) Mabeco		1 536

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) African wild dog		723
2	French (fr) Lycaon (animal)		168
3	German (de) Afrikanischer Wildhund		150
4	Italian (it) Lycaon pictus		115
5	Dutch (nl) Afrikaanse wilde hond		105
6	Norwegian (no) Afrikansk villhund		98
7	Spanish (es) Lycaon pictus		75
8	Russian (ru) Гиеновидная собака		62
9	Hebrew (he) זאב טלוא		59
10	Polish (pl) Likaon pstry		57

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 wild dog		4
2	Spanish (es) Lycaon pictus		3
3	Indonesian (id) Iganyana		3
4	Catalan (ca) Gos salvatge africà		1
5	Greek (el) Λυκάων (ζωολογία)		1
6	Galician (gl) Licaón		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Mabeco		1
8	Chinese (zh) 非洲野犬		1
9	Arabic (ar) سمع (حيوان)		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Afrika çöl iti		0

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

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