Basking shark

Quality:

Basking shark - species of shark. This taxon is the 509^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 481^st most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Basking shark” in English Wikipedia has 86.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 83 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 481^st most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 509^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Basking shark” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basking shark”, its content was written by 407 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1643 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basking shark is on the 481^st place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 509^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 555 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2413 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4938 in May 2009
• Global: #4103 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3550 in July 2009
• Global: #5433 in June 2015

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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-peregrino		97.2637
2	English (en) Basking shark		86.4571
3	Italian (it) Cetorhinus maximus		71.5946
4	French (fr) Requin pèlerin		70.2162
5	German (de) Riesenhai		69.335
6	Chinese (zh) 姥鲨		60.1786
7	Russian (ru) Гигантская акула		54.8197
8	Slovenian (sl) Morski pes orjak		54.1122
9	Armenian (hy) Հսկա շնաձուկ		53.8382
10	Simple English (simple) Basking shark		47.9028

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basking shark		7 585 284
2	German (de) Riesenhai		1 762 133
3	French (fr) Requin pèlerin		1 123 346
4	Japanese (ja) ウバザメ		994 793
5	Spanish (es) Cetorhinus maximus		971 318
6	Russian (ru) Гигантская акула		889 097
7	Swedish (sv) Brugd		717 502
8	Italian (it) Cetorhinus maximus		693 529
9	Norwegian (no) Brugde		380 299
10	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-peregrino		380 192

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) Basking shark		36 435
2	German (de) Riesenhai		7 298
3	French (fr) Requin pèlerin		4 814
4	Italian (it) Cetorhinus maximus		4 244
5	Russian (ru) Гигантская акула		3 755
6	Japanese (ja) ウバザメ		3 653
7	Swedish (sv) Brugd		3 042
8	Spanish (es) Cetorhinus maximus		3 025
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-peregrino		1 970
10	Turkish (tr) Büyük camgöz		1 779

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basking shark		407
2	French (fr) Requin pèlerin		148
3	German (de) Riesenhai		145
4	Italian (it) Cetorhinus maximus		92
5	Dutch (nl) Reuzenhaai		74
6	Spanish (es) Cetorhinus maximus		67
7	Russian (ru) Гигантская акула		60
8	Swedish (sv) Brugd		51
9	Norwegian (no) Brugde		46
10	Hebrew (he) כריש ענק		43

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) Basking shark		2
2	Spanish (es) Cetorhinus maximus		2
3	French (fr) Requin pèlerin		2
4	Dutch (nl) Reuzenhaai		2
5	Polish (pl) Długoszpar		2
6	Bulgarian (bg) Гигантска акула		1
7	Czech (cs) Žralok veliký		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Óriáscápa		1
9	Italian (it) Cetorhinus maximus		1
10	Norwegian (no) Brugde		1

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

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