Basking shark

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Basking shark

Quality:

Basking shark - species of shark. This taxon is the 521st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 495th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Basking shark” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 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 495th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 521st most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Basking shark”, its content was written by 399 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1619 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basking shark is on the 495th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 521st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 564 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2631 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4927 in May 2009
  • Global: #4105 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #3508 in July 2009
  • Global: #5419 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Portuguese (pt)
Tubarão-peregrino
97.4351
2English (en)
Basking shark
85.7141
3Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
71.8668
4German (de)
Riesenhai
70.5107
5French (fr)
Requin pèlerin
69.5193
6Chinese (zh)
姥鲨
60.2365
7Russian (ru)
Гигантская акула
54.7123
8Slovenian (sl)
Morski pes orjak
54.2739
9Armenian (hy)
Հսկա շնաձուկ
53.8794
10Simple English (simple)
Basking shark
52.7933
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Basking shark" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Basking shark
7 204 966
2German (de)
Riesenhai
1 667 272
3French (fr)
Requin pèlerin
1 068 343
4Japanese (ja)
ウバザメ
947 198
5Spanish (es)
Cetorhinus maximus
942 241
6Russian (ru)
Гигантская акула
818 745
7Swedish (sv)
Brugd
677 786
8Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
654 657
9Norwegian (no)
Brugde
367 170
10Polish (pl)
Długoszpar
360 584
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Basking shark" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Basking shark
44 739
2German (de)
Riesenhai
9 634
3Spanish (es)
Cetorhinus maximus
9 617
4Russian (ru)
Гигантская акула
4 603
5Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
3 902
6French (fr)
Requin pèlerin
3 629
7Japanese (ja)
ウバザメ
3 462
8Swedish (sv)
Brugd
3 168
9Norwegian (no)
Brugde
2 896
10Portuguese (pt)
Tubarão-peregrino
2 095
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Basking shark" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Basking shark
399
2German (de)
Riesenhai
143
3French (fr)
Requin pèlerin
143
4Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
84
5Dutch (nl)
Reuzenhaai
73
6Norwegian (no)
Brugde
68
7Spanish (es)
Cetorhinus maximus
62
8Russian (ru)
Гигантская акула
60
9Swedish (sv)
Brugd
49
10Hebrew (he)
כריש ענק
43
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Basking shark" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
قرش متشمس
3
2Japanese (ja)
ウバザメ
3
3Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
2
4Catalan (ca)
Tauró pelegrí
1
5Slovenian (sl)
Morski pes orjak
1
6Belarusian (be)
Гіганцкая акула
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Гигантска акула
0
8Czech (cs)
Žralok veliký
0
9Danish (da)
Brugde
0
10German (de)
Riesenhai
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Basking shark" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Basking shark
564
2Portuguese (pt)
Tubarão-peregrino
407
3Persian (fa)
کوسه آسوده
224
4Chinese (zh)
姥鲨
162
5Italian (it)
Cetorhinus maximus
95
6French (fr)
Requin pèlerin
87
7Japanese (ja)
ウバザメ
74
8Catalan (ca)
Tauró pelegrí
73
9Dutch (nl)
Reuzenhaai
68
10Ukrainian (uk)
Акула велетенська
65
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قرش متشمس
beBelarusian
Гіганцкая акула
bgBulgarian
Гигантска акула
caCatalan
Tauró pelegrí
csCzech
Žralok veliký
daDanish
Brugde
deGerman
Riesenhai
elGreek
Καρχαρίας προσκυνητής
enEnglish
Basking shark
eoEsperanto
Cetorino
esSpanish
Cetorhinus maximus
etEstonian
Hiidhai
euBasque
Marrazo erraldoi
faPersian
کوسه آسوده
fiFinnish
Jättiläishai
frFrench
Requin pèlerin
glGalician
Peixe bobo
heHebrew
כריש ענק
hrCroatian
Golema psina
huHungarian
Óriáscápa
hyArmenian
Հսկա շնաձուկ
idIndonesian
Hiu raksasa
itItalian
Cetorhinus maximus
jaJapanese
ウバザメ
kkKazakh
Аса ірі акула
koKorean
돌묵상어
nlDutch
Reuzenhaai
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Brugde
noNorwegian
Brugde
plPolish
Długoszpar
ptPortuguese
Tubarão-peregrino
ruRussian
Гигантская акула
shSerbo-Croatian
Golema psina
simpleSimple English
Basking shark
skSlovak
Žralok obrovský (Cetorhinus maximus)
slSlovenian
Morski pes orjak
srSerbian
Голема ајкула
svSwedish
Brugd
taTamil
மேய்ச்சல் சுறா
thThai
ปลาฉลามอาบแดด
trTurkish
Büyük camgöz
ukUkrainian
Акула велетенська
urUrdu
باسکنگ شارک
viVietnamese
Cá nhám phơi nắng
zhChinese
姥鲨

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3508
07.2009
Global:
#5419
06.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4927
05.2009
Global:
#4105
02.2012

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Basking shark from Wikipedia articles about Whale shark, Megalodon, Megamouth shark, Great white shark and Shark. Whereas reading the article about Basking shark people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Whale shark, Megamouth shark, Lamniformes, Great white shark and Megalodon.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

sv: Brugd
no: Brugde
zh: 姥鲨
da: Brugde
nn: Brugde

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