Blue whale

Quality:

Balaenoptera musculus - species of marine mammal, largest living animal in the world. This taxon is the 22^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 26^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Blue whale” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 291 references and 20 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 3117^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4855^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 26^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1642^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2135^th most popular in AI.

The 22^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7528^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3563^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6809^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Blue whale” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6809^th place).

Since the creation of article “Blue whale”, its content was written by 1152 registered users of English Wikipedia (4855^th place) and edited by 4978 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2135^th place).

Balaenoptera musculus is on the 26^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 22^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 819 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4850 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #66 in May 2005
• Global: #260 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #781 in May 2019
• Global: #818 in April 2017

There are 54 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	English (en) Blue whale		100
2	Russian (ru) Синий кит		100
3	Chinese (zh) 蓝鲸		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		100
5	Czech (cs) Plejtvák obrovský		100
6	Hungarian (hu) Kék bálna		96.6818
7	Catalan (ca) Rorqual blau		95.2776
8	Indonesian (id) Paus biru		93.439
9	French (fr) Baleine bleue		84.3484
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		83.7009

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue whale		27 203 335
2	German (de) Blauwal		6 026 593
3	Russian (ru) Синий кит		5 666 303
4	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		4 872 362
5	French (fr) Baleine bleue		3 835 851
6	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		2 982 293
7	Japanese (ja) シロナガスクジラ		2 679 876
8	Arabic (ar) حوت أزرق		2 484 810
9	Polish (pl) Płetwal błękitny		2 106 326
10	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		1 920 191

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) Blue whale		72 425
2	German (de) Blauwal		18 357
3	Russian (ru) Синий кит		12 674
4	Japanese (ja) シロナガスクジラ		9 168
5	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		8 993
6	French (fr) Baleine bleue		8 883
7	Chinese (zh) 蓝鲸		6 148
8	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		5 900
9	Polish (pl) Płetwal błękitny		4 686
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		4 353

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blue whale		1 152
2	French (fr) Baleine bleue		345
3	German (de) Blauwal		269
4	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		216
5	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		216
6	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		205
7	Russian (ru) Синий кит		197
8	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		170
9	Hebrew (he) לווייתן כחול		156
10	Swedish (sv) Blåval		136

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) Blue whale		6
2	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		4
3	German (de) Blauwal		2
4	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Göy balina		1
6	Catalan (ca) Rorqual blau		1
7	Czech (cs) Plejtvák obrovský		1
8	Persian (fa) نهنگ آبی		1
9	French (fr) Baleine bleue		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Kék bálna		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information