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 25^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Blue whale” in English Wikipedia has 99.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 244 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3014^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4801^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 25^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1648^th most popular in all topics.

The 2150^th most popular in AI.

The 22^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8693^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3866^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9047^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Blue whale”, its content was written by 1127 registered users of English Wikipedia (4801^st place) and edited by 4913 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2150^th place).

Balaenoptera musculus is on the 25^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 814 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4825 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #66 in May 2005
• Global: #261 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #779 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, 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	Russian (ru) Синий кит		100
2	Chinese (zh) 蓝鲸		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		100
4	Czech (cs) Plejtvák obrovský		100
5	English (en) Blue whale		99.431
6	Indonesian (id) Paus biru		98.6368
7	Hungarian (hu) Kék bálna		96.6424
8	Catalan (ca) Rorqual blau		95.2216
9	French (fr) Baleine bleue		84.1192
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		82.926

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue whale		26 262 051
2	German (de) Blauwal		5 711 728
3	Russian (ru) Синий кит		4 968 480
4	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		4 744 602
5	French (fr) Baleine bleue		3 705 788
6	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		2 930 454
7	Japanese (ja) シロナガスクジラ		2 566 223
8	Arabic (ar) حوت أزرق		2 431 059
9	Polish (pl) Płetwal błękitny		2 032 525
10	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		1 842 111

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		73 879
2	Russian (ru) Синий кит		14 418
3	German (de) Blauwal		13 556
4	French (fr) Baleine bleue		9 963
5	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		9 765
6	Japanese (ja) シロナガスクジラ		9 176
7	Chinese (zh) 蓝鲸		8 131
8	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		6 030
9	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		5 979
10	Polish (pl) Płetwal błękitny		5 570

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		1 127
2	French (fr) Baleine bleue		337
3	German (de) Blauwal		258
4	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		211
5	Italian (it) Balaenoptera musculus		209
6	Spanish (es) Balaenoptera musculus		200
7	Russian (ru) Синий кит		194
8	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		166
9	Hebrew (he) לווייתן כחול		153
10	Norwegian (no) Blåhval		143

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	Dutch (nl) Blauwe vinvis		8
2	Polish (pl) Płetwal błękitny		3
3	French (fr) Baleine bleue		2
4	Czech (cs) Plejtvák obrovský		1
5	Finnish (fi) Sinivalas		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Kék bálna		1
7	Armenian (hy) Կապույտ կետ		1
8	Korean (ko) 대왕고래		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-azul		1
10	Russian (ru) Синий кит		1

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

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