Capybara

Quality:

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris - species of giant rodent in the cavy family. This taxon is the 65^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 56^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Capybara” in English Wikipedia has 90.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 15 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:

en

The 4674^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7945^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 56^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3575^th most popular in all topics.

The 5061^st most popular in AI.

The 65^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1334^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 741^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2339^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Capybara” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 42 authors in all languages (2339^th place).

Since the creation of article “Capybara”, its content was written by 916 registered users of English Wikipedia (7945^th place) and edited by 3522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5061^st place).

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris is on the 56^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 65^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 709 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3760 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #498 in November 2024
• Global: #193 in March 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #841 in March 2023
• Global: #358 in March 2023

There are 51 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	Portuguese (pt) Capivara		95.2204
2	English (en) Capybara		90.5141
3	Chinese (zh) 水豚		85.3841
4	Polish (pl) Kapibara wielka		84.3925
5	Spanish (es) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		82.1783
6	Basque (eu) Kapibara		81.4566
7	Catalan (ca) Capibara		79.0113
8	Estonian (et) Kapibaara		74.9897
9	Romanian (ro) Capibara		72.8127
10	Croatian (hr) Kapibara		72.2609

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capybara		21 066 798
2	Spanish (es) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		5 682 924
3	Russian (ru) Капибара		4 038 645
4	Japanese (ja) カピバラ		3 361 288
5	German (de) Capybara		2 812 168
6	Portuguese (pt) Capivara		2 332 919
7	Chinese (zh) 水豚		1 395 792
8	French (fr) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		1 070 202
9	Italian (it) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		1 022 046
10	Dutch (nl) Capibara		667 647

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) Capybara		222 716
2	Spanish (es) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		82 450
3	Russian (ru) Капибара		29 996
4	German (de) Capybara		29 180
5	French (fr) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		20 961
6	Portuguese (pt) Capivara		18 410
7	Chinese (zh) 水豚		17 595
8	Japanese (ja) カピバラ		10 872
9	Italian (it) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		9 505
10	Turkish (tr) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		6 964

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capybara		916
2	Spanish (es) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		295
3	German (de) Capybara		196
4	French (fr) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		183
5	Portuguese (pt) Capivara		179
6	Italian (it) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		166
7	Russian (ru) Капибара		150
8	Dutch (nl) Capibara		117
9	Japanese (ja) カピバラ		110
10	Hebrew (he) קפיבארה מצויה		81

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	Spanish (es) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		13
2	German (de) Capybara		4
3	Russian (ru) Капибара		4
4	French (fr) Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris		3
5	Simple English (simple) Capybara		3
6	Chinese (zh) 水豚		3
7	Catalan (ca) Capibara		2
8	English (en) Capybara		2
9	Estonian (et) Kapibaara		2
10	Swedish (sv) Kapybara		2

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

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