Cetacea

Quality:

Cetacea - order of marine mammals. This taxon is the 160^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 427^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Cetacea” in English Wikipedia has 72.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 159 references and 44 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.16 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 427^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7484^th most popular in all topics.

The 3673^rd most popular in AI.

The 160^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Cetacea” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cetacea”, its content was written by 658 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4084 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3673^rd place).

Cetacea is on the 427^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 160^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2197 times in English Wikipedia and cited 19799 times in all languages (8391^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1907 in September 2003
• Global: #407 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8324 in July 2013
• Global: #4832 in January 2008

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	Czech (cs) Kytovci		96.5548
2	Catalan (ca) Cetacis		96.3273
3	Spanish (es) Cetacea		93.4639
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kvalar		92.4697
5	French (fr) Cetacea		92.3436
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		87.5547
7	Hebrew (he) לווייתנאים		86.3119
8	Esperanto (eo) Cetacoj		86.2292
9	German (de) Wale		85.0206
10	Arabic (ar) حوتيات		73.0657

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cetacea		8 013 300
2	German (de) Wale		5 874 892
3	Spanish (es) Cetacea		2 690 464
4	Russian (ru) Китообразные		1 735 084
5	French (fr) Cetacea		1 319 919
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		1 303 207
7	Polish (pl) Walenie		1 267 306
8	Portuguese (pt) Cetáceos		917 904
9	Swedish (sv) Valar		767 893
10	Hebrew (he) לווייתנאים		703 327

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) Cetacea		41 087
2	German (de) Wale		8 794
3	Russian (ru) Китообразные		7 097
4	Spanish (es) Cetacea		6 406
5	French (fr) Cetacea		5 483
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		3 879
7	Portuguese (pt) Cetáceos		2 996
8	Korean (ko) 고래		2 727
9	Chinese (zh) 鯨豚類		2 567
10	Polish (pl) Walenie		2 509

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cetacea		658
2	German (de) Wale		415
3	French (fr) Cetacea		227
4	Dutch (nl) Walvisachtigen		206
5	Hebrew (he) לווייתנאים		184
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		177
7	Spanish (es) Cetacea		167
8	Russian (ru) Китообразные		131
9	Norwegian (no) Hvaler		125
10	Swedish (sv) Valar		111

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) Cetacea		8
2	Norwegian (no) Hvaler		2
3	Catalan (ca) Cetacis		1
4	German (de) Wale		1
5	Malay (ms) Setasea		1
6	Polish (pl) Walenie		1
7	Russian (ru) Китообразные		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Китоподібні		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phân thứ bộ Cá voi		1
10	Arabic (ar) حوتيات		0

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

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