Cetacean

Quality:

Cetacea - infraorder of marine mammals. This taxon is the 161^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 406^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Cetacean” in English Wikipedia has 73.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 173 references and 45 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.27 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 406^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7510^th most popular in all topics.

The 3729^th most popular in AI.

The 161^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9872^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5248^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Cetacean” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9872^nd place) and written by 28 authors in all languages (5248^th place).

Since the creation of article “Cetacean”, its content was written by 685 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3729^th place).

Cetacea is on the 406^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 161^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2568 times in English Wikipedia and cited 20093 times in all languages (8578^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1908 in September 2003
• Global: #407 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8372 in July 2013
• Global: #4871 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, 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	Czech (cs) Kytovci		96.5409
2	Catalan (ca) Cetacis		96.4701
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kvalar		92.4697
4	Spanish (es) Cetacea		92.4165
5	French (fr) Cetacea		92.0893
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		86.8715
7	Esperanto (eo) Cetacoj		85.2803
8	German (de) Wale		84.9642
9	Hebrew (he) לווייתנאים		84.5365
10	English (en) Cetacean		73.0832

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cetacean		8 548 550
2	German (de) Wale		6 090 897
3	Spanish (es) Cetacea		2 785 622
4	Russian (ru) Китообразные		1 913 078
5	French (fr) Cetacea		1 391 532
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		1 363 184
7	Polish (pl) Walenie		1 306 821
8	Portuguese (pt) Cetáceos		955 287
9	Swedish (sv) Valar		787 900
10	Japanese (ja) 鯨類		727 471

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) Cetacean		41 361
2	German (de) Wale		13 686
3	Russian (ru) Китообразные		7 462
4	Spanish (es) Cetacea		4 834
5	French (fr) Cetacea		4 283
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		3 359
7	Polish (pl) Walenie		2 754
8	Japanese (ja) 鯨類		2 542
9	Chinese (zh) 鯨豚類		2 108
10	Czech (cs) Kytovci		1 978

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cetacean		685
2	German (de) Wale		423
3	French (fr) Cetacea		232
4	Dutch (nl) Walvisachtigen		206
5	Hebrew (he) לווייתנאים		187
6	Italian (it) Cetacea		186
7	Spanish (es) Cetacea		168
8	Russian (ru) Китообразные		133
9	Swedish (sv) Valar		112
10	Norwegian (no) Hvaler		103

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) Cetacean		8
2	Italian (it) Cetacea		5
3	Arabic (ar) حوتيات		4
4	Czech (cs) Kytovci		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Cetacea		1
6	Catalan (ca) Cetacis		1
7	German (de) Wale		1
8	Basque (eu) Zetazeo		1
9	Japanese (ja) 鯨類		1
10	Dutch (nl) Walvisachtigen		1

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

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