Chicken

Quality:

Chicken - domesticated bird kept by humans primarily as a food source. This taxon is the 21^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 9^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Chicken” in English Wikipedia has 96.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 135 references and 21 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1882^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 163^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 9^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1647^th most popular in all topics.

The 326^th most popular in AI.

The 21^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6394^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4249^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1699^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Chicken” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 49 authors in all languages (1699^th place).

Since the creation of article “Chicken”, its content was written by 3036 registered users of English Wikipedia (163^rd place) and edited by 9114 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (326^th place).

Chicken is on the 9^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 21^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3723 times in English Wikipedia (7093^rd place) and cited 21952 times in all languages (7550^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #130 in August 2010
• Global: #89 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1030 in March 2009
• Global: #68 in April 2015

There are 55 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	German (de) Haushuhn		100
2	Malay (ms) Ayam		100
3	English (en) Chicken		96.083
4	Esperanto (eo) Koko		93.3333
5	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		84.8556
6	Indonesian (id) Ayam		83.4285
7	Latin (la) Gallus		81.5315
8	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		78.1239
9	Catalan (ca) Gall		76.6533
10	Russian (ru) Курица		75.9226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chicken		32 707 811
2	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		5 574 570
3	German (de) Haushuhn		5 438 825
4	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		3 132 451
5	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		2 707 964
6	Russian (ru) Курица		2 499 480
7	Polish (pl) Kura domowa		1 899 532
8	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		1 573 251
9	French (fr) Gallus gallus domesticus		1 425 473
10	Arabic (ar) دجاج		1 376 174

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) Chicken		89 313
2	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		13 181
3	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		11 549
4	Russian (ru) Курица		8 683
5	German (de) Haushuhn		7 939
6	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		5 893
7	Chinese (zh) 鸡		5 558
8	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		4 674
9	Simple English (simple) Chicken		4 563
10	French (fr) Gallus gallus domesticus		3 689

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chicken		3 036
2	German (de) Haushuhn		549
3	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		489
4	French (fr) Gallus gallus domesticus		362
5	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		324
6	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		300
7	Russian (ru) Курица		234
8	Chinese (zh) 鸡		223
9	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		218
10	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		216

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) Chicken		6
2	Simple English (simple) Chicken		5
3	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		4
4	Vietnamese (vi) Gà		4
5	Finnish (fi) Kana		3
6	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		3
7	Romanian (ro) Găină		3
8	Czech (cs) Kur domácí		2
9	German (de) Haushuhn		2
10	Indonesian (id) Ayam		2

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

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