Chicken

Quality:

Chicken - domesticated bird (specifically a red junglefowl) kept by humans primarily as a food source. This taxon is the 20^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 10^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Chicken” in English Wikipedia has 95.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 136 references and 22 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 1955^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 168^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 10^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1601^st most popular in all topics.

The 335^th most popular in AI.

The 20^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5159^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4296^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2223^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Chicken” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 43 authors in all languages (2223^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Chicken”, its content was written by 3080 registered users of English Wikipedia (168^th place) and edited by 9205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (335^th place).

Chicken is on the 10^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3805 times in English Wikipedia (7362^nd place) and cited 22508 times in all languages (7601^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #129 in August 2010
• Global: #89 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1031 in March 2009
• Global: #66 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, 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	German (de) Haushuhn		100
2	Malay (ms) Ayam		100
3	English (en) Chicken		95.3194
4	Esperanto (eo) Koko		93.3333
5	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		89.2162
6	Russian (ru) Курица		86.6876
7	Indonesian (id) Ayam		83.7542
8	Arabic (ar) دجاج		82.8611
9	Latin (la) Gallus		82.3098
10	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		77.7628

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chicken		33 841 725
2	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		5 715 408
3	German (de) Haushuhn		5 552 411
4	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		3 219 421
5	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		2 785 172
6	Russian (ru) Курица		2 772 761
7	Polish (pl) Kura domowa		1 940 002
8	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		1 900 706
9	Indonesian (id) Ayam		1 885 406
10	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		1 600 574

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		92 732
2	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		9 786
3	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		9 056
4	German (de) Haushuhn		7 787
5	Russian (ru) Курица		7 054
6	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		4 801
7	Chinese (zh) 鸡		3 879
8	French (fr) Gallus gallus domesticus		3 273
9	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		3 250
10	Indonesian (id) Ayam		3 017

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chicken		3 080
2	German (de) Haushuhn		556
3	Spanish (es) Gallus gallus domesticus		492
4	French (fr) Gallus gallus domesticus		371
5	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		338
6	Dutch (nl) Kip (vogel)		301
7	Russian (ru) Курица		245
8	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		227
9	Chinese (zh) 鸡		225
10	Portuguese (pt) Galinha		220

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		5
2	Catalan (ca) Gall		4
3	Indonesian (id) Ayam		4
4	Japanese (ja) ニワトリ		4
5	German (de) Haushuhn		3
6	Italian (it) Gallus gallus domesticus		3
7	Simple English (simple) Chicken		3
8	Arabic (ar) دجاج		2
9	Slovak (sk) Kura domáca		2
10	Thai (th) ไก่		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information