Elk

Quality:

Cervus canadensis - species of mammal in the deer family (Cervidae). This taxon is the 542^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 266^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Elk” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 177 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 266^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 542^nd most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Elk” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Elk”, its content was written by 622 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1698 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Cervus canadensis is on the 266^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 542^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1998 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6020 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #284 in December 2010
• Global: #1298 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4109 in December 2010
• Global: #8436 in December 2010

There are 48 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	Catalan (ca) Uapití		99.1781
2	English (en) Elk		96.3961
3	Hungarian (hu) Vapiti		94.2874
4	Italian (it) Cervus canadensis		92.5661
5	Chinese (zh) 加拿大馬鹿		83.8874
6	Spanish (es) Cervus canadensis		77.8636
7	Romanian (ro) Wapiti		67.1522
8	French (fr) Wapiti		65.097
9	German (de) Wapiti		46.081
10	Swedish (sv) Vapiti		43.9612

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elk		10 880 165
2	French (fr) Wapiti		1 232 303
3	German (de) Wapiti		973 902
4	Spanish (es) Cervus canadensis		702 280
5	Japanese (ja) ワピチ		327 746
6	Italian (it) Cervus canadensis		305 339
7	Russian (ru) Вапити		300 249
8	Polish (pl) Jeleń kanadyjski		281 307
9	Chinese (zh) 加拿大馬鹿		222 521
10	Dutch (nl) Wapiti		209 568

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) Elk		43 556
2	French (fr) Wapiti		5 965
3	German (de) Wapiti		5 280
4	Spanish (es) Cervus canadensis		2 711
5	Russian (ru) Вапити		2 596
6	Japanese (ja) ワピチ		2 048
7	Chinese (zh) 加拿大馬鹿		1 857
8	Italian (it) Cervus canadensis		1 457
9	Dutch (nl) Wapiti		1 047
10	Polish (pl) Jeleń kanadyjski		915

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elk		622
2	French (fr) Wapiti		149
3	German (de) Wapiti		144
4	Italian (it) Cervus canadensis		84
5	Spanish (es) Cervus canadensis		56
6	Dutch (nl) Wapiti		54
7	Hungarian (hu) Vapiti		49
8	Hebrew (he) אייל קנדי		44
9	Russian (ru) Вапити		42
10	Norwegian (no) Wapiti		36

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) Elk		2
2	Spanish (es) Cervus canadensis		2
3	Dutch (nl) Wapiti		2
4	Russian (ru) Вапити		2
5	Italian (it) Cervus canadensis		1
6	Arabic (ar) إلكة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kanada maralı		0
8	Belarusian (be) Вапіці		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Уапити		0
10	Catalan (ca) Uapití		0

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

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