Exploding whale

Quality:

Exploding whale - phenomenon of a beached whale exploding due to explosives or decomposition. Article "Exploding whale" in English Wikipedia has 49.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Exploding whale", its content was written by 537 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 78 times in English Wikipedia and cited 160 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #59 in November 2004
• Global: #95 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4688 in December 2015
• Global: #5046 in September 2015

There are 20 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	English (en) Exploding whale		49.8681
2	German (de) Walexplosion		41.3002
3	Dutch (nl) Exploderende walvis		39.99
4	Vietnamese (vi) Cá voi phát nổ		34.1996
5	Italian (it) Esplosione della carcassa di un cetaceo		33.6036
6	Chinese (zh) 鯨魚爆炸		33.4727
7	Spanish (es) Explosión de ballenas		26.341
8	Finnish (fi) Räjähtävä valas		22.4951
9	Danish (da) Sprængt hval		20.4471
10	Swedish (sv) Exploderande val		18.99

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Exploding whale		2 673 468
2	Japanese (ja) 鯨の爆発		1 084 554
3	German (de) Walexplosion		386 900
4	Chinese (zh) 鯨魚爆炸		363 332
5	Russian (ru) Взрыв кита		281 640
6	Spanish (es) Explosión de ballenas		163 016
7	French (fr) Explosion de baleine		85 960
8	Italian (it) Esplosione della carcassa di un cetaceo		72 173
9	Finnish (fi) Räjähtävä valas		48 489
10	Korean (ko) 고래 폭발		38 042

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) Exploding whale		8 988
2	Japanese (ja) 鯨の爆発		1 266
3	Chinese (zh) 鯨魚爆炸		1 227
4	German (de) Walexplosion		517
5	Russian (ru) Взрыв кита		480
6	French (fr) Explosion de baleine		400
7	Korean (ko) 고래 폭발		244
8	Spanish (es) Explosión de ballenas		240
9	Italian (it) Esplosione della carcassa di un cetaceo		191
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cá voi phát nổ		118

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Exploding whale		537
2	German (de) Walexplosion		192
3	Japanese (ja) 鯨の爆発		62
4	Chinese (zh) 鯨魚爆炸		59
5	Spanish (es) Explosión de ballenas		38
6	Danish (da) Sprængt hval		35
7	French (fr) Explosion de baleine		34
8	Hebrew (he) פיצוץ לווייתן		34
9	Italian (it) Esplosione della carcassa di un cetaceo		30
10	Russian (ru) Взрыв кита		30

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	French (fr) Explosion de baleine		1
2	Portuguese (pt) Explosão de baleias		1
3	Danish (da) Sprængt hval		0
4	German (de) Walexplosion		0
5	English (en) Exploding whale		0
6	Spanish (es) Explosión de ballenas		0
7	Finnish (fi) Räjähtävä valas		0
8	Hebrew (he) פיצוץ לווייתן		0
9	Italian (it) Esplosione della carcassa di un cetaceo		0
10	Japanese (ja) 鯨の爆発		0

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

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