Fossa (animal)

Quality:

Cryptoprocta ferox - cat-like, carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar. This taxon is the 928^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 753^rd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article "Fossa (animal)" in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 181 references and 14 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 753^rd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 928^th most popular in taxon.

In July 2024 the article "Fossa (animal)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Fossa (animal)", its content was written by 363 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1533 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Cryptoprocta ferox is on the 753^rd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 928^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 637 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3683 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2121 in April 2011
• Global: #1581 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7465 in April 2011
• Global: #7793 in August 2019

There are 43 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Fossa (animal)		100
2	Greek (el) Φόσα		89.1683
3	Hebrew (he) פוסה		84.1766
4	Vietnamese (vi) Fossa		78.3634
5	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		77.7611
6	Catalan (ca) Fossa (carnívor)		74.6907
7	Slovenian (sl) Fosa		64.7883
8	German (de) Fossa		62.1997
9	Malay (ms) Fosa		58.6529
10	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		56.4243

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fossa (animal)		4 933 432
2	German (de) Fossa		984 752
3	Russian (ru) Фосса		895 886
4	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		693 901
5	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		503 905
6	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		356 027
7	Polish (pl) Fossa madagaskarska		348 010
8	Japanese (ja) フォッサ		251 586
9	Portuguese (pt) Fossa (animal)		216 881
10	Czech (cs) Fosa		149 756

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) Fossa (animal)		23 810
2	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		6 014
3	Russian (ru) Фосса		5 112
4	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		4 853
5	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		4 516
6	German (de) Fossa		4 409
7	Portuguese (pt) Fossa (animal)		1 584
8	Polish (pl) Fossa madagaskarska		1 398
9	Czech (cs) Fosa		1 172
10	Japanese (ja) フォッサ		1 108

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fossa (animal)		363
2	German (de) Fossa		141
3	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		108
4	Greek (el) Φόσα		86
5	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		86
6	Dutch (nl) Fretkat		63
7	Russian (ru) Фосса		62
8	Hebrew (he) פוסה		58
9	Hungarian (hu) Fossza		47
10	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		42

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) Fossa (animal)		2
2	Greek (el) Φόσα		1
3	Arabic (ar) فوسا (حيوان)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Фоса		0
5	Catalan (ca) Fossa (carnívor)		0
6	Czech (cs) Fosa		0
7	Danish (da) Fossa		0
8	German (de) Fossa		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Foso		0
10	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		0

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

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