Giant squid

Quality:

Giant squid - species of decapod cephalopods. This taxon is the 283^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 159^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Giant squid” in English Wikipedia has 82.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 116 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.21 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6993^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 159^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 283^rd most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Giant squid” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Giant squid”, its content was written by 968 registered users of English Wikipedia (6993^rd place) and edited by 1852 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Giant squid is on the 159^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 283^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 298 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1010 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #130 in September 2005
• Global: #376 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1361 in January 2013
• Global: #864 in January 2013

There are 17 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) Giant squid		82.8759
2	Chinese (zh) 大王鱿		75.1344
3	Japanese (ja) ダイオウイカ		50.4867
4	German (de) Riesenkalmar		50.049
5	Italian (it) Architeuthis dux		48.5896
6	French (fr) Calmar géant		45.0879
7	Hungarian (hu) Óriáskalmár		44.1318
8	Polish (pl) Kałamarnica olbrzymia		33.0162
9	Indonesian (id) Cumi-cumi raksasa		32.2449
10	Catalan (ca) Architeuthis dux		30.2312

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Giant squid		13 683 956
2	Japanese (ja) ダイオウイカ		2 982 389
3	German (de) Riesenkalmar		2 861 094
4	French (fr) Calmar géant		1 623 667
5	Italian (it) Architeuthis dux		1 277 572
6	Polish (pl) Kałamarnica olbrzymia		847 019
7	Chinese (zh) 大王鱿		728 055
8	Hungarian (hu) Óriáskalmár		129 382
9	Korean (ko) 대왕오징어		103 628
10	Spanish (es) Architeuthis dux		91 339

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) Giant squid		36 091
2	German (de) Riesenkalmar		7 971
3	Japanese (ja) ダイオウイカ		6 471
4	French (fr) Calmar géant		5 041
5	Italian (it) Architeuthis dux		3 821
6	Chinese (zh) 大王鱿		3 648
7	Polish (pl) Kałamarnica olbrzymia		2 207
8	Spanish (es) Architeuthis dux		558
9	Hungarian (hu) Óriáskalmár		490
10	Korean (ko) 대왕오징어		359

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Giant squid		968
2	German (de) Riesenkalmar		250
3	French (fr) Calmar géant		169
4	Italian (it) Architeuthis dux		119
5	Japanese (ja) ダイオウイカ		111
6	Chinese (zh) 大王鱿		69
7	Polish (pl) Kałamarnica olbrzymia		51
8	Dutch (nl) Atlantische reuzeninktvis		36
9	Hungarian (hu) Óriáskalmár		31
10	Korean (ko) 대왕오징어		21

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) Giant squid		5
2	Chinese (zh) 大王鱿		2
3	German (de) Riesenkalmar		1
4	Italian (it) Architeuthis dux		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Гигантски калмар		0
6	Catalan (ca) Architeuthis dux		0
7	Spanish (es) Architeuthis dux		0
8	Estonian (et) Architeuthis dux		0
9	French (fr) Calmar géant		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Óriáskalmár		0

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

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