Hedgehog

Quality:

Hedgehog - subfamily of small spiny mammals. This taxon is the 189^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 96^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Hedgehog” in English Wikipedia has 77.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 59 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6936^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8618^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 96^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8568^th most popular in all topics.

The 189^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Hedgehog” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hedgehog”, its content was written by 907 registered users of English Wikipedia (8618^th place) and edited by 1910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hedgehog is on the 96^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 189^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1424 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4394 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1698 in December 2016
• Global: #3776 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2581 in January 2013
• Global: #5275 in January 2013

There are 42 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	Chinese (zh) 刺猬		86.1232
2	English (en) Hedgehog		77.4192
3	Latin (la) Erinaceinae		53.4377
4	Galician (gl) Erinaceinae		52.3397
5	Belarusian (be) Сапраўдныя вожыкі		50.8451
6	Italian (it) Erinaceinae		46.0044
7	Tamil (ta) முள்ளெலி		43.448
8	German (de) Stacheligel		39.0803
9	Hindi (hi) कांटेदार जंगली चूहा		36.9466
10	Basque (eu) Triku		36.47

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hedgehog		18 005 768
2	Spanish (es) Erinaceinae		3 208 397
3	Japanese (ja) ハリネズミ		1 622 820
4	Arabic (ar) قنفذ		1 053 281
5	Chinese (zh) 刺猬		969 106
6	Persian (fa) خارپشت		880 888
7	Turkish (tr) Kirpi		701 982
8	Romanian (ro) Arici		623 967
9	Greek (el) Σκαντζόχοιρος		604 420
10	Italian (it) Erinaceinae		539 290

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) Hedgehog		42 190
2	Spanish (es) Erinaceinae		5 694
3	Japanese (ja) ハリネズミ		4 580
4	Persian (fa) خارپشت		3 688
5	Chinese (zh) 刺猬		3 327
6	Russian (ru) Настоящие ежи		2 962
7	Romanian (ro) Arici		2 452
8	Turkish (tr) Kirpi		2 280
9	Greek (el) Σκαντζόχοιρος		2 035
10	Czech (cs) Ježek		1 810

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hedgehog		907
2	Spanish (es) Erinaceinae		142
3	German (de) Stacheligel		74
4	Italian (it) Erinaceinae		64
5	Japanese (ja) ハリネズミ		63
6	Persian (fa) خارپشت		59
7	Arabic (ar) قنفذ		54
8	Czech (cs) Ježek		53
9	Chinese (zh) 刺猬		43
10	French (fr) Erinaceinae		39

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) Hedgehog		3
2	Czech (cs) Ježek		2
3	Spanish (es) Erinaceinae		2
4	Persian (fa) خارپشت		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Erinaceíneos		2
6	Turkish (tr) Kirpi		2
7	Arabic (ar) قنفذ		1
8	Belarusian (be) Сапраўдныя вожыкі		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Tüskés sünök		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Ežiai		1

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

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