Housefly

Quality:

Musca domestica - species of insect in the class "Muscidae", sort of fly. This taxon is the 402^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 450^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Housefly” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 100 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 (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 450^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 402^nd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Housefly”, its content was written by 528 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1940 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Musca domestica is on the 450^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 402^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 279 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1944 in October 2009
• Global: #4272 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1565 in September 2018
• Global: #2844 in September 2018

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, 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	English (en) Housefly		91.3464
2	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		72.2882
3	Estonian (et) Harilik toakärbes		58.3726
4	Catalan (ca) Musca domestica		53.2307
5	Basque (eu) Etxe-euli		51.9641
6	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		50.8211
7	Chinese (zh) 家蠅		45.1137
8	Galician (gl) Mosca doméstica		41.7102
9	German (de) Stubenfliege		41.3239
10	Indonesian (id) Lalat rumah		40.2662

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Housefly		7 960 079
2	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		1 762 209
3	German (de) Stubenfliege		1 726 625
4	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		1 575 074
5	French (fr) Mouche domestique		967 251
6	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		954 563
7	Portuguese (pt) Musca domestica		789 677
8	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		696 770
9	Italian (it) Musca domestica		488 235
10	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		394 850

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) Housefly		20 703
2	German (de) Stubenfliege		7 716
3	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		4 048
4	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		3 064
5	French (fr) Mouche domestique		2 233
6	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		1 913
7	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		1 740
8	Turkish (tr) Karasinek		1 391
9	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		1 237
10	Italian (it) Musca domestica		899

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Housefly		528
2	German (de) Stubenfliege		207
3	French (fr) Mouche domestique		91
4	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		90
5	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		88
6	Hebrew (he) זבוב הבית		80
7	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		78
8	Italian (it) Musca domestica		75
9	Portuguese (pt) Musca domestica		68
10	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		66

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	Bulgarian (bg) Домашна муха		7
2	Catalan (ca) Musca domestica		2
3	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Otaq milçəyi		1
5	Basque (eu) Etxe-euli		1
6	Indonesian (id) Lalat rumah		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kućna muha		1
8	Arabic (ar) ذبابة منزلية		0
9	Belarusian (be) Муха пакаёвая		0
10	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		0

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

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