Hyena

Quality:

Hyaenidae - family of mammals in the order Carnivora. This taxon is the 112^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 113^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Hyena” in English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 124 references and 19 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:

en

The 7573^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 9317^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 113^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5670^th most popular in all topics.

The 6825^th most popular in AI.

The 112^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7371^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Hyena” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hyena”, its content was written by 853 registered users of English Wikipedia (9317^th place) and edited by 3050 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6825^th place).

Hyaenidae is on the 113^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 112^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2264 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10260 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2584 in October 2001
• Global: #1399 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3545 in April 2019
• Global: #2293 in December 2018

There are 54 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) Hyena		94.8612
2	Swedish (sv) Hyenor		94.2904
3	German (de) Hyänen		92.4498
4	Italian (it) Hyaenidae		71.1818
5	Indonesian (id) Hiena		70.3387
6	Galician (gl) Hiénidos		70.0216
7	Catalan (ca) Hienes		66.4039
8	Spanish (es) Hyaenidae		59.5525
9	Basque (eu) Hiena		53.9638
10	Norwegian (no) Hyenefamilien		53.8468

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hyena		16 293 390
2	German (de) Hyänen		2 810 213
3	Spanish (es) Hyaenidae		2 764 442
4	Russian (ru) Гиены		2 357 959
5	Japanese (ja) ハイエナ		1 996 817
6	French (fr) Hyaenidae		1 856 395
7	Arabic (ar) ضبع		1 397 337
8	Italian (it) Hyaenidae		1 118 006
9	Portuguese (pt) Hiena		1 040 643
10	Persian (fa) کفتار		714 725

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) Hyena		63 962
2	Russian (ru) Гиены		9 477
3	German (de) Hyänen		9 275
4	Spanish (es) Hyaenidae		8 200
5	Japanese (ja) ハイエナ		8 058
6	French (fr) Hyaenidae		6 095
7	Chinese (zh) 鬣狗科		4 063
8	Italian (it) Hyaenidae		3 504
9	Portuguese (pt) Hiena		3 073
10	Arabic (ar) ضبع		3 000

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hyena		853
2	German (de) Hyänen		211
3	French (fr) Hyaenidae		203
4	Dutch (nl) Hyena's		145
5	Italian (it) Hyaenidae		130
6	Hebrew (he) צבועיים		94
7	Russian (ru) Гиены		91
8	Spanish (es) Hyaenidae		87
9	Persian (fa) کفتار		84
10	Arabic (ar) ضبع		67

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) Hyena		9
2	German (de) Hyänen		2
3	Arabic (ar) ضبع		1
4	Greek (el) Ύαινα		1
5	French (fr) Hyaenidae		1
6	Polish (pl) Hienowate		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kaftarlar		0
8	Belarusian (be) Гіенавыя		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Хиенови		0
10	Catalan (ca) Hienes		0

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

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