Lion

Quality:

Lion - species of big cat. This taxon is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 2^nd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Lion” in English Wikipedia has 99.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 345 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 786^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1109^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 2^nd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 389^th most popular in all topics.

The 322^nd most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3442^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1547^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1261^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lion” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 56 authors in all languages (1261^st place).

Since the creation of article “Lion”, its content was written by 1873 registered users of English Wikipedia (1109^th place) and edited by 9178 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (322^nd place).

Lion is on the 2^nd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3758 times in English Wikipedia (6973^rd place) and cited 31388 times in all languages (5222^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67 in February 2007
• Global: #65 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #207 in March 2017
• Global: #102 in December 2014

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	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		100
2	German (de) Löwe		100
3	Turkish (tr) Aslan		100
4	Persian (fa) شیر (گربه‌سان)		100
5	Romanian (ro) Leu		100
6	Hindi (hi) सिंह (पशु)		100
7	Greek (el) Λιοντάρι		100
8	Malay (ms) Singa		100
9	Catalan (ca) Lleó		100
10	Italian (it) Panthera leo		99.8909

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lion		48 681 374
2	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		14 422 566
3	French (fr) Lion		9 452 172
4	German (de) Löwe		7 646 564
5	Russian (ru) Лев		5 689 103
6	Portuguese (pt) Leão		5 479 008
7	Arabic (ar) أسد		5 212 381
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		4 828 200
9	Italian (it) Panthera leo		4 192 410
10	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		3 284 069

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) Lion		130 211
2	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		29 089
3	French (fr) Lion		26 319
4	Russian (ru) Лев		19 940
5	Japanese (ja) ライオン		16 944
6	German (de) Löwe		16 211
7	Portuguese (pt) Leão		11 924
8	Chinese (zh) 狮		10 323
9	Italian (it) Panthera leo		10 230
10	Arabic (ar) أسد		8 462

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lion		1 873
2	French (fr) Lion		639
3	German (de) Löwe		459
4	Italian (it) Panthera leo		422
5	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		371
6	Hebrew (he) אריה		358
7	Russian (ru) Лев		335
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		328
9	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		254
10	Dutch (nl) Leeuw (dier)		233

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	Russian (ru) Лев		12
2	English (en) Lion		6
3	Bulgarian (bg) Лъв		5
4	Italian (it) Panthera leo		5
5	Simple English (simple) Lion		4
6	Catalan (ca) Lleó		3
7	Indonesian (id) Singa		3
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		3
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şir		2
10	Czech (cs) Lev		2

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

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