Monarch butterfly

Quality:

Danaus plexippus - milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. This taxon is the 459^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 334^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Monarch butterfly” in English Wikipedia has 86.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 448 references and 36 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.57 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8622^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 334^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 459^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Monarch butterfly” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Monarch butterfly”, its content was written by 907 registered users of English Wikipedia (8622^nd place) and edited by 2353 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Danaus plexippus is on the 334^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 459^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 620 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1846 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #795 in September 2014
• Global: #1932 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7644 in July 2022
• Global: #8797 in July 2022

There are 43 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	Simple English (simple) Monarch butterfly		97.463
2	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		96.8606
3	German (de) Monarchfalter		96.3239
4	English (en) Monarch butterfly		86.7391
5	Serbian (sr) Монарх (лептир)		83.1472
6	Chinese (zh) 君主斑蝶		80.6335
7	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		69.35
8	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		62.138
9	Swedish (sv) Monark (fjäril)		59.1718
10	Galician (gl) Bolboreta monarca		58.9017

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monarch butterfly		9 796 019
2	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		3 963 451
3	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		1 092 196
4	German (de) Monarchfalter		800 593
5	Portuguese (pt) Borboleta-monarca		619 541
6	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		367 024
7	Japanese (ja) オオカバマダラ		327 301
8	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		272 384
9	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		269 864
10	Indonesian (id) Kupu-kupu raja		193 411

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) Monarch butterfly		33 337
2	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		8 381
3	German (de) Monarchfalter		4 469
4	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		4 375
5	Japanese (ja) オオカバマダラ		1 710
6	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		1 364
7	Chinese (zh) 君主斑蝶		1 349
8	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		1 279
9	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		1 271
10	Portuguese (pt) Borboleta-monarca		1 231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Monarch butterfly		907
2	German (de) Monarchfalter		194
3	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		175
4	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		170
5	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		120
6	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		87
7	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		60
8	Hebrew (he) דנאית מלכותית		50
9	Danish (da) Monark (sommerfugl)		43
10	Hungarian (hu) Pompás királylepke		42

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) Monarch butterfly		5
2	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		2
3	Arabic (ar) فراشة ملكية		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Monarx kəpənək		1
5	Czech (cs) Monarcha stěhovavý		1
6	Finnish (fi) Monarkkiperhonen		1
7	Croatian (hr) Monarh (leptir)		1
8	Japanese (ja) オオカバマダラ		1
9	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Borboleta-monarca		1

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

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