Monarch butterfly

Quality:

Danaus plexippus - milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. This taxon is the 462^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 340^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Monarch butterfly” in English Wikipedia has 87.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 335 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 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 8571^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 340^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 462^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8536^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Monarch butterfly” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8536^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Monarch butterfly”, its content was written by 886 registered users of English Wikipedia (8571^st place) and edited by 2307 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Danaus plexippus is on the 340^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 462^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 614 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1865 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #794 in September 2014
• Global: #1930 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7645 in July 2022
• Global: #8794 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, 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	Simple English (simple) Monarch butterfly		98.1614
2	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		96.8254
3	German (de) Monarchfalter		96.5339
4	English (en) Monarch butterfly		87.5058
5	Serbian (sr) Монарх (лептир)		83.5664
6	Chinese (zh) 君主斑蝶		79.8123
7	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		66.8557
8	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		63.0234
9	Swedish (sv) Monark (fjäril)		59.8422
10	Galician (gl) Bolboreta monarca		58.7421

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monarch butterfly		9 341 525
2	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		3 832 453
3	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		1 042 124
4	German (de) Monarchfalter		756 819
5	Portuguese (pt) Borboleta-monarca		603 993
6	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		328 682
7	Japanese (ja) オオカバマダラ		305 508
8	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		258 951
9	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		255 593
10	Indonesian (id) Kupu-kupu raja		189 518

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		39 979
2	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		11 630
3	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		4 987
4	German (de) Monarchfalter		4 154
5	Japanese (ja) オオカバマダラ		2 068
6	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		1 607
7	Chinese (zh) 君主斑蝶		1 535
8	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		1 435
9	Portuguese (pt) Borboleta-monarca		1 323
10	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		1 140

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		886
2	German (de) Monarchfalter		190
3	Spanish (es) Danaus plexippus		171
4	French (fr) Monarque (papillon)		164
5	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		117
6	Italian (it) Danaus plexippus		83
7	Russian (ru) Данаида монарх		57
8	Hebrew (he) דנאית מלכותית		48
9	Hungarian (hu) Pompás királylepke		42
10	Norwegian (no) Monarksommerfugl		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		10
2	German (de) Monarchfalter		2
3	Catalan (ca) Monarca (papallona)		1
4	Galician (gl) Bolboreta monarca		1
5	Korean (ko) 제왕나비		1
6	Dutch (nl) Monarchvlinder		1
7	Arabic (ar) فراشة ملكية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Monarx kəpənək		0
9	Belarusian (be) Danaus plexippus		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Пеперуда монарх		0

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

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