Octopus

Quality:

Octopoda - order of molluscs. This taxon is the 61^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 44^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Octopus” in English Wikipedia has 98.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 237 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4076^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3292^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 44^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3507^th most popular in all topics.

The 4229^th most popular in AI.

The 61^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5258^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8087^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Octopus” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (8087^th place).

Since the creation of article “Octopus”, its content was written by 1304 registered users of English Wikipedia (3292^nd place) and edited by 3823 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4229^th place).

Octopoda is on the 44^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 61^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1742 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10311 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #109 in July 2002
• Global: #244 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #575 in January 2015
• Global: #472 in July 2010

There are 51 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	Japanese (ja) タコ		100
2	Spanish (es) Octopoda		100
3	English (en) Octopus		98.8999
4	Polish (pl) Ośmiornice		98.0087
5	Chinese (zh) 八腕目		96.7214
6	Turkish (tr) Ahtapot		93.7342
7	Greek (el) Χταπόδι		74.9688
8	Malay (ms) Gurita		72.1446
9	Persian (fa) هشت‌پا		62.1603
10	Indonesian (id) Gurita		57.6453

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Octopus		22 532 770
2	Spanish (es) Octopoda		5 051 754
3	Japanese (ja) タコ		3 630 192
4	German (de) Kraken		3 381 224
5	Russian (ru) Осьминоги		2 900 143
6	Portuguese (pt) Polvo		1 711 417
7	Polish (pl) Ośmiornice		1 613 554
8	Chinese (zh) 八腕目		998 358
9	Turkish (tr) Ahtapot		811 517
10	Arabic (ar) أخطبوطيات		781 877

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) Octopus		66 119
2	Turkish (tr) Ahtapot		24 049
3	Japanese (ja) タコ		11 721
4	Russian (ru) Осьминоги		11 434
5	Spanish (es) Octopoda		11 116
6	German (de) Kraken		9 396
7	Chinese (zh) 八腕目		6 041
8	Portuguese (pt) Polvo		3 956
9	Polish (pl) Ośmiornice		3 450
10	Romanian (ro) Caracatiță		2 827

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Octopus		1 304
2	German (de) Kraken		264
3	Japanese (ja) タコ		238
4	Spanish (es) Octopoda		205
5	Russian (ru) Осьминоги		188
6	Dutch (nl) Octopoda		132
7	Hebrew (he) תמנונאים		105
8	Portuguese (pt) Polvo		105
9	Chinese (zh) 八腕目		95
10	Polish (pl) Ośmiornice		88

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) Octopus		7
2	French (fr) Octopoda		4
3	Japanese (ja) タコ		3
4	Romanian (ro) Caracatiță		3
5	Serbian (sr) Хоботница		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Səkkizayaqlılar		1
7	Hebrew (he) תמנונאים		1
8	Urdu (ur) آکٹوپس		1
9	Chinese (zh) 八腕目		1
10	Arabic (ar) أخطبوطيات		0

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

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