Orca

Quality:

Orcinus orca - species in the oceanic dolphin family. This taxon is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 8^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Orca” in English Wikipedia has 98.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 328 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1827^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1985^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 8^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1379^th most popular in all topics.

The 1552^nd most popular in AI.

The 17^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3804^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2020^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3726^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Orca” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 34 authors in all languages (3726^th place).

Since the creation of article “Orca”, its content was written by 1589 registered users of English Wikipedia (1985^th place) and edited by 5556 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1552^nd place).

Orcinus orca is on the 8^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1777 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9351 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22 in January 2005
• Global: #118 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #72 in September 2014
• Global: #233 in September 2014

There are 53 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	German (de) Schwertwal		100
2	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		100
3	Persian (fa) نهنگ قاتل		100
4	English (en) Orca		98.5415
5	Japanese (ja) シャチ		98.3179
6	Korean (ko) 범고래		98.0915
7	Indonesian (id) Paus pembunuh		97.552
8	Hebrew (he) קטלן		78.4272
9	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		76.178
10	Polish (pl) Orka oceaniczna		74.6572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orca		34 815 160
2	Japanese (ja) シャチ		6 233 426
3	German (de) Schwertwal		5 968 063
4	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		5 958 270
5	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		5 550 706
6	French (fr) Orque		4 313 819
7	Portuguese (pt) Orca		2 220 923
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		2 068 976
9	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		2 050 755
10	Dutch (nl) Orka		1 366 073

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) Orca		110 920
2	German (de) Schwertwal		22 787
3	Japanese (ja) シャチ		22 426
4	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		20 395
5	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		13 543
6	French (fr) Orque		11 869
7	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		9 477
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		8 890
9	Portuguese (pt) Orca		6 483
10	Polish (pl) Orka oceaniczna		5 316

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orca		1 589
2	French (fr) Orque		424
3	German (de) Schwertwal		413
4	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		256
5	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		249
6	Dutch (nl) Orka		227
7	Japanese (ja) シャチ		211
8	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		181
9	Hebrew (he) קטלן		148
10	Portuguese (pt) Orca		144

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	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		9
2	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		5
3	Japanese (ja) シャチ		5
4	English (en) Orca		4
5	Indonesian (id) Paus pembunuh		2
6	Korean (ko) 범고래		2
7	Catalan (ca) Orca		1
8	French (fr) Orque		1
9	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Orka		1

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

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