Penguin

Quality:

Penguin - family of birds in the order Sphenisciformes. This taxon is the 29^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 40^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Penguin” in English Wikipedia has 94.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 136 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3858^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4136^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 40^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1938^th most popular in all topics.

The 1505^th most popular in AI.

The 29^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9250^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5316^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Penguin” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Penguin”, its content was written by 1191 registered users of English Wikipedia (4136^th place) and edited by 5542 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1505^th place).

Penguin is on the 40^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1591 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17549 times in all languages (9515^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #213 in February 2002
• Global: #119 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14 in September 2013
• Global: #35 in September 2013

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, 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	Czech (cs) Tučňáci		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Pingveno		97.1429
3	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		96.7605
4	Hindi (hi) पेंगुइन		94.2857
5	English (en) Penguin		94.1098
6	Norwegian (no) Pingviner		75.3179
7	Finnish (fi) Pingviinit		73.3147
8	German (de) Pinguine		72.5316
9	Malay (ms) Penguin		71.3084
10	Romanian (ro) Pinguin		67.8655

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penguin		23 289 401
2	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		5 939 723
3	German (de) Pinguine		5 395 950
4	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		4 016 894
5	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		3 982 921
6	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		2 555 299
7	Polish (pl) Pingwiny		2 250 264
8	Chinese (zh) 企鵝		1 809 273
9	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		1 749 038
10	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		1 583 298

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) Penguin		71 014
2	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		13 728
3	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		12 607
4	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		9 369
5	German (de) Pinguine		8 998
6	Chinese (zh) 企鵝		8 052
7	Simple English (simple) Penguin		3 817
8	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		3 783
9	Korean (ko) 펭귄		3 616
10	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		3 481

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penguin		1 191
2	German (de) Pinguine		403
3	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		311
4	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		287
5	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		264
6	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		243
7	Dutch (nl) Pinguïns		218
8	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		201
9	Hebrew (he) פינגוויניים		175
10	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		171

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	Arabic (ar) بطريق		2
2	English (en) Penguin		2
3	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		2
4	Indonesian (id) Penguin		2
5	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		2
6	Georgian (ka) პინგვინისნაირნი		2
7	Serbian (sr) Пингвини		2
8	Catalan (ca) Pingüins		1
9	Finnish (fi) Pingviinit		1
10	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		1

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

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