Penguin

Quality:

Penguin - family of birds in the order Sphenisciformes. This taxon is the 28^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 41^st most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Penguin” in English Wikipedia has 94.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 139 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 3931^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4220^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 41^st most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1947^th most popular in all topics.

The 1519^th most popular in AI.

The 28^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6465^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9152^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Penguin”, its content was written by 1212 registered users of English Wikipedia (4220^th place) and edited by 5590 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1519^th place).

Penguin is on the 41^st place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 28^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1616 times in English Wikipedia and cited 20071 times in all languages (8591^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #214 in February 2002
• Global: #119 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14 in September 2013
• Global: #37 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, 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	Czech (cs) Tučňáci		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		97.2867
3	Esperanto (eo) Pingveno		97.1429
4	Hindi (hi) पेंगुइन		94.2857
5	English (en) Penguin		94.1763
6	Norwegian (no) Pingviner		75.0483
7	Malay (ms) Penguin		73.5665
8	Finnish (fi) Pingviinit		73.2642
9	German (de) Pinguine		70.6449
10	Romanian (ro) Pinguin		67.6833

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penguin		24 217 915
2	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		6 084 434
3	German (de) Pinguine		5 536 253
4	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		4 514 118
5	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		4 159 489
6	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		2 597 880
7	Polish (pl) Pingwiny		2 303 254
8	Chinese (zh) 企鵝		1 887 045
9	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		1 815 426
10	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		1 641 337

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		58 382
2	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		12 497
3	German (de) Pinguine		8 290
4	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		7 917
5	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		6 981
6	Chinese (zh) 企鵝		4 570
7	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		3 591
8	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		3 133
9	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		2 849
10	Polish (pl) Pingwiny		2 730

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penguin		1 212
2	German (de) Pinguine		407
3	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		317
4	French (fr) Sphenisciformes		292
5	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		271
6	Russian (ru) Пингвиновые		253
7	Dutch (nl) Pinguïns		220
8	Japanese (ja) ペンギン		208
9	Hebrew (he) פינגוויניים		177
10	Portuguese (pt) Pinguim		177

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	Slovenian (sl) Pingvini		4
2	Chinese (zh) 企鵝		3
3	Spanish (es) Spheniscidae		2
4	Italian (it) Spheniscidae		2
5	Serbian (sr) Пингвини		2
6	Arabic (ar) بطريق		1
7	Catalan (ca) Pingüins		1
8	German (de) Pinguine		1
9	Greek (el) Πιγκουίνος		1
10	Basque (eu) Pinguino		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information