Selective breeding

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Selective breeding

Quality:

Artificial selection - process by which humans use animal and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits. Article “Selective breeding” in English Wikipedia has 82.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Selective breeding” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Selective breeding”, its content was written by 642 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1586 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1811 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #151 in April 2002
  • Global: #220 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #18045 in March 2010
  • Global: #18572 in October 2011

There are 42 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Selective breeding
82.5303
2Hebrew (he)
ברירה מלאכותית
56.479
3Tamil (ta)
தேர்ந்தெடுத்த இனப்பெருக்கம்
44.8716
4German (de)
Zucht
44.5258
5Catalan (ca)
Selecció artificial
39.5856
6Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اصطناعي
39.0413
7Indonesian (id)
Seleksi buatan
36.8821
8Turkish (tr)
Yapay seçilim
29.2429
9Spanish (es)
Selección artificial
28.3986
10Portuguese (pt)
Seleção artificial
27.231
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Selective breeding" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Selective breeding
5 122 059
2Spanish (es)
Selección artificial
1 659 949
3German (de)
Zucht
1 068 435
4Russian (ru)
Искусственный отбор
637 692
5Portuguese (pt)
Seleção artificial
467 059
6Ukrainian (uk)
Штучний добір
311 219
7Polish (pl)
Dobór hodowlany
215 134
8Italian (it)
Selezione artificiale
111 530
9Finnish (fi)
Jalostus (biologia)
100 955
10Simple English (simple)
Artificial selection
92 529
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Selective breeding" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Selective breeding
7 916
2German (de)
Zucht
1 189
3Spanish (es)
Selección artificial
473
4Russian (ru)
Искусственный отбор
429
5Chinese (zh)
人工選擇
380
6Portuguese (pt)
Seleção artificial
347
7Persian (fa)
زادگیری گزینشی
313
8Japanese (ja)
人為選択
240
9Korean (ko)
품종개량
214
10Finnish (fi)
Jalostus (biologia)
160
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Selective breeding" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Selective breeding
642
2German (de)
Zucht
278
3Spanish (es)
Selección artificial
107
4Portuguese (pt)
Seleção artificial
51
5Hebrew (he)
ברירה מלאכותית
48
6Danish (da)
Kunstig selektion
33
7Italian (it)
Selezione artificiale
32
8Russian (ru)
Искусственный отбор
30
9Finnish (fi)
Jalostus (biologia)
28
10Japanese (ja)
人為選択
27
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Selective breeding" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Selecció artificial
1
2Danish (da)
Kunstig selektion
1
3English (en)
Selective breeding
1
4Serbian (sr)
Veštačka selekcija
1
5Tamil (ta)
தேர்ந்தெடுத்த இனப்பெருக்கம்
1
6Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اصطناعي
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Süni seçmə
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Изкуствен отбор
0
9Czech (cs)
Šlechtění
0
10German (de)
Zucht
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Selective breeding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Zucht
2 511
2English (en)
Selective breeding
1 811
3Portuguese (pt)
Seleção artificial
282
4Arabic (ar)
اصطفاء اصطناعي
276
5Chinese (zh)
人工選擇
276
6Turkish (tr)
Yapay seçilim
235
7Persian (fa)
زادگیری گزینشی
208
8Finnish (fi)
Jalostus (biologia)
191
9Russian (ru)
Искусственный отбор
189
10Korean (ko)
품종개량
182
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اصطفاء اصطناعي
azAzerbaijani
Süni seçmə
bgBulgarian
Изкуствен отбор
caCatalan
Selecció artificial
csCzech
Šlechtění
daDanish
Kunstig selektion
deGerman
Zucht
elGreek
Τεχνητή επιλογή
enEnglish
Selective breeding
eoEsperanto
Selekta bredado
esSpanish
Selección artificial
etEstonian
Aretus
euBasque
Hautespen artifizial
faPersian
زادگیری گزینشی
fiFinnish
Jalostus (biologia)
frFrench
Sélection artificielle
glGalician
Selección artificial
heHebrew
ברירה מלאכותית
hiHindi
वरणात्मक प्रजनन
hrCroatian
Umjetna selekcija
hyArmenian
Սելեկցիա
idIndonesian
Seleksi buatan
itItalian
Selezione artificiale
jaJapanese
人為選択
kaGeorgian
ხელოვნური გადარჩევა
kkKazakh
Таңдап өсіру
koKorean
품종개량
msMalay
Pembiakbakaan terpilih
nlDutch
Kunstmatige selectie
plPolish
Dobór hodowlany
ptPortuguese
Seleção artificial
ruRussian
Искусственный отбор
simpleSimple English
Artificial selection
srSerbian
Veštačka selekcija
taTamil
தேர்ந்தெடுத்த இனப்பெருக்கம்
thThai
การคัดเลือกพันธุ์
trTurkish
Yapay seçilim
ukUkrainian
Штучний добір
uzUzbek
Chatishtirish
viVietnamese
Nhân giống chọn lọc
zhChinese
人工選擇
zhminnanMin Nan
Io̍k-chéng

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#18045
03.2010
Global:
#18572
10.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#151
04.2002
Global:
#220
04.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Artificial selection from Wikipedia articles about Dog, Natural selection, Project Hail Mary, Yakub and Charles Darwin. Whereas reading the article about Artificial selection people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Animal breeding, Plant breeding, Zea, Inbreeding and Sexual reproduction.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

de: Zucht
et: Aretus
zhminnan: Io̍k-chéng

News from 1 July 2026

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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