Sloth bear

Quality:

Sloth bear - species of bear common to the Indian subcontinent. This taxon is the 1053^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 619^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sloth bear” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 144 references and 18 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 619^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1053^rd most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Sloth bear” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sloth bear”, its content was written by 368 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1369 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sloth bear is on the 619^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1053^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 880 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5542 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6752 in December 2010
• Global: #4270 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6671 in April 2016
• Global: #13112 in April 2016

There are 46 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	English (en) Sloth bear		100
2	French (fr) Ours lippu		88.5624
3	Galician (gl) Melursus ursinus		74.9597
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leppebjørn		65.4366
5	Armenian (hy) Ծույլ արջ		64.1609
6	German (de) Lippenbär		50.3344
7	Swedish (sv) Läppbjörn		49.8225
8	Croatian (hr) Usnati medvjed		41.9338
9	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		40.4298
10	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		39.8197

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sloth bear		6 273 308
2	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		667 539
3	German (de) Lippenbär		468 635
4	Russian (ru) Губач		396 313
5	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		394 403
6	French (fr) Ours lippu		278 998
7	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		251 218
8	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		152 580
9	Swedish (sv) Läppbjörn		139 359
10	Portuguese (pt) Urso-beiçudo		124 710

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) Sloth bear		26 254
2	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		3 299
3	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		2 902
4	German (de) Lippenbär		2 214
5	Russian (ru) Губач		1 957
6	French (fr) Ours lippu		1 625
7	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		1 223
8	Polish (pl) Wargacz leniwy		927
9	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		605
10	Portuguese (pt) Urso-beiçudo		517

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sloth bear		368
2	German (de) Lippenbär		102
3	French (fr) Ours lippu		89
4	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		74
5	Dutch (nl) Lippenbeer		72
6	Russian (ru) Губач		64
7	Danish (da) Læbebjørn		53
8	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		47
9	Vietnamese (vi) Gấu lợn		46
10	Hebrew (he) דוב שפתני		41

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) Sloth bear		4
2	French (fr) Ours lippu		2
3	Arabic (ar) دب كسلان		1
4	German (de) Lippenbär		1
5	Simple English (simple) Sloth bear		1
6	Swedish (sv) Läppbjörn		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Tənbəl ayı		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Бърнеста мечка		0
9	Catalan (ca) Os morrut		0
10	Czech (cs) Medvěd pyskatý		0

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

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