Sloth bear

Quality:

Sloth bear - species of bear common to the Indian subcontinent. This taxon is the 1093^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 640^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sloth bear” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 141 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 640^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1093^rd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Sloth bear”, its content was written by 361 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sloth bear is on the 640^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1093^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 862 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6744 in December 2010
• Global: #4274 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6624 in April 2016
• Global: #13078 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, 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	English (en) Sloth bear		100
2	Galician (gl) Melursus ursinus		75.0875
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leppebjørn		65.4366
4	Armenian (hy) Ծույլ արջ		64.3059
5	Swedish (sv) Läppbjörn		50.5782
6	German (de) Lippenbär		50.1514
7	Croatian (hr) Usnati medvjed		41.9414
8	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		40.4618
9	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		39.9763
10	Slovak (sk) Medveď pyskatý		39.5259

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sloth bear		5 882 150
2	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		616 035
3	German (de) Lippenbär		430 055
4	Russian (ru) Губач		355 512
5	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		337 450
6	French (fr) Ours lippu		257 247
7	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		226 036
8	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		142 151
9	Swedish (sv) Läppbjörn		131 530
10	Portuguese (pt) Urso-beiçudo		115 771

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		30 070
2	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		3 606
3	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		3 294
4	Japanese (ja) ナマケグマ		2 918
5	German (de) Lippenbär		2 271
6	Russian (ru) Губач		1 997
7	Portuguese (pt) Urso-beiçudo		1 337
8	French (fr) Ours lippu		1 144
9	Polish (pl) Wargacz leniwy		818
10	Chinese (zh) 懒熊		799

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		361
2	German (de) Lippenbär		94
3	French (fr) Ours lippu		78
4	Dutch (nl) Lippenbeer		72
5	Italian (it) Melursus ursinus		70
6	Russian (ru) Губач		64
7	Norwegian (no) Leppebjørn		54
8	Danish (da) Læbebjørn		52
9	Spanish (es) Melursus ursinus		47
10	Vietnamese (vi) Gấu lợn		46

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	Catalan (ca) Os morrut		1
2	Persian (fa) خرس تنبل		1
3	Arabic (ar) دب كسلان		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Tənbəl ayı		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Бърнеста мечка		0
6	Czech (cs) Medvěd pyskatý		0
7	Danish (da) Læbebjørn		0
8	German (de) Lippenbär		0
9	English (en) Sloth bear		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Longlipa urso		0

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

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