Sperm whale

Quality:

Sperm whale - largest species of toothed whale. This taxon is the 92^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 93^rd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sperm whale” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 438 references and 37 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:

en

The 6679^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4376^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 93^rd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4580^th most popular in all topics.

The 3927^th most popular in AI.

The 92^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6914^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3935^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Sperm whale” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sperm whale”, its content was written by 1197 registered users of English Wikipedia (4376^th place) and edited by 4016 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3927^th place).

Sperm whale is on the 93^rd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 92^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1196 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7029 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #259 in February 2004
• Global: #663 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #449 in January 2012
• Global: #1161 in January 2012

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	English (en) Sperm whale		100
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		100
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		100
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		100
5	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		100
6	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		99.6015
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		98.0349
8	French (fr) Grand cachalot		97.9157
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cá nhà táng		90.3589
10	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		78.1458

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sperm whale		18 375 149
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		3 845 762
3	German (de) Pottwal		3 673 712
4	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		2 976 946
5	French (fr) Grand cachalot		2 301 315
6	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		1 959 597
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1 739 609
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		1 454 851
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		922 943
10	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		773 010

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) Sperm whale		76 700
2	German (de) Pottwal		16 988
3	Russian (ru) Кашалот		13 252
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		11 808
5	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		11 334
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		6 669
7	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		5 962
8	Turkish (tr) İspermeçet balinası		5 117
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		4 657
10	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		3 755

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sperm whale		1 197
2	German (de) Pottwal		349
3	French (fr) Grand cachalot		266
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		200
5	Russian (ru) Кашалот		161
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		158
7	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		154
8	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		108
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		98
10	Hebrew (he) ראשתן גדול-ראש		93

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	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		4
2	English (en) Sperm whale		3
3	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		2
4	Russian (ru) Кашалот		2
5	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kaşalot		1
7	Catalan (ca) Catxalot		1
8	Czech (cs) Vorvaň obrovský		1
9	Basque (eu) Kaxalote		1
10	French (fr) Grand cachalot		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