Sperm whale

Quality:

Sperm whale - largest species of toothed whale. This taxon is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 96^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sperm whale” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 380 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 6637^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4287^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 96^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4668^th most popular in all topics.

The 3924^th most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5882^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5286^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Sperm whale” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 28 authors in all languages (5286^th place).

Since the creation of article “Sperm whale”, its content was written by 1176 registered users of English Wikipedia (4287^th place) and edited by 3969 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3924^th place).

Sperm whale is on the 96^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1174 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6922 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #258 in February 2004
• Global: #664 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #448 in January 2012
• Global: #1150 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, 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) Sperm whale		100
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		100
3	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		100
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		99.6641
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		98.523
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		98.4501
8	French (fr) Grand cachalot		97.985
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cá nhà táng		90.5801
10	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		76.3685

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sperm whale		17 525 668
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		3 456 644
3	German (de) Pottwal		3 453 374
4	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		2 833 371
5	French (fr) Grand cachalot		2 185 061
6	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		1 882 666
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1 621 026
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		1 394 157
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		874 234
10	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		751 527

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		66 232
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		15 342
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		10 816
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		10 290
5	German (de) Pottwal		9 599
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		6 157
7	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		5 344
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		4 519
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		4 191
10	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		2 841

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		1 176
2	German (de) Pottwal		343
3	French (fr) Grand cachalot		255
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		196
5	Russian (ru) Кашалот		157
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		152
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		152
8	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		104
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		94
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	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		4
2	English (en) Sperm whale		4
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		4
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		4
5	German (de) Pottwal		3
6	Persian (fa) نهنگ عنبر		3
7	Russian (ru) Кашалот		2
8	Galician (gl) Cachalote		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Nagy ámbráscet		1
10	Swedish (sv) Kaskelot		1

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

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