Sponge

Quality:

Porifera - phylum of animals. This taxon is the 130^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 193^rd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sponge” in English Wikipedia has 96 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 279 references and 42 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5219^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 193^rd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6464^th most popular in all topics.

The 4378^th most popular in AI.

The 130^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Sponge” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sponge”, its content was written by 1117 registered users of English Wikipedia (5219^th place) and edited by 3817 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4378^th place).

Porifera is on the 193^rd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 130^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 3582 times in English Wikipedia (8211^th place) and cited 50257 times in all languages (3259^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #78 in April 2002
• Global: #107 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1538 in April 2012
• Global: #2377 in April 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	Russian (ru) Губки		100
2	Estonian (et) Käsnad		96.0762
3	English (en) Sponge		96.0244
4	Malay (ms) Bunga karang		95
5	Basque (eu) Belaki		81.25
6	Spanish (es) Porifera		76.7269
7	French (fr) Porifera		75.3046
8	Slovenian (sl) Spužve		75.1985
9	Italian (it) Porifera		71.7901
10	Simple English (simple) Sponge (animal)		62.0754

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sponge		13 182 322
2	Spanish (es) Porifera		6 119 951
3	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		2 287 060
4	Russian (ru) Губки		1 731 567
5	German (de) Schwämme		1 516 511
6	Indonesian (id) Spons laut		1 206 495
7	Japanese (ja) 海綿動物		1 135 963
8	French (fr) Porifera		1 097 348
9	Italian (it) Porifera		974 691
10	Polish (pl) Gąbki		934 821

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) Sponge		30 963
2	Spanish (es) Porifera		4 997
3	Japanese (ja) 海綿動物		3 589
4	Russian (ru) Губки		3 554
5	German (de) Schwämme		3 407
6	Chinese (zh) 海绵		2 476
7	French (fr) Porifera		2 322
8	Italian (it) Porifera		1 885
9	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		1 718
10	Polish (pl) Gąbki		1 449

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sponge		1 117
2	German (de) Schwämme		296
3	French (fr) Porifera		206
4	Spanish (es) Porifera		191
5	Italian (it) Porifera		154
6	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		154
7	Russian (ru) Губки		146
8	Dutch (nl) Sponzen		124
9	Polish (pl) Gąbki		100
10	Hungarian (hu) Szivacsok		73

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	Italian (it) Porifera		2
2	Simple English (simple) Sponge (animal)		2
3	Catalan (ca) Esponges de mar		1
4	English (en) Sponge		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Szivacsok		1
6	Slovak (sk) Hubky		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Ngành Thân lỗ		1
8	Arabic (ar) إسفنجيات		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Süngərlər		0
10	Belarusian (be) Губкі		0

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

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