Sponge spicule

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Sponge spicule

Quality:

Spicule - unit of the skeleton of some marine invertebrates, made of carbonate calcium or silica. Article “Sponge spicule” in English Wikipedia has 92.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 173 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.86 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Sponge spicule” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sponge spicule”, its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 212 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 298 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7871 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #69106 in June 2023
  • Global: #98755 in December 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #51298 in March 2020
  • Global: #86408 in March 2020

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Sponge spicule
92.2857
2German (de)
Sklerit
44.5234
3Chinese (zh)
海綿骨針
35.3523
4Ukrainian (uk)
Спікули губок
31.2936
5Indonesian (id)
Spikula spons
29.3812
6Russian (ru)
Спикулы губок
29.074
7Polish (pl)
Spikule
28.8362
8Persian (fa)
سوزنه
23.1785
9Basque (eu)
Espikula
22.7045
10Spanish (es)
Espícula
15.364
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Sponge spicule" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sponge spicule
631 439
2Spanish (es)
Espícula
371 850
3German (de)
Sklerit
68 244
4Italian (it)
Spicola (spugne)
44 291
5Polish (pl)
Spikule
28 020
6Russian (ru)
Спикулы губок
24 346
7Korean (ko)
골편
11 082
8Dutch (nl)
Skeletnaald
9 507
9Chinese (zh)
海綿骨針
6 053
10Galician (gl)
Espícula
5 563
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Sponge spicule" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sponge spicule
1 872
2Spanish (es)
Espícula
300
3German (de)
Sklerit
218
4Chinese (zh)
海綿骨針
173
5Russian (ru)
Спикулы губок
122
6Italian (it)
Spicola (spugne)
99
7Portuguese (pt)
Espículas
88
8Korean (ko)
골편
52
9Polish (pl)
Spikule
46
10Dutch (nl)
Skeletnaald
40
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Sponge spicule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sponge spicule
56
2German (de)
Sklerit
32
3Spanish (es)
Espícula
22
4Italian (it)
Spicola (spugne)
16
5Dutch (nl)
Skeletnaald
14
6Korean (ko)
골편
10
7Polish (pl)
Spikule
9
8Persian (fa)
سوزنه
7
9Lithuanian (lt)
Spikulė
7
10Russian (ru)
Спикулы губок
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Sponge spicule" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sponge spicule
2
2Catalan (ca)
Espícula (esponja)
0
3German (de)
Sklerit
0
4Spanish (es)
Espícula
0
5Basque (eu)
Espikula
0
6Persian (fa)
سوزنه
0
7Galician (gl)
Espícula
0
8Indonesian (id)
Spikula spons
0
9Italian (it)
Spicola (spugne)
0
10Korean (ko)
골편
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Sponge spicule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Dutch (nl)
Skeletnaald
6 717
2German (de)
Sklerit
351
3English (en)
Sponge spicule
298
4Spanish (es)
Espícula
180
5Catalan (ca)
Espícula (esponja)
119
6Italian (it)
Spicola (spugne)
41
7Galician (gl)
Espícula
29
8Ukrainian (uk)
Спікули губок
24
9Russian (ru)
Спикулы губок
22
10Persian (fa)
سوزنه
20
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Espícula (esponja)
deGerman
Sklerit
enEnglish
Sponge spicule
esSpanish
Espícula
euBasque
Espikula
faPersian
سوزنه
glGalician
Espícula
idIndonesian
Spikula spons
itItalian
Spicola (spugne)
koKorean
골편
ltLithuanian
Spikulė
nlDutch
Skeletnaald
plPolish
Spikule
ptPortuguese
Espículas
ruRussian
Спикулы губок
ukUkrainian
Спікули губок
zhChinese
海綿骨針

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#51298
03.2020
Global:
#86408
03.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#69106
06.2023
Global:
#98755
12.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Spicule from Wikipedia articles about Hexactinellid, Porifera, Spicule, Chrysomallon squamiferum and Flint. Whereas reading the article about Spicule people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Porifera, Venus Flower Basket, Hexactinellid, Demospongiae and Silicon dioxide.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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