Starling

Quality:

Sturnidae - family of birds. This taxon is the 1407^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 852^nd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Starling” in English Wikipedia has 61.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 48 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.24 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 852^nd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1407^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Starling” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Starling”, its content was written by 294 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1052 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sturnidae is on the 852^nd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1407^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1331 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7092 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4563 in July 2003
• Global: #3564 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7424 in November 2011
• Global: #15232 in November 2011

There are 50 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Starefamilien		88.5222
2	German (de) Stare		70.0056
3	Esperanto (eo) Sturnedoj		62.4264
4	English (en) Starling		61.5131
5	Latin (la) Sturnidae		45.3708
6	Simple English (simple) Starling		41.3827
7	Spanish (es) Sturnidae		37.797
8	Slovenian (sl) Škorci		36.355
9	Persian (fa) سار		35.7253
10	Romanian (ro) Graur		35.1004

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Starling		4 684 002
2	German (de) Stare		627 508
3	Persian (fa) سار		281 683
4	Indonesian (id) Jalak		213 416
5	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		151 406
6	French (fr) Sturnidae		126 229
7	Arabic (ar) زرزوريات		117 673
8	Chinese (zh) 椋鸟科		117 347
9	Polish (pl) Szpakowate		114 730
10	Dutch (nl) Spreeuwen		111 389

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) Starling		28 576
2	German (de) Stare		1 754
3	Chinese (zh) 椋鸟科		1 269
4	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		1 040
5	French (fr) Sturnidae		1 018
6	Simple English (simple) Starling		988
7	Persian (fa) سار		979
8	Indonesian (id) Jalak		711
9	Romanian (ro) Graur		658
10	Spanish (es) Sturnidae		656

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Starling		294
2	German (de) Stare		113
3	Dutch (nl) Spreeuwen		59
4	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		40
5	French (fr) Sturnidae		38
6	Hungarian (hu) Seregélyfélék		34
7	Danish (da) Stære		29
8	Persian (fa) سار		26
9	Italian (it) Sturnidae		24
10	Vietnamese (vi) Họ Sáo		23

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	English (en) Starling		4
2	French (fr) Sturnidae		1
3	Malay (ms) Perling		1
4	Arabic (ar) زرزوريات		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sığırçınlar		0
6	Belarusian (be) Шпаковыя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Скорецови		0
8	Catalan (ca) Estúrnids		0
9	Czech (cs) Špačkovití		0
10	Danish (da) Stære		0

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

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