Stoat

Quality:

Mustela erminea - species of mustelid (Mustelidae). This taxon is the 261^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 289^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Stoat” in English Wikipedia has 92 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 103 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 289^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 261^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8362^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Stoat” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Stoat”, its content was written by 530 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Mustela erminea is on the 289^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 261^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1232 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9028 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2792 in October 2003
• Global: #1159 in February 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2873 in February 2026
• Global: #2057 in February 2026

There are 49 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	French (fr) Mustela erminea		93.7186
2	English (en) Stoat		91.9824
3	Finnish (fi) Kärppä		82.7426
4	Russian (ru) Горностай		81.7654
5	Catalan (ca) Ermini		79.4688
6	Portuguese (pt) Arminho		79.2807
7	Slovak (sk) Lasica hranostaj		56.8175
8	German (de) Hermelin		52.98
9	Swedish (sv) Hermelin		51.4989
10	Latin (la) Mustela erminea		51.2141

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stoat		10 723 253
2	German (de) Hermelin		2 729 733
3	Russian (ru) Горностай		2 164 812
4	Japanese (ja) オコジョ		1 859 488
5	Finnish (fi) Kärppä		1 023 069
6	Spanish (es) Mustela erminea		1 011 587
7	Polish (pl) Gronostaj europejski		988 136
8	Italian (it) Mustela erminea		799 398
9	Swedish (sv) Hermelin		698 499
10	Dutch (nl) Hermelijn (dier)		677 861

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) Stoat		43 728
2	German (de) Hermelin		12 180
3	Japanese (ja) オコジョ		6 954
4	Russian (ru) Горностай		6 589
5	Spanish (es) Mustela erminea		5 636
6	Finnish (fi) Kärppä		5 254
7	French (fr) Mustela erminea		3 671
8	Dutch (nl) Hermelijn (dier)		3 209
9	Polish (pl) Gronostaj europejski		2 850
10	Italian (it) Mustela erminea		2 604

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stoat		530
2	German (de) Hermelin		191
3	Italian (it) Mustela erminea		140
4	Finnish (fi) Kärppä		124
5	Russian (ru) Горностай		119
6	Dutch (nl) Hermelijn (dier)		118
7	Hungarian (hu) Hermelin		72
8	Japanese (ja) オコジョ		67
9	Danish (da) Lækat		60
10	Polish (pl) Gronostaj europejski		59

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	French (fr) Mustela erminea		3
2	English (en) Stoat		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Qaraquyruq gəlincik		1
4	Catalan (ca) Ermini		1
5	Basque (eu) Erbinude zuri		1
6	Italian (it) Mustela erminea		1
7	Japanese (ja) オコジョ		1
8	Norwegian (no) Røyskatt		1
9	Serbian (sr) Велика ласица		1
10	Tamil (ta) குறுவால் மரநாய்		1

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

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