Tarantula

Quality:

Theraphosidae - family of spiders. This taxon is the 275^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 201^st most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Tarantula” in English Wikipedia has 73.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8835^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 201^st most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 275^th most popular in taxon.

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

Since the creation of article “Tarantula”, its content was written by 897 registered users of English Wikipedia (8835^th place) and edited by 2417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Theraphosidae is on the 201^st place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 275^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1449 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12390 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #813 in July 2003
• Global: #3626 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4380 in June 2014
• Global: #7164 in October 2008

There are 47 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	Portuguese (pt) Terafosídeos		84.1235
2	English (en) Tarantula		73.5894
3	Latin (la) Theraphosidae		70.3208
4	Dutch (nl) Vogelspinnen		67.1828
5	Russian (ru) Пауки-птицееды		59.2606
6	Chinese (zh) 捕鳥蛛科		56.3111
7	German (de) Vogelspinnen		55.8633
8	Hungarian (hu) Madárpókfélék		49.3504
9	Italian (it) Theraphosidae		47.6669
10	Catalan (ca) Terafòsids		41.0605

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tarantula		12 909 000
2	German (de) Vogelspinnen		2 653 265
3	Russian (ru) Пауки-птицееды		2 298 025
4	Spanish (es) Theraphosidae		898 272
5	Italian (it) Theraphosidae		838 101
6	Dutch (nl) Vogelspinnen		835 454
7	Polish (pl) Ptasznikowate		766 021
8	Japanese (ja) オオツチグモ科		475 446
9	Hungarian (hu) Madárpókfélék		365 316
10	Persian (fa) تارانتولا		325 955

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) Tarantula		35 415
2	Russian (ru) Пауки-птицееды		5 717
3	German (de) Vogelspinnen		5 266
4	Spanish (es) Theraphosidae		3 505
5	Persian (fa) تارانتولا		2 409
6	Italian (it) Theraphosidae		2 283
7	Turkish (tr) Tarantula		1 829
8	Japanese (ja) オオツチグモ科		1 388
9	Dutch (nl) Vogelspinnen		1 382
10	Chinese (zh) 捕鳥蛛科		1 237

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tarantula		897
2	German (de) Vogelspinnen		258
3	Dutch (nl) Vogelspinnen		137
4	Italian (it) Theraphosidae		95
5	Russian (ru) Пауки-птицееды		93
6	French (fr) Theraphosidae		86
7	Portuguese (pt) Terafosídeos		72
8	Polish (pl) Ptasznikowate		70
9	Hungarian (hu) Madárpókfélék		67
10	Hebrew (he) פרווניתיים		64

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) رتيلاء		1
2	Catalan (ca) Terafòsids		1
3	German (de) Vogelspinnen		1
4	English (en) Tarantula		1
5	Estonian (et) Linnutapiklased		1
6	Basque (eu) Migale armiarma		1
7	Croatian (hr) Tarantula		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Terafosídeos		1
9	Uzbek (uz) Qushxurlar		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Tarantul		0

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

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