Xiphias gladius

Quality:

Swordfish - fish species. This taxon is the 537^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 440^th most popular taxon in Spanish Wikipedia. Article “Xiphias gladius” in Spanish Wikipedia has 47.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Spanish Wikipedia:

The 440^th most popular in taxon in Spanish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 537^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Xiphias gladius” was edited by 2 authors in Spanish Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Xiphias gladius”, its content was written by 87 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 1970 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Swordfish is on the 440^th place in local ranking of taxon in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 537^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 151 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 5116 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #3249 in February 2023
• Global: #2168 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #3835 in February 2021
• Global: #6316 in October 2012

There are 46 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	English (en) Swordfish		77.0864
2	German (de) Schwertfisch		65.5634
3	Russian (ru) Меч-рыба		60.2353
4	Hebrew (he) דג-חרב		57.75
5	French (fr) Espadon		56.8161
6	Slovenian (sl) Mečarica		51.2662
7	Malay (ms) Todak		50.9688
8	Spanish (es) Xiphias gladius		47.553
9	Finnish (fi) Miekkakala		45.9028
10	Italian (it) Xiphias gladius		43.2066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swordfish		6 591 555
2	Spanish (es) Xiphias gladius		1 737 388
3	German (de) Schwertfisch		1 394 876
4	French (fr) Espadon		1 267 625
5	Italian (it) Xiphias gladius		840 840
6	Russian (ru) Меч-рыба		809 568
7	Japanese (ja) メカジキ		759 214
8	Polish (pl) Włócznik		297 774
9	Dutch (nl) Zwaardvis		279 775
10	Portuguese (pt) Espadarte		260 472

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) Swordfish		26 282
2	French (fr) Espadon		5 773
3	German (de) Schwertfisch		5 730
4	Spanish (es) Xiphias gladius		5 505
5	Italian (it) Xiphias gladius		3 762
6	Russian (ru) Меч-рыба		3 244
7	Japanese (ja) メカジキ		2 578
8	Polish (pl) Włócznik		1 875
9	Portuguese (pt) Espadarte		1 656
10	Chinese (zh) 剑旗鱼		1 386

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Swordfish		540
2	German (de) Schwertfisch		184
3	Italian (it) Xiphias gladius		128
4	French (fr) Espadon		126
5	Spanish (es) Xiphias gladius		87
6	Dutch (nl) Zwaardvis		82
7	Russian (ru) Меч-рыба		77
8	Norwegian (no) Sverdfisk		56
9	Hebrew (he) דג-חרב		55
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cá kiếm		37

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	Spanish (es) Xiphias gladius		2
2	Catalan (ca) Emperador (xífid)		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Риба-меч		1
4	Arabic (ar) أبو سيف (سمكة)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Меч-рыба		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Риба меч		0
7	Czech (cs) Mečoun obecný		0
8	Danish (da) Sværdfisk		0
9	German (de) Schwertfisch		0
10	Greek (el) Ξιφίας		0

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

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