Fossa

Quality:

Fossa - cat-like, carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar. This taxon is the 885^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Fossa” in Finnish Wikipedia has 32.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 885^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Fossa”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 1604 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fossa is on the 885^th place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 4072 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #191 in June 2005
• Global: #1583 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #5697 in June 2022
• Global: #7802 in August 2019

There are 44 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	English (en) Fossa (animal)		100
2	Greek (el) Φόσα		88.9201
3	Hebrew (he) פוסה		83.7381
4	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		78.4405
5	Vietnamese (vi) Fossa		78.1842
6	Catalan (ca) Fossa (carnívor)		72.0286
7	Slovenian (sl) Fosa		62.733
8	Malay (ms) Fosa		62.3971
9	German (de) Fossa		61.9784
10	Turkish (tr) Cryptoprocta ferox		56.2545

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fossa (animal)		5 615 616
2	German (de) Fossa		1 106 504
3	Russian (ru) Фосса		1 087 308
4	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		797 974
5	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		582 909
6	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		413 492
7	Polish (pl) Fossa madagaskarska		387 812
8	Japanese (ja) フォッサ		276 374
9	Portuguese (pt) Fossa (animal)		248 023
10	Czech (cs) Fosa		178 509

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) Fossa (animal)		24 768
2	Russian (ru) Фосса		5 848
3	German (de) Fossa		4 087
4	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		4 067
5	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		2 464
6	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		2 104
7	Polish (pl) Fossa madagaskarska		1 481
8	Swedish (sv) Fossa		1 478
9	Portuguese (pt) Fossa (animal)		1 168
10	Czech (cs) Fosa		950

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fossa (animal)		374
2	German (de) Fossa		146
3	French (fr) Fossa (animal)		126
4	Italian (it) Cryptoprocta ferox		87
5	Greek (el) Φόσα		85
6	Russian (ru) Фосса		67
7	Dutch (nl) Fretkat		64
8	Hebrew (he) פוסה		59
9	Hungarian (hu) Fossza		48
10	Spanish (es) Cryptoprocta ferox		43

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) Fossa (animal)		2
2	Russian (ru) Фосса		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Cryptoprocta ferox		1
4	Catalan (ca) Fossa (carnívor)		1
5	German (de) Fossa		1
6	English (en) Fossa (animal)		1
7	Turkish (tr) Cryptoprocta ferox		1
8	Arabic (ar) فوسا (حيوان)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Фоса		0
10	Czech (cs) Fosa		0

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

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