Aenocyon dirus

Quality:

Dire wolf - extinct species of canids (Canidae). This taxon is the 371^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 718^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Aenocyon dirus” in Italian Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 124 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 718^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 371^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 8059^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8445^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6480^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Aenocyon dirus” was edited by 3 authors in Italian Wikipedia (8059^th place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6480^th place).

Since the creation of article “Aenocyon dirus”, its content was written by 78 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1588 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Dire wolf is on the 718^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 371^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 54 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 1142 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #83 in April 2025
• Global: #14 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #90 in April 2025
• Global: #16 in April 2025

There are 39 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) Dire wolf		100
2	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		100
3	Croatian (hr) Canis dirus		81.0797
4	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		76.7182
5	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		67.5227
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Canis dirus		61.9368
7	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		51.8429
8	Turkish (tr) Ulukurt		48.9783
9	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		45.949
10	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		45.0621

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dire wolf		14 816 058
2	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		944 484
3	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		915 357
4	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		757 347
5	Japanese (ja) ダイアウルフ		513 788
6	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		489 603
7	French (fr) Canis dirus		408 621
8	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		372 201
9	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		293 251
10	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		163 925

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) Dire wolf		83 814
2	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		7 166
3	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		6 248
4	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		5 189
5	French (fr) Canis dirus		3 428
6	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		3 223
7	Japanese (ja) ダイアウルフ		3 208
8	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		2 208
9	Swedish (sv) Jättevarg		2 179
10	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		1 727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dire wolf		590
2	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		105
3	French (fr) Canis dirus		97
4	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		89
5	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		78
6	Dutch (nl) Reuzenwolf		59
7	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		54
8	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		52
9	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		46
10	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfarkas		41

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) Dire wolf		9
2	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		3
3	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		3
4	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		2
6	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		2
7	Finnish (fi) Hirviösusi		1
8	French (fr) Canis dirus		1
9	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		1
10	Swedish (sv) Jättevarg		1

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

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