Columba livia

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Rock Dove - species of pigeon; the wild bird from which domesticated pigeons derive. This taxon is the 618^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 225^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Columba livia” in Italian Wikipedia has 43.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.29 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 3670^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

The 225^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9219^th most popular in AI.

The 618^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Columba livia” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Columba livia”, its content was written by 232 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (3670^th place) and edited by 2632 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9219^th place).

Rock Dove is on the 225^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 618^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 264 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 4712 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #86 in July 2020
• Global: #803 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1240 in July 2020
• Global: #11111 in May 2022

There are 52 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	Ukrainian (uk) Голуб сизий		97.2436
2	English (en) Rock dove		91.4377
3	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		84.1709
4	Swedish (sv) Klippduva		79.0294
5	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		71.1791
6	Spanish (es) Columba livia		68.306
7	Catalan (ca) Colom (ocell)		63.6603
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		53.6111
9	Esperanto (eo) Kolombo		49.8735
10	Malay (ms) Merpati biasa		49.0732

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock dove		4 686 907
2	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		1 733 392
3	Italian (it) Columba livia		980 850
4	Spanish (es) Columba livia		949 052
5	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		885 059
6	French (fr) Pigeon biset		819 684
7	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		720 482
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		651 743
9	Romanian (ro) Porumbel		356 737
10	Persian (fa) کبوتر چاهی		337 109

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) Rock dove		35 173
2	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		9 587
3	Spanish (es) Columba livia		5 995
4	French (fr) Pigeon biset		5 697
5	Italian (it) Columba livia		5 271
6	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		4 860
7	German (de) Felsentaube		3 639
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		2 688
9	Chinese (zh) 原鸽		2 150
10	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		1 857

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rock dove		487
2	Italian (it) Columba livia		232
3	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		205
4	French (fr) Pigeon biset		203
5	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		101
6	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		98
7	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		89
8	Spanish (es) Columba livia		84
9	German (de) Felsentaube		80
10	Dutch (nl) Rotsduif		79

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	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		4
2	English (en) Rock dove		2
3	Italian (it) Columba livia		2
4	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		2
5	Esperanto (eo) Kolombo		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kalliokyyhky		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Skalni golob		1
8	Arabic (ar) حمام طوراني		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Çöl göyərçini		0
10	Belarusian (be) Шызы голуб		0

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

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