Erinaceus europaeus

Quality:

Western European hedgehog - species of hedgehog found in northern and western Europe. This taxon is the 540^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 88^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Erinaceus europaeus” in Italian Wikipedia has 29.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.55 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 8491^st most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

The 88^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 540^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7294^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Erinaceus europaeus” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Erinaceus europaeus”, its content was written by 155 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2454 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Western European hedgehog is on the 88^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 540^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 328 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3193 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1134 in November 2009
• Global: #1968 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #3190 in June 2020
• Global: #8537 in May 2020

There are 42 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	Finnish (fi) Siili		100
2	German (de) Braunbrustigel		92.7754
3	Swedish (sv) Igelkott		90.2844
4	English (en) European hedgehog		81.4519
5	Dutch (nl) Egel		78.6785
6	Estonian (et) Siil		71.1764
7	French (fr) Erinaceus europaeus		62.1438
8	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный ёж		59.6279
9	Slovak (sk) Jež tmavý		57.9851
10	Portuguese (pt) Ouriço-terrestre		52.3826

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный ёж		3 747 499
2	English (en) European hedgehog		1 466 286
3	Italian (it) Erinaceus europaeus		1 446 934
4	Polish (pl) Jeż zachodni		1 285 260
5	Dutch (nl) Egel		1 147 741
6	Swedish (sv) Igelkott		1 115 398
7	Finnish (fi) Siili		996 976
8	German (de) Braunbrustigel		907 607
9	French (fr) Erinaceus europaeus		741 417
10	Portuguese (pt) Ouriço-terrestre		711 734

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный ёж		15 951
2	English (en) European hedgehog		8 968
3	Italian (it) Erinaceus europaeus		6 628
4	Finnish (fi) Siili		4 512
5	Swedish (sv) Igelkott		4 136
6	German (de) Braunbrustigel		3 195
7	French (fr) Erinaceus europaeus		3 178
8	Portuguese (pt) Ouriço-terrestre		2 997
9	Dutch (nl) Egel		2 376
10	Spanish (es) Erinaceus europaeus		1 939

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Braunbrustigel		253
2	Dutch (nl) Egel		240
3	French (fr) Erinaceus europaeus		218
4	English (en) European hedgehog		213
5	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный ёж		205
6	Finnish (fi) Siili		162
7	Swedish (sv) Igelkott		158
8	Italian (it) Erinaceus europaeus		155
9	Polish (pl) Jeż zachodni		85
10	Spanish (es) Erinaceus europaeus		75

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	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный ёж		4
2	English (en) European hedgehog		3
3	German (de) Braunbrustigel		2
4	Hebrew (he) קיפוד אירופי		2
5	Armenian (hy) Սովորական ոզնի		2
6	Finnish (fi) Siili		1
7	French (fr) Erinaceus europaeus		1
8	Italian (it) Erinaceus europaeus		1
9	Arabic (ar) قنفذ أوروبي		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Adi kirpi		0

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

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