Homo erectus

Quality:

Homo erectus - species of archaic humans believed to be extinct in a pure form. This taxon is the 113^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 195^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Homo erectus” in Italian Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 9 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 195^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5702^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4471^st most popular in AI.

The 113^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9557^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Homo erectus” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Homo erectus”, its content was written by 139 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 3731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4471^st place).

Homo erectus is on the 195^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 113^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 221 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 6699 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1305 in October 2024
• Global: #827 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #4132 in March 2009
• Global: #2664 in September 2011

There are 53 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) Homo erectus		97.9287
2	Croatian (hr) Homo erectus		96.4706
3	Turkish (tr) Homo erectus		96.0426
4	German (de) Homo erectus		94.7619
5	Portuguese (pt) Homo erectus		91.8611
6	Hebrew (he) הומו ארקטוס		81.4656
7	Romanian (ro) Homo erectus		77.429
8	Dutch (nl) Homo erectus		76.3478
9	Thai (th) โฮโมอิเร็กตัส		68.8149
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Homo erectus		64.8008

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Homo erectus		14 324 487
2	Spanish (es) Homo erectus		6 623 912
3	Russian (ru) Человек прямоходящий		2 486 133
4	German (de) Homo erectus		2 344 713
5	French (fr) Homo erectus		1 378 667
6	Portuguese (pt) Homo erectus		1 359 327
7	Japanese (ja) ホモ・エレクトス		1 125 102
8	Polish (pl) Homo erectus		1 089 079
9	Italian (it) Homo erectus		1 037 439
10	Indonesian (id) Homo erectus		699 602

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) Homo erectus		53 263
2	Russian (ru) Человек прямоходящий		10 272
3	Spanish (es) Homo erectus		8 691
4	German (de) Homo erectus		7 504
5	Japanese (ja) ホモ・エレクトス		6 588
6	French (fr) Homo erectus		3 459
7	Chinese (zh) 直立人		3 262
8	Polish (pl) Homo erectus		2 889
9	Portuguese (pt) Homo erectus		2 686
10	Italian (it) Homo erectus		2 370

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Homo erectus		1 115
2	German (de) Homo erectus		257
3	Spanish (es) Homo erectus		254
4	French (fr) Homo erectus		220
5	Italian (it) Homo erectus		139
6	Dutch (nl) Homo erectus		134
7	Russian (ru) Человек прямоходящий		133
8	Hebrew (he) הומו ארקטוס		110
9	Portuguese (pt) Homo erectus		103
10	Polish (pl) Homo erectus		95

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) Homo erectus		6
2	Italian (it) Homo erectus		2
3	Catalan (ca) Homo erectus		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Homo erectus		1
5	Chinese (zh) 直立人		1
6	Arabic (ar) إنسان منتصب		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Erektus		0
8	Belarusian (be) Homo erectus		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Изправен човек		0
10	Czech (cs) Člověk vzpřímený		0

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

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