Mucca sferica

Spherical cow - character of a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena. Article “Mucca sferica” in Italian Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Mucca sferica”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 317 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 99 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1037 in July 2020
• Global: #15870 in August 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #100207 in May 2022
• Global: #46761 in September 2015

There are 19 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) Spherical cow		36.4387
2	Thai (th) วัวทรงกลม		32.2367
3	Basque (eu) Behi esferiko		31.8583
4	Vietnamese (vi) Con bò hình cầu		29.492
5	Portuguese (pt) Vaca esférica		28.6888
6	Dutch (nl) Bolvormige koe		28.0332
7	Chinese (zh) 球形奶牛		27.9731
8	Ukrainian (uk) Сферична корова		27.2989
9	Catalan (ca) Vaca esfèrica		27.191
10	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		26.7425

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mucca sferica" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spherical cow		1 802 365
2	Spanish (es) Vaca esférica		86 846
3	Japanese (ja) 球形の牛		58 871
4	Chinese (zh) 球形奶牛		31 802
5	French (fr) Vache sphérique		26 380
6	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		9 619
7	Arabic (ar) بقرة كروية		5 361
8	Persian (fa) گاو کروی		4 742
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сферична корова		4 467
10	Simple English (simple) Spherical cow		3 200

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mucca sferica" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spherical cow		8 994
2	Spanish (es) Vaca esférica		393
3	Japanese (ja) 球形の牛		342
4	Chinese (zh) 球形奶牛		236
5	German (de) Sphärische Kuh		129
6	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		94
7	Simple English (simple) Spherical cow		77
8	Portuguese (pt) Vaca esférica		71
9	French (fr) Vache sphérique		64
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сферична корова		37

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Mucca sferica" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spherical cow		167
2	Spanish (es) Vaca esférica		23
3	French (fr) Vache sphérique		21
4	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		19
5	Chinese (zh) 球形奶牛		17
6	German (de) Sphärische Kuh		13
7	Dutch (nl) Bolvormige koe		10
8	Japanese (ja) 球形の牛		8
9	Thai (th) วัวทรงกลม		7
10	Arabic (ar) بقرة كروية		6

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Mucca sferica" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) بقرة كروية		0
2	Catalan (ca) Vaca esfèrica		0
3	German (de) Sphärische Kuh		0
4	English (en) Spherical cow		0
5	Spanish (es) Vaca esférica		0
6	Basque (eu) Behi esferiko		0
7	Persian (fa) گاو کروی		0
8	French (fr) Vache sphérique		0
9	Indonesian (id) Sapi bulat		0
10	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Mucca sferica" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Vache sphérique		35
2	English (en) Spherical cow		27
3	Chinese (zh) 球形奶牛		8
4	Spanish (es) Vaca esférica		5
5	Japanese (ja) 球形の牛		5
6	Arabic (ar) بقرة كروية		4
7	Persian (fa) گاو کروی		4
8	German (de) Sphärische Kuh		3
9	Italian (it) Mucca sferica		3
10	Norwegian (no) Sfærisk ku		2

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بقرة كروية
ca	Catalan Vaca esfèrica
de	German Sphärische Kuh
en	English Spherical cow
es	Spanish Vaca esférica
eu	Basque Behi esferiko
fa	Persian گاو کروی
fr	French Vache sphérique
id	Indonesian Sapi bulat
it	Italian Mucca sferica
ja	Japanese 球形の牛
nl	Dutch Bolvormige koe
no	Norwegian Sfærisk ku
pt	Portuguese Vaca esférica
simple	Simple English Spherical cow
th	Thai วัวทรงกลม
uk	Ukrainian Сферична корова
vi	Vietnamese Con bò hình cầu
zh	Chinese 球形奶牛

Best Rank

Italian: #100207 05.2022

Global: #46761 09.2015

Best Rank

Italian: #1037 07.2020

Global: #15870 08.2023

On 10 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ilia Malinin, Bad Bunny, 2026 Winter Olympics, Epstein files, Jutta Leerdam, Jake Paul, Puerto Rico, Little Saint James.

In Italian Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Abdon Pamich, Arianna Fontana, Ilia Malinin, Massacri delle foibe, Jeffrey Epstein, Stefania Constantini, Curling, Amos Mosaner, Patrizia De Blanck, Bad Bunny.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information