Panthera leo

Quality:

Lion - species of big cat. This taxon is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 4^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. On Italian Wikipedia article about Lion recently has been very popular. Article “Panthera leo” in Italian Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 299 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 1040^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 583^rd most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 398^th most popular in all topics.

The 326^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

it

The 543^rd most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2888^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1975^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1254^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Panthera leo” was edited by 4 authors in Italian Wikipedia (2888^th place) and written by 57 authors in all languages (1254^th place).

Since the creation of article “Panthera leo”, its content was written by 450 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (583^rd place) and edited by 9282 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (326^th place).

Lion is on the 4^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1559 times in Italian Wikipedia (5531^st place) and cited 32174 times in all languages (5272^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #162 in November 2011
• Global: #66 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #479 in March 2008
• Global: #122 in December 2014

There are 54 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, 2026 (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	Italian (it) Panthera leo		100
2	German (de) Löwe		100
3	Turkish (tr) Aslan		100
4	Romanian (ro) Leu		100
5	Hindi (hi) सिंह (पशु)		100
6	Greek (el) Λιοντάρι		100
7	Catalan (ca) Lleó		100
8	Malay (ms) Singa		100
9	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		99.6525
10	Indonesian (id) Singa		99.5957

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lion		50 447 839
2	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		14 716 103
3	French (fr) Lion		9 751 302
4	German (de) Löwe		7 887 883
5	Russian (ru) Лев		6 424 591
6	Portuguese (pt) Leão		5 597 979
7	Arabic (ar) أسد		5 309 592
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		5 002 022
9	Italian (it) Panthera leo		4 645 784
10	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		3 356 994

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) Lion		101 579
2	Italian (it) Panthera leo		25 910
3	French (fr) Lion		22 670
4	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		17 071
5	Japanese (ja) ライオン		16 436
6	Russian (ru) Лев		15 312
7	German (de) Löwe		15 100
8	Portuguese (pt) Leão		8 337
9	Persian (fa) شیر (گربه‌سان)		6 073
10	Chinese (zh) 狮		5 684

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lion		1 905
2	French (fr) Lion		650
3	German (de) Löwe		464
4	Italian (it) Panthera leo		450
5	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		380
6	Hebrew (he) אריה		365
7	Russian (ru) Лев		350
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		341
9	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		261
10	Dutch (nl) Leeuw (dier)		235

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) Lion		11
2	Japanese (ja) ライオン		5
3	Italian (it) Panthera leo		4
4	Catalan (ca) Lleó		3
5	Korean (ko) 사자		3
6	Russian (ru) Лев		3
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şir		2
8	German (de) Löwe		2
9	Armenian (hy) Առյուծ		2
10	Indonesian (id) Singa		2

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

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