Aalscholver

Quality:

Great Cormorant - species of bird. This taxon is the 1119^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 283^rd most popular taxon in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “Aalscholver” in Dutch Wikipedia has 54.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

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The 6860^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

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The 4918^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 283^rd most popular in taxon in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1119^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

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The 4291^st most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Aalscholver”, its content was written by 147 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (4918^th place) and edited by 1992 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Great Cormorant is on the 283^rd place in local ranking of taxon in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 1119^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 222 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 4373 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #103 in January 2003
• Global: #1166 in March 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #1927 in February 2021
• Global: #18052 in February 2026

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, 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	German (de) Kormoran (Art)		96.2904
2	Swedish (sv) Storskarv		93.1189
3	English (en) Great cormorant		75.8159
4	Estonian (et) Kormoran		74.6786
5	French (fr) Grand Cormoran		72.3425
6	Esperanto (eo) Granda kormorano		70.3324
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Storskarv		60.0586
8	Slovak (sk) Kormorán veľký		57.0814
9	Dutch (nl) Aalscholver		54.9179
10	Norwegian (no) Storskarv		52.848

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kormoran (Art)		1 722 095
2	English (en) Great cormorant		1 401 206
3	Polish (pl) Kormoran (zwyczajny)		812 916
4	Japanese (ja) カワウ		717 694
5	Italian (it) Phalacrocorax carbo		591 008
6	Dutch (nl) Aalscholver		559 394
7	Russian (ru) Большой баклан		518 709
8	French (fr) Grand Cormoran		501 173
9	Swedish (sv) Storskarv		378 391
10	Finnish (fi) Merimetso		310 119

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) Great cormorant		7 869
2	German (de) Kormoran (Art)		7 743
3	Japanese (ja) カワウ		3 667
4	Russian (ru) Большой баклан		3 140
5	Polish (pl) Kormoran (zwyczajny)		2 717
6	Italian (it) Phalacrocorax carbo		2 454
7	Dutch (nl) Aalscholver		2 338
8	Finnish (fi) Merimetso		2 073
9	French (fr) Grand Cormoran		1 812
10	Swedish (sv) Storskarv		1 673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kormoran (Art)		251
2	English (en) Great cormorant		227
3	Dutch (nl) Aalscholver		147
4	French (fr) Grand Cormoran		126
5	Italian (it) Phalacrocorax carbo		107
6	Russian (ru) Большой баклан		76
7	Danish (da) Skarv		74
8	Finnish (fi) Merimetso		67
9	Japanese (ja) カワウ		62
10	Polish (pl) Kormoran (zwyczajny)		57

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	French (fr) Grand Cormoran		2
2	Italian (it) Phalacrocorax carbo		2
3	Arabic (ar) غاق كبير		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Böyük qarabatdaq		1
5	Catalan (ca) Corb marí gros		1
6	Greek (el) Κορμοράνος		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Granda kormorano		1
8	Polish (pl) Kormoran (zwyczajny)		1
9	Turkish (tr) Karabatak		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Harom qoravoy		1

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

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