Merel

Quality:

Common Blackbird - species of thrush. This taxon is the 232^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 25^th most popular taxon in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “Merel” in Dutch Wikipedia has 55.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 16 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:

nl

The 1059^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 2673^rd most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 25^th most popular in taxon in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9939^th most popular in all topics.

The 7299^th most popular in AI.

The 232^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 141^st most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3417^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Merel” was edited by 1 authors in Dutch Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Merel”, its content was written by 191 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (2673^rd place) and edited by 2953 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7299^th place).

Common Blackbird is on the 25^th place in local ranking of taxon in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 232^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 147 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 4915 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #227 in April 2003
• Global: #674 in August 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #75 in June 2023
• Global: #1338 in May 2020

There are 49 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	German (de) Amsel		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Melro-preto		100
3	English (en) Common blackbird		97.7882
4	Polish (pl) Kos (ptak)		97.7294
5	Russian (ru) Чёрный дрозд		95.0566
6	French (fr) Merle noir		92.3998
7	Swedish (sv) Koltrast		84.844
8	Hungarian (hu) Fekete rigó		79.4877
9	Chinese (zh) 欧乌鸫		75.4611
10	Slovak (sk) Drozd čierny		61.2131

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Amsel		6 319 170
2	English (en) Common blackbird		4 381 507
3	Polish (pl) Kos (ptak)		1 895 684
4	French (fr) Merle noir		1 874 469
5	Spanish (es) Turdus merula		1 506 283
6	Dutch (nl) Merel		1 416 343
7	Russian (ru) Чёрный дрозд		1 074 007
8	Italian (it) Turdus merula		1 035 918
9	Swedish (sv) Koltrast		986 231
10	Finnish (fi) Mustarastas		854 771

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) Common blackbird		36 130
2	German (de) Amsel		35 040
3	Polish (pl) Kos (ptak)		22 898
4	Russian (ru) Чёрный дрозд		15 336
5	Dutch (nl) Merel		15 251
6	Spanish (es) Turdus merula		12 093
7	Finnish (fi) Mustarastas		10 831
8	French (fr) Merle noir		10 810
9	Italian (it) Turdus merula		9 691
10	Czech (cs) Kos černý		7 390

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Amsel		457
2	English (en) Common blackbird		424
3	French (fr) Merle noir		196
4	Dutch (nl) Merel		191
5	Italian (it) Turdus merula		119
6	Polish (pl) Kos (ptak)		104
7	Hungarian (hu) Fekete rigó		94
8	Russian (ru) Чёрный дрозд		90
9	Danish (da) Solsort		86
10	Spanish (es) Turdus merula		85

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	German (de) Amsel		4
2	Russian (ru) Чёрный дрозд		2
3	Arabic (ar) شحرور		1
4	English (en) Common blackbird		1
5	Estonian (et) Musträstas		1
6	French (fr) Merle noir		1
7	Italian (it) Turdus merula		1
8	Dutch (nl) Merel		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Melro-preto		1
10	Turkish (tr) Karatavuk		1

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

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