Walvishaai

Quality:

Whale shark - species of fish. This taxon is the 147^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 179^th most popular taxon in Dutch Wikipedia. Article "Walvishaai" in Dutch Wikipedia has 34.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 4551^st most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 3644^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 179^th most popular in taxon in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7147^th most popular in all topics.

The 6227^th most popular in AI.

The 147^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 3885^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6024^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Walvishaai", its content was written by 164 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (3644^th place) and edited by 3112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6227^th place).

Whale shark is on the 179^th place in local ranking of taxon in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 147^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 58 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 3283 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #351 in February 2004
• Global: #548 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #665 in August 2011
• Global: #2237 in February 2012

There are 51 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Whale shark		99.9365
2	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		95.4272
3	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		94.9173
4	Armenian (hy) Կետանման շնաձուկ		92.4375
5	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		90.023
6	Estonian (et) Vaalhai		86.463
7	Hungarian (hu) Cetcápa		84.9902
8	Malay (ms) Yu paus		72.2063
9	Arabic (ar) قرش حوتي		71.0534
10	Simple English (simple) Whale shark		68.4497

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whale shark		12 902 729
2	German (de) Walhai		2 675 972
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		2 548 201
4	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		2 084 987
5	French (fr) Requin-baleine		1 695 976
6	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		1 610 252
7	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		954 358
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		950 746
9	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		872 853
10	Polish (pl) Rekin wielorybi		732 948

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) Whale shark		67 749
2	German (de) Walhai		14 450
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		11 505
4	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		10 874
5	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		10 401
6	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		9 374
7	French (fr) Requin-baleine		7 157
8	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		6 664
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		5 413
10	Polish (pl) Rekin wielorybi		4 344

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whale shark		886
2	German (de) Walhai		225
3	French (fr) Requin-baleine		186
4	Dutch (nl) Walvishaai		164
5	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		129
6	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		123
7	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		102
8	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		96
9	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		93
10	Norwegian (no) Hvalhai		81

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) Whale shark		2
2	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		2
3	Arabic (ar) قرش حوتي		1
4	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		1
5	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Kitovec		1
7	Serbian (sr) Кит ајкула		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Balina köpəkbalığı		0
9	Belarusian (be) Кітовая акула		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Китова акула		0

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

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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 August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information