On the Origin of Species

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On the Origin of Species - treatise on natural selection, written by Charles Darwin. This book is the 177^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 28^th most popular book in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “On the Origin of Species” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 62.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 2704^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 3606^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 28^th most popular in books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7568^th most popular in AI.

The 177^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 197^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “On the Origin of Species”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (3606^th place) and edited by 2898 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7568^th place).

On the Origin of Species is on the 28^th place in local ranking of books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 177^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 7178 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #121 in April 2021
• Global: #32 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #197 in June 2025
• Global: #2884 in February 2009

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 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	Slovak (sk) O pôvode druhov		100
2	Czech (cs) O původu druhů		98.6667
3	Portuguese (pt) A Origem das Espécies		97.0799
4	English (en) On the Origin of Species		96.2432
5	Basque (eu) Espezieen jatorriaz		95.258
6	Arabic (ar) أصل الأنواع		93.4746
7	Urdu (ur) اصل الانواع		92.3077
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nguồn gốc các loài		62.5659
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) On the Origin of Species		62.1547
10	Hebrew (he) מוצא המינים		61.7504

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) On the Origin of Species		8 907 700
2	Spanish (es) El origen de las especies		5 579 122
3	Portuguese (pt) A Origem das Espécies		1 352 328
4	Italian (it) L'origine delle specie		1 310 740
5	Japanese (ja) 種の起源		617 078
6	French (fr) L'Origine des espèces		584 530
7	Russian (ru) Происхождение видов		579 090
8	German (de) Über die Entstehung der Arten		526 693
9	Chinese (zh) 物种起源		357 996
10	Arabic (ar) أصل الأنواع		310 024

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) On the Origin of Species		24 164
2	Spanish (es) El origen de las especies		5 841
3	Italian (it) L'origine delle specie		2 335
4	Portuguese (pt) A Origem das Espécies		2 038
5	Japanese (ja) 種の起源		1 997
6	Russian (ru) Происхождение видов		1 638
7	French (fr) L'Origine des espèces		1 377
8	Chinese (zh) 物种起源		1 212
9	German (de) Über die Entstehung der Arten		991
10	Simple English (simple) On the Origin of Species		848

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) On the Origin of Species		792
2	Spanish (es) El origen de las especies		196
3	Italian (it) L'origine delle specie		182
4	French (fr) L'Origine des espèces		167
5	German (de) Über die Entstehung der Arten		123
6	Dutch (nl) De oorsprong der soorten		102
7	Portuguese (pt) A Origem das Espécies		86
8	Russian (ru) Происхождение видов		84
9	Hebrew (he) מוצא המינים		83
10	Norwegian (no) Artenes opprinnelse		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) On the Origin of Species		5
2	Spanish (es) El origen de las especies		1
3	Italian (it) L'origine delle specie		1
4	Arabic (ar) أصل الأنواع		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Növlərin mənşəyi		0
6	Belarusian (be) Паходжанне відаў		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Произход на видовете		0
8	Catalan (ca) L'origen de les espècies		0
9	Czech (cs) O původu druhů		0
10	Danish (da) Arternes Oprindelse		0

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

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