Elg

Quality:

Alces alces - species of mammal. This taxon is the 127^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 4^th most popular taxon in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Elg” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 14 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:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 327^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

no

The 256^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 6337^th most popular in all topics.

The 3116^th most popular in AI.

The 127^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 1341^st most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6503^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9648^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Elg”, its content was written by 157 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (256^th place) and edited by 4456 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3116^th place).

Alces alces is on the 4^th place in local ranking of taxon in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 127^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 347 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 12103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #13 in September 2019
• Global: #355 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #107 in October 2011
• Global: #201 in October 2014

There are 52 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) Elch		95.6675
2	English (en) Moose		94.523
3	Belarusian (be) Лось		93.6211
4	Turkish (tr) Sığın		89.1806
5	Estonian (et) Põder		75.0984
6	Thai (th) กวางมูส		73.3323
7	Finnish (fi) Hirvi		71.5792
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nai sừng tấm Á-Âu		71.1179
9	Slovak (sk) Los (rod)		66.1024
10	Polish (pl) Łoś euroazjatycki		65.2636

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moose		19 521 485
2	German (de) Elch		3 428 520
3	Spanish (es) Alces alces		1 760 808
4	Japanese (ja) ヘラジカ		1 663 957
5	Finnish (fi) Hirvi		1 202 323
6	Italian (it) Alces alces		1 071 944
7	Polish (pl) Łoś euroazjatycki		996 406
8	Norwegian (no) Elg		789 970
9	Dutch (nl) Eland		728 992
10	Portuguese (pt) Alce		661 582

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) Moose		69 089
2	German (de) Elch		10 829
3	Spanish (es) Alces alces		7 520
4	Japanese (ja) ヘラジカ		5 918
5	Polish (pl) Łoś euroazjatycki		4 579
6	Italian (it) Alces alces		4 054
7	Chinese (zh) 駝鹿		3 892
8	Portuguese (pt) Alce		2 502
9	Dutch (nl) Eland		2 377
10	French (fr) Alces alces		2 222

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moose		1 690
2	German (de) Elch		443
3	Finnish (fi) Hirvi		193
4	Dutch (nl) Eland		185
5	Norwegian (no) Elg		157
6	Italian (it) Alces alces		154
7	Simple English (simple) Moose		143
8	Polish (pl) Łoś euroazjatycki		129
9	Danish (da) Elg		109
10	Spanish (es) Alces alces		103

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) Elch		5
2	English (en) Moose		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sığın		1
4	Belarusian (be) Лось		1
5	Catalan (ca) Ant		1
6	Czech (cs) Los evropský		1
7	Finnish (fi) Hirvi		1
8	French (fr) Alces alces		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Jávorszarvas		1
10	Italian (it) Alces alces		1

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

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