Isbjørn

Quality:

Ursus maritimus - species of bear native largely within the Arctic Circle. This taxon is the 27^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 12^th most popular taxon in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Isbjørn” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 49.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 587^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

no

The 323^rd most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 12^th most popular in taxon in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1812^th most popular in all topics.

The 904^th most popular in AI.

The 27^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 2701^st most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4401^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8196^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Isbjørn”, its content was written by 182 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (323^rd place) and edited by 6602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (904^th place).

Ursus maritimus is on the 12^th place in local ranking of taxon in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 220 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 11814 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #28 in March 2023
• Global: #62 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #144 in February 2020
• Global: #759 in January 2008

There are 54 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	English (en) Polar bear		100
2	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		100
3	Arabic (ar) دب قطبي		100
4	Slovak (sk) Medveď biely		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		99.4692
6	Catalan (ca) Os polar		97.6471
7	Romanian (ro) Urs polar		97.1429
8	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		96.1364
9	Hindi (hi) ध्रुवीय भालू		95
10	Hebrew (he) דוב קוטב		90.4496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polar bear		25 133 223
2	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		5 884 285
3	German (de) Eisbär		5 613 105
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		4 551 430
5	French (fr) Ours blanc		3 449 331
6	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		3 030 737
7	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		2 298 193
8	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź polarny		1 887 987
9	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		1 740 266
10	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		1 446 423

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) Polar bear		77 329
2	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		12 100
3	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		11 907
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		11 758
5	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		10 958
6	German (de) Eisbär		10 691
7	French (fr) Ours blanc		5 637
8	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		5 252
9	Korean (ko) 북극곰		4 890
10	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		4 169

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polar bear		1 589
2	German (de) Eisbär		501
3	French (fr) Ours blanc		438
4	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		279
5	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		241
6	Dutch (nl) IJsbeer		214
7	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		210
8	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		207
9	Norwegian (no) Isbjørn		182
10	Hebrew (he) דוב קוטב		179

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	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		3
2	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		2
3	Hindi (hi) ध्रुवीय भालू		2
4	Simple English (simple) Polar bear		2
5	Slovenian (sl) Severni medved		2
6	Swedish (sv) Isbjörn		2
7	Catalan (ca) Os polar		1
8	English (en) Polar bear		1
9	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		1
10	Persian (fa) خرس قطبی		1

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

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