Whale Rider

Quality:

Whale Rider - 2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro. This film is the 6122^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 380^th most popular film in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Whale Rider” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 5 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:

The 380^th most popular in films in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6122^nd most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 6187^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Whale Rider” was edited by 1 authors in Norwegian Wikipedia (6187^th place) and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Whale Rider”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Whale Rider is on the 380^th place in local ranking of films in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 6122^nd place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 937 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #855 in May 2018
• Global: #6635 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #4102 in March 2009
• Global: #52225 in September 2020

There are 26 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) Whale Rider		54.9087
2	Polish (pl) Jeździec wielorybów		35.5217
3	Arabic (ar) المتسابق الحوت		28.6499
4	Norwegian (no) Whale Rider		27.9501
5	Chinese (zh) 鲸骑士		24.7147
6	German (de) Whale Rider		24.2838
7	Portuguese (pt) Whale Rider		20.3754
8	Indonesian (id) Whale Rider		20.1972
9	Hebrew (he) לרכב על הלווייתן		19.0867
10	Catalan (ca) Whale Rider		17.9607

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whale Rider		2 800 357
2	German (de) Whale Rider		250 940
3	Spanish (es) Whale Rider		147 218
4	Italian (it) La ragazza delle balene		145 722
5	Japanese (ja) クジラの島の少女		113 672
6	French (fr) Paï : L'Élue d'un peuple nouveau		78 552
7	Russian (ru) Оседлавший кита		54 805
8	Norwegian (no) Whale Rider		51 912
9	Chinese (zh) 鲸骑士		45 214
10	Portuguese (pt) Whale Rider		36 903

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 Rider		10 728
2	Japanese (ja) クジラの島の少女		1 189
3	German (de) Whale Rider		614
4	Spanish (es) Whale Rider		264
5	French (fr) Paï : L'Élue d'un peuple nouveau		260
6	Italian (it) La ragazza delle balene		255
7	Chinese (zh) 鲸骑士		226
8	Russian (ru) Оседлавший кита		208
9	Dutch (nl) Whale Rider		77
10	Hebrew (he) לרכב על הלווייתן		75

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whale Rider		329
2	German (de) Whale Rider		67
3	Italian (it) La ragazza delle balene		47
4	Dutch (nl) Whale Rider		38
5	Hebrew (he) לרכב על הלווייתן		35
6	Norwegian (no) Whale Rider		29
7	French (fr) Paï : L'Élue d'un peuple nouveau		27
8	Russian (ru) Оседлавший кита		27
9	Hungarian (hu) A bálnalovas (film)		25
10	Polish (pl) Jeździec wielorybów		19

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) Whale Rider		1
2	Galician (gl) Whale Rider		1
3	Italian (it) La ragazza delle balene		1
4	Norwegian (no) Whale Rider		1
5	Arabic (ar) المتسابق الحوت		0
6	Catalan (ca) Whale Rider		0
7	English (en) Whale Rider		0
8	Spanish (es) Whale Rider		0
9	Basque (eu) Whale Rider		0
10	Persian (fa) سوارکار نهنگ		0

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

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