Australopithecus

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Australopithecus - extinct genus of human ancestors (Hominidae). This taxon is the 245^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 138^th most popular taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “Australopithecus” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 62 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.49 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

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The 6734^th most popular in Portuguese Wikipedia.

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The 5459^th most editable in Portuguese Wikipedia.

The 138^th most popular in taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7499^th most popular in AI.

The 245^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Australopithecus”, its content was written by 129 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia (5459^th place) and edited by 2958 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7499^th place).

Australopithecus is on the 138^th place in local ranking of taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 245^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 250 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 4614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #213 in November 2022
• Global: #1388 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #1827 in March 2009
• Global: #3902 in November 2015

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, 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	Czech (cs) Australopithecus		98.75
2	English (en) Australopithecus		89.5726
3	Portuguese (pt) Australopithecus		66.3555
4	Hungarian (hu) Australopithecus		64.8156
5	Simple English (simple) Australopithecus		64.5752
6	Russian (ru) Австралопитеки		61.8724
7	Croatian (hr) Australopitek		61.4424
8	Catalan (ca) Australopitec		59.8382
9	Armenian (hy) Ավստրալոպիտեկներ		54.0927
10	Hebrew (he) אוסטרלופיתקוס		52.7895

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Australopithecus		7 162 938
2	Spanish (es) Australopithecus		6 549 844
3	Russian (ru) Австралопитеки		2 920 315
4	French (fr) Australopithèque		1 625 946
5	Japanese (ja) アウストラロピテクス		1 424 164
6	Portuguese (pt) Australopithecus		1 389 107
7	Italian (it) Australopithecus		1 307 568
8	German (de) Australopithecus		995 305
9	Polish (pl) Australopitek		972 075
10	Czech (cs) Australopithecus		347 984

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) Australopithecus		23 001
2	Spanish (es) Australopithecus		7 930
3	Russian (ru) Австралопитеки		6 898
4	Japanese (ja) アウストラロピテクス		5 107
5	French (fr) Australopithèque		3 249
6	Italian (it) Australopithecus		2 706
7	German (de) Australopithecus		2 659
8	Polish (pl) Australopitek		2 217
9	Portuguese (pt) Australopithecus		2 206
10	Chinese (zh) 南方古猿		1 259

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Australopithecus		625
2	Spanish (es) Australopithecus		260
3	French (fr) Australopithèque		191
4	German (de) Australopithecus		189
5	Italian (it) Australopithecus		165
6	Russian (ru) Австралопитеки		157
7	Portuguese (pt) Australopithecus		129
8	Dutch (nl) Australopithecus		110
9	Polish (pl) Australopitek		81
10	Hungarian (hu) Australopithecus		72

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) Australopithecus		2
2	Hebrew (he) אוסטרלופיתקוס		2
3	Catalan (ca) Australopitec		1
4	Czech (cs) Australopithecus		1
5	Galician (gl) Australopithecus		1
6	Croatian (hr) Australopitek		1
7	Japanese (ja) アウストラロピテクス		1
8	Arabic (ar) قرد جنوبي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Avstralopitek		0
10	Belarusian (be) Аўстралапітэкі		0

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

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