Basilisco

Quality:

Basilisk - legendary reptile in European mythology. Article “Basilisco” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 47.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.5 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Basilisco”, its content was written by 68 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 2058 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 2750 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #2146 in March 2009
• Global: #1656 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #3700 in July 2011
• Global: #8157 in February 2008

There are 45 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	Russian (ru) Василиск		72.3294
2	German (de) Basilisk (Mythologie)		64.8501
3	Uzbek (uz) Vasilisk		55.7727
4	English (en) Basilisk		55.7486
5	Belarusian (be) Васіліск		49.9982
6	French (fr) Basilic (mythologie)		48.3465
7	Portuguese (pt) Basilisco		47.5185
8	Dutch (nl) Basilisk (fabeldier)		45.0385
9	Italian (it) Basilisco (mitologia)		41.7808
10	Japanese (ja) バジリスク		35.3568

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basilisk		7 230 511
2	Japanese (ja) バジリスク		1 910 813
3	Russian (ru) Василиск		1 767 776
4	Spanish (es) Basilisco (criatura mitológica)		1 737 671
5	German (de) Basilisk (Mythologie)		1 381 861
6	French (fr) Basilic (mythologie)		942 843
7	Italian (it) Basilisco (mitologia)		877 167
8	Polish (pl) Bazyliszek (stworzenie mityczne)		870 690
9	Portuguese (pt) Basilisco		838 239
10	Dutch (nl) Basilisk (fabeldier)		223 212

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) Basilisk		53 329
2	French (fr) Basilic (mythologie)		3 445
3	Japanese (ja) バジリスク		3 394
4	Russian (ru) Василиск		3 329
5	German (de) Basilisk (Mythologie)		2 906
6	Spanish (es) Basilisco (criatura mitológica)		2 651
7	Polish (pl) Bazyliszek (stworzenie mityczne)		1 463
8	Italian (it) Basilisco (mitologia)		1 422
9	Portuguese (pt) Basilisco		1 046
10	Persian (fa) باسیلیسک		729

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basilisk		453
2	German (de) Basilisk (Mythologie)		216
3	French (fr) Basilic (mythologie)		152
4	Italian (it) Basilisco (mitologia)		112
5	Russian (ru) Василиск		112
6	Spanish (es) Basilisco (criatura mitológica)		109
7	Polish (pl) Bazyliszek (stworzenie mityczne)		94
8	Dutch (nl) Basilisk (fabeldier)		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Basilisco		68
10	Hebrew (he) בסיליסק		58

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) Basilisk		2
2	Arabic (ar) باسليق		1
3	French (fr) Basilic (mythologie)		1
4	Italian (it) Basilisco (mitologia)		1
5	Chinese (zh) 巴西利斯克		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Basillisk		0
7	Belarusian (be) Васіліск		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Василиск (митология)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Basilisc		0
10	Czech (cs) Bazilišek		0

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

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