Basilosaurus

Basilosaurus - extinct genus of cetaceans (Cetacea). This taxon is the 2181^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Basilosaurus” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 19.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.04 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Basilosaurus” was edited by 2 authors in Portuguese Wikipedia (6211^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basilosaurus”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 1104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basilosaurus is on the 2181^st place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 844 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #2836 in September 2007
• Global: #3515 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #16045 in January 2026
• Global: #28179 in July 2017

There are 38 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	English (en) Basilosaurus		92.0449
2	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		71.7443
3	Czech (cs) Basilosaurus		62.1064
4	Basque (eu) Basilosaurus		57.9923
5	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		53.8581
6	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		48.8274
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		47.1708
8	Turkish (tr) Basilosaurus		43.6326
9	Slovenian (sl) Basilosaurus		36.3507
10	Tamil (ta) பாசிலோசாரசு		30.822

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Basilosaurus" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		2 354 107
2	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		571 641
3	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		388 293
4	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		347 808
5	German (de) Basilosaurus		333 378
6	French (fr) Basilosaurus		181 780
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		174 953
8	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		159 518
9	Polish (pl) Bazylozaur		87 490
10	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		61 816

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Basilosaurus" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		12 194
2	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		1 573
3	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		1 194
4	German (de) Basilosaurus		1 161
5	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		1 118
6	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		828
7	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		712
8	French (fr) Basilosaurus		579
9	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		279
10	Polish (pl) Bazylozaur		241

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

Language versions of the article "Basilosaurus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		329
2	French (fr) Basilosaurus		86
3	German (de) Basilosaurus		84
4	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		69
5	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		59
6	Dutch (nl) Basilosaurus		56
7	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		44
8	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		38
9	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		28
10	Polish (pl) Bazylozaur		26

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

Language versions of the article "Basilosaurus" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		3
2	Portuguese (pt) Basilosaurus		2
3	Arabic (ar) باسيلوصور		1
4	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		1
5	Basque (eu) Basilosaurus		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Базилозаври		0
7	Czech (cs) Basilosaurus		0
8	German (de) Basilosaurus		0
9	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		0
10	Persian (fa) باسیلوسور		0

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

Language versions of the article "Basilosaurus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Basilosaurus		183
2	Arabic (ar) باسيلوصور		78
3	Chinese (zh) 龍王鯨		51
4	French (fr) Basilosaurus		49
5	Japanese (ja) バシロサウルス		43
6	Italian (it) Basilosaurus		42
7	Turkish (tr) Basilosaurus		40
8	Spanish (es) Basilosaurus		37
9	Russian (ru) Базилозавры		33
10	Catalan (ca) Basilosaure		30

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic باسيلوصور
bg	Bulgarian Базилозаври
ca	Catalan Basilosaure
cs	Czech Basilosaurus
de	German Basilosaurus
en	English Basilosaurus
es	Spanish Basilosaurus
eu	Basque Basilosaurus
fa	Persian باسیلوسور
fi	Finnish Basilosaurus
fr	French Basilosaurus
gl	Galician Basilosauro
he	Hebrew בסילוזאורוס
hr	Croatian Basilosaurus
hu	Hungarian Basilosaurus
id	Indonesian Basilosaurus
it	Italian Basilosaurus
ja	Japanese バシロサウルス
ko	Korean 바실로사우루스
lt	Lithuanian Bazilozaurai
ms	Malay Basilosaurus
nl	Dutch Basilosaurus
no	Norwegian Basilosaurus
pl	Polish Bazylozaur
pt	Portuguese Basilosaurus
ro	Romanian Basilosaurus
ru	Russian Базилозавры
sh	Serbo-Croatian Basilosaurus
simple	Simple English Basilosaurus
sk	Slovak Basilosaurus
sl	Slovenian Basilosaurus
sr	Serbian Basilosaurus
sv	Swedish Basilosaurus
ta	Tamil பாசிலோசாரசு
tr	Turkish Basilosaurus
uk	Ukrainian Базилозавр
vi	Vietnamese Basilosaurus
zh	Chinese 龍王鯨

Best Rank

Portuguese: #16045 01.2026

Global: #28179 07.2017

Best Rank

Portuguese: #2836 09.2007

Global: #3515 07.2019

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