Ratel

Quality:

Honey badger - species of mammal. This taxon is the 170^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 545^th most popular taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “Ratel” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.33 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

The 545^th most popular in taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7935^th most popular in all topics.

The 170^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5761^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ratel”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 2052 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Honey badger is on the 545^th place in local ranking of taxon in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 170^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 152 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 5280 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #293 in December 2014
• Global: #2990 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #850 in April 2015
• Global: #756 in March 2018

There are 49 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) Honey badger		93.5712
2	Turkish (tr) Bal porsuğu		79.8767
3	Slovenian (sl) Medarski jazbec		65.5864
4	Simple English (simple) Honey badger		64.9598
5	Arabic (ar) غرير العسل		53.3559
6	Galician (gl) Ratel		51.3413
7	French (fr) Ratel		50.9242
8	Czech (cs) Medojed kapský		49.0685
9	Hebrew (he) גירית הדבש		48.8305
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lửng mật		48.1615

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honey badger		15 834 791
2	Russian (ru) Медоед		2 600 101
3	Japanese (ja) ラーテル		2 104 624
4	French (fr) Ratel		1 726 425
5	German (de) Honigdachs		1 441 867
6	Spanish (es) Mellivora capensis		979 728
7	Arabic (ar) غرير العسل		860 033
8	Chinese (zh) 蜜獾		715 529
9	Italian (it) Mellivora capensis		633 815
10	Polish (pl) Ratel miodożerny		589 637

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) Honey badger		73 084
2	German (de) Honigdachs		11 694
3	Russian (ru) Медоед		11 287
4	French (fr) Ratel		11 067
5	Japanese (ja) ラーテル		7 407
6	Spanish (es) Mellivora capensis		6 537
7	Chinese (zh) 蜜獾		5 921
8	Italian (it) Mellivora capensis		4 544
9	Polish (pl) Ratel miodożerny		4 026
10	Arabic (ar) غرير العسل		2 983

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Honey badger		622
2	French (fr) Ratel		161
3	German (de) Honigdachs		116
4	Russian (ru) Медоед		112
5	Hebrew (he) גירית הדבש		97
6	Italian (it) Mellivora capensis		94
7	Dutch (nl) Honingdas		69
8	Spanish (es) Mellivora capensis		55
9	Portuguese (pt) Ratel		54
10	Japanese (ja) ラーテル		53

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) Honey badger		4
2	Italian (it) Mellivora capensis		2
3	Chinese (zh) 蜜獾		2
4	Spanish (es) Mellivora capensis		1
5	Galician (gl) Ratel		1
6	Polish (pl) Ratel miodożerny		1
7	Arabic (ar) غرير العسل		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Bal porsuğu		0
9	Belarusian (be) Медаед		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Меден язовец		0

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

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