Orcinus orca

Quality:

Orcinus orca - species in the oceanic dolphin family. This taxon is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 180^th most popular taxon in Romanian Wikipedia. Article “Orcinus orca” in Romanian Wikipedia has 8.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.44 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 4467^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia.

The 180^th most popular in taxon in Romanian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1409^th most popular in all topics.

The 1552^nd most popular in AI.

The 17^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Romanian Wikipedia:

ro

The 2237^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1696^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4408^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Orcinus orca”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia and edited by 5485 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1552^nd place).

Orcinus orca is on the 180^th place in local ranking of taxon in Romanian Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 9163 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #167 in February 2009
• Global: #118 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #189 in July 2019
• Global: #226 in September 2014

There are 53 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	German (de) Schwertwal		100
2	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		100
3	Persian (fa) نهنگ قاتل		100
4	English (en) Orca		97.8408
5	Japanese (ja) シャチ		97.5358
6	Korean (ko) 범고래		84.1548
7	Hebrew (he) קטלן		78.858
8	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		76.6886
9	Polish (pl) Orka oceaniczna		75.1816
10	French (fr) Orque		68.4894

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orca		33 202 483
2	Japanese (ja) シャチ		5 961 575
3	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		5 723 427
4	German (de) Schwertwal		5 616 503
5	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		4 942 430
6	French (fr) Orque		4 111 521
7	Portuguese (pt) Orca		2 114 889
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		1 948 621
9	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		1 910 968
10	Dutch (nl) Orka		1 325 549

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) Orca		129 267
2	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		27 063
3	Japanese (ja) シャチ		26 221
4	German (de) Schwertwal		21 326
5	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		18 908
6	French (fr) Orque		13 027
7	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		11 730
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		9 338
9	Portuguese (pt) Orca		8 564
10	Turkish (tr) Katil balina		6 473

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orca		1 564
2	French (fr) Orque		409
3	German (de) Schwertwal		408
4	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		249
5	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		235
6	Dutch (nl) Orka		222
7	Japanese (ja) シャチ		194
8	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		174
9	Hebrew (he) קטלן		145
10	Portuguese (pt) Orca		141

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) Orca		5
2	French (fr) Orque		3
3	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		3
4	Korean (ko) 범고래		3
5	Dutch (nl) Orka		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Orca		3
7	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		2
8	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Косатка		2
10	Czech (cs) Kosatka dravá		1

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

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