Canis dirus

Quality:

Dire wolf - extinct species of canids (Canidae). This taxon is the 371^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 252^nd most popular taxon in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. Article "Canis dirus" in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 61.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia:

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The 8246^th most popular in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

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The 5698^th most editable in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

The 252^nd most popular in taxon in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 371^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia:

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The 8844^th most popular in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8445^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6480^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Canis dirus", its content was written by 14 registered users of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (5698^th place) and edited by 1588 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Dire wolf is on the 252^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and on the 371^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 1142 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #246 in May 2021
• Global: #14 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #37 in April 2025
• Global: #16 in April 2025

There are 39 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) Dire wolf		100
2	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		100
3	Croatian (hr) Canis dirus		81.0797
4	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		76.7182
5	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		67.5227
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Canis dirus		61.9368
7	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		51.8429
8	Turkish (tr) Ulukurt		48.9783
9	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		45.949
10	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		45.0621

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dire wolf		14 816 058
2	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		944 484
3	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		915 357
4	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		757 347
5	Japanese (ja) ダイアウルフ		513 788
6	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		489 603
7	French (fr) Canis dirus		408 621
8	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		372 201
9	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		293 251
10	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		163 925

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) Dire wolf		83 814
2	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		7 166
3	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		6 248
4	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		5 189
5	French (fr) Canis dirus		3 428
6	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		3 223
7	Japanese (ja) ダイアウルフ		3 208
8	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		2 208
9	Swedish (sv) Jättevarg		2 179
10	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		1 727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dire wolf		590
2	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		105
3	French (fr) Canis dirus		97
4	Russian (ru) Ужасный волк		89
5	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		78
6	Dutch (nl) Reuzenwolf		59
7	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		54
8	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		52
9	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		46
10	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfarkas		41

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) Dire wolf		9
2	German (de) Aenocyon dirus		3
3	Spanish (es) Aenocyon dirus		3
4	Italian (it) Aenocyon dirus		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Lobo-terrível		2
6	Chinese (zh) 恐狼		2
7	Finnish (fi) Hirviösusi		1
8	French (fr) Canis dirus		1
9	Polish (pl) Aenocyon dirus		1
10	Swedish (sv) Jättevarg		1

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

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