Blue shark

Quality:

Prionace glauca - species of fish. This taxon is the 1207^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 802^nd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Blue shark” in Simple English Wikipedia has 61.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 802^nd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1207^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6982^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Blue shark” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6982^nd place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Blue shark”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Prionace glauca is on the 802^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1207^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #440 in August 2012
• Global: #2211 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6640 in January 2017
• Global: #6053 in June 2017

There are 41 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) Blue shark		83.9055
2	Indonesian (id) Hiu biru		68.3282
3	Simple English (simple) Blue shark		61.0704
4	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-azul		56.9397
5	Malay (ms) Yu biru		54.8531
6	Japanese (ja) ヨシキリザメ		46.7087
7	Chinese (zh) 大青鲨		45.2005
8	Czech (cs) Žralok modrý		44.4998
9	Spanish (es) Prionace glauca		43.8143
10	Italian (it) Prionace glauca		42.7626

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue shark		2 695 853
2	Italian (it) Prionace glauca		1 019 869
3	Spanish (es) Prionace glauca		906 578
4	German (de) Blauhai		878 249
5	French (fr) Requin bleu		581 071
6	Japanese (ja) ヨシキリザメ		573 850
7	Russian (ru) Синяя акула		300 895
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-azul		216 883
9	Polish (pl) Żarłacz błękitny		185 243
10	Dutch (nl) Blauwe haai		175 910

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Italian (it) Prionace glauca		14 091
2	English (en) Blue shark		13 628
3	Spanish (es) Prionace glauca		4 362
4	German (de) Blauhai		4 072
5	Japanese (ja) ヨシキリザメ		2 311
6	French (fr) Requin bleu		2 112
7	Russian (ru) Синяя акула		1 678
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-azul		856
9	Croatian (hr) Modrulj		844
10	Swedish (sv) Blåhaj		727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blue shark		280
2	German (de) Blauhai		102
3	French (fr) Requin bleu		100
4	Italian (it) Prionace glauca		93
5	Dutch (nl) Blauwe haai		74
6	Norwegian (no) Blåhai		57
7	Spanish (es) Prionace glauca		51
8	Russian (ru) Синяя акула		50
9	Japanese (ja) ヨシキリザメ		42
10	Danish (da) Blåhaj		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) Blue shark		7
2	Persian (fa) کوسه آبی		4
3	Italian (it) Prionace glauca		3
4	Finnish (fi) Sinihai		1
5	Simple English (simple) Blue shark		1
6	Arabic (ar) قرش أزرق		0
7	Belarusian (be) Блакітная акула		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Синя акула		0
9	Catalan (ca) Tauró blau		0
10	Czech (cs) Žralok modrý		0

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

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