Catfish

Quality:

Siluriformes - order of fishes. This taxon is the 476^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 550^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Catfish” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 550^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 476^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Catfish”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1940 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Siluriformes is on the 550^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 476^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 41530 times in all languages (4093^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #69 in March 2015
• Global: #977 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2836 in January 2026
• Global: #4734 in September 2010

There are 46 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) Catfish		85.8915
2	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá da trơn		74.5351
3	Czech (cs) Sumci		70.3193
4	Japanese (ja) ナマズ目		59.5112
5	Malay (ms) Siluriformes		56.2
6	Catalan (ca) Siluriformes		52.0795
7	French (fr) Siluriformes		50.8091
8	Russian (ru) Сомообразные		43.4089
9	Spanish (es) Siluriformes		43.1599
10	Chinese (zh) 鲇形目		38.713

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catfish		12 896 039
2	Spanish (es) Siluriformes		1 300 768
3	French (fr) Siluriformes		780 351
4	German (de) Welsartige		533 305
5	Chinese (zh) 鲇形目		411 817
6	Russian (ru) Сомообразные		306 932
7	Japanese (ja) ナマズ目		298 124
8	Portuguese (pt) Siluriformes		235 355
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá da trơn		233 000
10	Arabic (ar) سلوريات الشكل		225 980

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) Catfish		34 352
2	Spanish (es) Siluriformes		2 900
3	French (fr) Siluriformes		2 611
4	Chinese (zh) 鲇形目		1 758
5	German (de) Welsartige		1 501
6	Russian (ru) Сомообразные		1 055
7	Japanese (ja) ナマズ目		893
8	Greek (el) Γατόψαρο		734
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá da trơn		657
10	Portuguese (pt) Siluriformes		616

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catfish		902
2	French (fr) Siluriformes		109
3	German (de) Welsartige		92
4	Chinese (zh) 鲇形目		68
5	Spanish (es) Siluriformes		66
6	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá da trơn		53
7	Italian (it) Siluriformes		51
8	Japanese (ja) ナマズ目		45
9	Russian (ru) Сомообразные		43
10	Danish (da) Malle		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) Catfish		8
2	Chinese (zh) 鲇形目		2
3	Czech (cs) Sumci		1
4	French (fr) Siluriformes		1
5	Indonesian (id) Siluriformes		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Siluriformes		1
7	Arabic (ar) سلوريات الشكل		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Naxakimilər		0
9	Belarusian (be) Сомападобныя		0
10	Catalan (ca) Siluriformes		0

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

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