Dung beetle

Quality:

Dung beetles - informal group of beetles. Article “Dung beetle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Dung beetle”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1194 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 996 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #422 in September 2021
• Global: #7726 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #598 in April 2014
• Global: #15387 in August 2018

There are 24 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) Dung beetle		72.7264
2	Galician (gl) Escaravello peloteiro		52.9296
3	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		52.1131
4	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		45.7124
5	Simple English (simple) Dung beetle		35.6137
6	French (fr) Bousier		34.2124
7	Ukrainian (uk) Жуки-гнойовики		33.3609
8	Tamil (ta) சாணி வண்டு		29.9934
9	Esperanto (eo) Sterkoskarabo		29.315
10	Catalan (ca) Escarabat piloter		24.6032

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dung beetle		5 504 973
2	French (fr) Bousier		698 896
3	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		608 470
4	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		579 571
5	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		502 027
6	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		428 687
7	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		369 412
8	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		229 218
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bọ hung		156 410
10	Hebrew (he) חיפושיות זבל		129 349

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) Dung beetle		15 374
2	French (fr) Bousier		3 288
3	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		2 147
4	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		2 034
5	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		1 977
6	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		1 721
7	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		1 232
8	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		686
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bọ hung		483
10	Persian (fa) سرگین‌غلتان		415

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dung beetle		567
2	French (fr) Bousier		106
3	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		83
4	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		78
5	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		64
6	Hebrew (he) חיפושיות זבל		54
7	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		38
8	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		36
9	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		33
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bọ hung		25

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) Dung beetle		2
2	Persian (fa) سرگین‌غلتان		1
3	Galician (gl) Escaravello peloteiro		1
4	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		1
5	Tamil (ta) சாணி வண்டு		1
6	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		1
7	Arabic (ar) جعل الروث		0
8	Catalan (ca) Escarabat piloter		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Sterkoskarabo		0
10	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		0

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

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