Dung beetle

Quality:

Dung beetles - informal group of beetles. Article “Dung beetle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 1168 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 993 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #422 in September 2021
• Global: #7712 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #564 in April 2014
• Global: #15352 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, 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) Dung beetle		64.8982
2	Galician (gl) Escaravello peloteiro		52.7368
3	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		52.3377
4	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		46.9185
5	Simple English (simple) Dung beetle		37.8522
6	French (fr) Bousier		35.7147
7	Ukrainian (uk) Жуки-гнойовики		33.8402
8	Tamil (ta) சாணி வண்டு		30.0565
9	Esperanto (eo) Sterkoskarabo		29.4557
10	Catalan (ca) Escarabat piloter		24.6018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dung beetle		5 321 741
2	French (fr) Bousier		665 194
3	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		586 002
4	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		559 209
5	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		484 138
6	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		407 746
7	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		346 006
8	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		221 005
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bọ hung		150 662
10	Hebrew (he) חיפושיות זבל		125 157

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		20 102
2	French (fr) Bousier		3 416
3	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		3 089
4	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		3 080
5	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		2 727
6	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		2 495
7	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		1 606
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bọ hung		888
9	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		883
10	Simple English (simple) Dung beetle		737

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		559
2	French (fr) Bousier		99
3	Dutch (nl) Mestkevers		83
4	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		78
5	Turkish (tr) Bok böceği		62
6	Hebrew (he) חיפושיות זבל		54
7	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		35
8	Chinese (zh) 蜣螂		33
9	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		32
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		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Sterkoskarabo		1
3	Italian (it) Scarabeo stercorario		1
4	Japanese (ja) 糞虫		1
5	Arabic (ar) جعل الروث		0
6	Catalan (ca) Escarabat piloter		0
7	Spanish (es) Escarabajo pelotero		0
8	Persian (fa) سرگین‌غلتان		0
9	French (fr) Bousier		0
10	Galician (gl) Escaravello peloteiro		0

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

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