Eel

Quality:

Anguilliformes - order of fishes. This taxon is the 737^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 98^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Eel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2201^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 98^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 737^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Eel”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1714 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Anguilliformes is on the 98^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 737^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 153 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13727 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #185 in December 2022
• Global: #531 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #129 in July 2023
• Global: #11884 in November 2025

There are 53 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) Eel		77.7652
2	Czech (cs) Holobřiší		59.2401
3	Esperanto (eo) Angiloformaj		55.6519
4	Latin (la) Anguilliformes		52.9185
5	Catalan (ca) Anguil·liformes		52.885
6	Chinese (zh) 鰻		51.7022
7	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		51.0883
8	Polish (pl) Węgorzokształtne		41.3376
9	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		39.4939
10	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		38.9417

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eel		8 985 488
2	Chinese (zh) 鰻		806 963
3	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		412 861
4	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		333 078
5	German (de) Aalartige		299 608
6	Indonesian (id) Sidat		231 872
7	Russian (ru) Угреобразные		223 633
8	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		222 011
9	Arabic (ar) أنقليس		217 825
10	Greek (el) Χέλι		183 239

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) Eel		25 871
2	Chinese (zh) 鰻		4 550
3	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		1 256
4	Indonesian (id) Sidat		1 104
5	Romanian (ro) Anghilă		952
6	German (de) Aalartige		915
7	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		915
8	Greek (el) Χέλι		890
9	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		836
10	Turkish (tr) Yılan balığı		836

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eel		597
2	German (de) Aalartige		106
3	Hebrew (he) צלופחאים		76
4	French (fr) Anguilliformes		70
5	Chinese (zh) 鰻		66
6	Dutch (nl) Palingachtigen		49
7	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		48
8	Danish (da) Ålefisk		44
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Cá chình		42
10	Spanish (es) Anguilliformes		39

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) Eel		4
2	Japanese (ja) ウナギ目		2
3	Catalan (ca) Anguil·liformes		1
4	Italian (it) Anguilliformes		1
5	Polish (pl) Węgorzokształtne		1
6	Arabic (ar) أنقليس		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Angvilkimilər		0
8	Belarusian (be) Вугрападобныя		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Змиоркоподобни		0
10	Czech (cs) Holobřiší		0

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

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