Elephant bird

Quality:

Elephant bird or aepyornithiformes - family of birds (subfossil). This taxon is the 1255^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 721^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Elephant bird” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 721^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1255^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Elephant bird”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Elephant bird or aepyornithiformes is on the 721^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1255^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1598 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #187 in November 2011
• Global: #1874 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #891 in December 2011
• Global: #6032 in March 2013

There are 38 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	German (de) Elefantenvögel		98.5714
2	English (en) Elephant bird		71.1936
3	Russian (ru) Эпиорнисовые		45.7566
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Elefantfuglar		44.2103
5	Norwegian (no) Elefantfuglfamilien		41.2476
6	Chinese (zh) 象鸟		39.2943
7	Korean (ko) 코끼리새		38.2558
8	Ukrainian (uk) Епіорнісові		36.8353
9	Swedish (sv) Elefantfåglar		35.855
10	Croatian (hr) Golemašice		32.4233

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant bird		5 160 871
2	German (de) Elefantenvögel		800 339
3	Spanish (es) Aepyornithidae		506 798
4	Russian (ru) Эпиорнисовые		344 410
5	Portuguese (pt) Aepyornithidae		227 297
6	Chinese (zh) 象鸟		215 598
7	Dutch (nl) Olifantsvogels		207 313
8	Polish (pl) Mamutak		150 278
9	French (fr) Aepyornithiformes		105 318
10	Finnish (fi) Norsulinnut		90 986

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) Elephant bird		21 145
2	German (de) Elefantenvögel		2 025
3	Russian (ru) Эпиорнисовые		1 372
4	Spanish (es) Aepyornithidae		1 347
5	Chinese (zh) 象鸟		976
6	Italian (it) Aepyornithidae		590
7	Korean (ko) 코끼리새		581
8	Polish (pl) Mamutak		524
9	Portuguese (pt) Aepyornithidae		511
10	Japanese (ja) エピオルニス科		490

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant bird		334
2	German (de) Elefantenvögel		123
3	Dutch (nl) Olifantsvogels		67
4	French (fr) Aepyornithiformes		64
5	Russian (ru) Эпиорнисовые		58
6	Hungarian (hu) Elefántmadár-félék		47
7	Spanish (es) Aepyornithidae		46
8	Danish (da) Elefantfugl		43
9	Finnish (fi) Norsulinnut		31
10	Chinese (zh) 象鸟		29

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	Danish (da) Elefantfugl		1
2	English (en) Elephant bird		1
3	French (fr) Aepyornithiformes		1
4	Arabic (ar) طائر الفيل		0
5	Catalan (ca) Ocells elefant		0
6	German (de) Elefantenvögel		0
7	Greek (el) Αιπυόρνις		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Elefantbirdo		0
9	Spanish (es) Aepyornithidae		0
10	Estonian (et) Raitlind		0

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

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