Elephant seal

Quality:

Elephant seal - genus of mammals. This taxon is the 1066^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 848^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Elephant seal" in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 848^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1066^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6436^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Elephant seal" was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6436^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Elephant seal", its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1266 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Elephant seal is on the 848^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1066^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #203 in July 2013
• Global: #5614 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7751 in June 2015
• Global: #27892 in May 2025

There are 44 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) Elephant seal		88.0647
2	Greek (el) Θαλάσσιος ελέφαντας		68.735
3	Malay (ms) Gajah laut		53.8426
4	Tamil (ta) கடல் யானை		52.7365
5	Polish (pl) Mirunga		48.6051
6	Catalan (ca) Elefant marí		46.3279
7	Chinese (zh) 象海豹属		42.6633
8	German (de) See-Elefanten		38.2215
9	Arabic (ar) فيل البحر		32.4174
10	Swedish (sv) Sjöelefanter		30.9584

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant seal		4 389 178
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		959 974
3	Spanish (es) Mirounga		771 732
4	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		635 342
5	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		622 841
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		311 941
7	Polish (pl) Mirunga		311 727
8	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-marinho		284 505
9	Japanese (ja) ゾウアザラシ属		205 059
10	Dutch (nl) Zeeolifanten		195 721

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 seal		22 304
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		4 241
3	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		3 221
4	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		3 059
5	Spanish (es) Mirounga		2 978
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		1 580
7	Polish (pl) Mirunga		1 131
8	Portuguese (pt) Elefante-marinho		1 115
9	Japanese (ja) ゾウアザラシ属		1 004
10	Chinese (zh) 象海豹属		729

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant seal		482
2	German (de) See-Elefanten		119
3	French (fr) Éléphant de mer		73
4	Dutch (nl) Zeeolifanten		58
5	Spanish (es) Mirounga		52
6	Italian (it) Mirounga		47
7	Russian (ru) Морские слоны		41
8	Hebrew (he) פיל ים		37
9	Swedish (sv) Sjöelefanter		31
10	Hungarian (hu) Elefántfóka		27

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) Elephant seal		4
2	Catalan (ca) Elefant marí		1
3	German (de) See-Elefanten		1
4	Polish (pl) Mirunga		1
5	Simple English (simple) Elephant seal		1
6	Arabic (ar) فيل البحر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dəniz fili		0
8	Belarusian (be) Марскія сланы		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Морски слонове		0
10	Czech (cs) Rypouš		0

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

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