European hornet

Quality:

Vespa crabro - species of insect. This taxon is the 262^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “European hornet” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 262^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5958^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “European hornet”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1620 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Vespa crabro is on the 262^nd place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 855 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5508 in November 2019
• Global: #2242 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12185 in August 2018
• Global: #387 in August 2018

There are 37 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	Czech (cs) Sršeň obecná		97.56
2	Dutch (nl) Europese hoornaar		90.2941
3	Hungarian (hu) Lódarázs		80.0748
4	German (de) Hornisse		74.2323
5	English (en) European hornet		69.9682
6	Swedish (sv) Bålgeting		57.2334
7	Estonian (et) Vapsik		56.5697
8	Esperanto (eo) Krabro		52.7157
9	Turkish (tr) Eşek arısı		51.5454
10	Norwegian (no) Geithams		51.2839

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Hornisse		6 236 397
2	English (en) European hornet		3 743 442
3	Italian (it) Vespa crabro		3 034 700
4	Polish (pl) Szerszeń europejski		2 836 507
5	Dutch (nl) Europese hoornaar		2 313 544
6	Swedish (sv) Bålgeting		1 185 144
7	French (fr) Vespa crabro		903 299
8	Russian (ru) Шершень обыкновенный		828 375
9	Hungarian (hu) Lódarázs		668 965
10	Czech (cs) Sršeň obecná		616 305

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Hornisse		26 463
2	Italian (it) Vespa crabro		19 851
3	English (en) European hornet		19 645
4	Finnish (fi) Herhiläinen		13 419
5	Swedish (sv) Bålgeting		11 997
6	Dutch (nl) Europese hoornaar		10 417
7	Russian (ru) Шершень обыкновенный		9 244
8	Norwegian (no) Geithams		6 561
9	French (fr) Vespa crabro		6 530
10	Polish (pl) Szerszeń europejski		6 122

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hornisse		285
2	English (en) European hornet		170
3	Dutch (nl) Europese hoornaar		141
4	French (fr) Vespa crabro		125
5	Italian (it) Vespa crabro		116
6	Polish (pl) Szerszeń europejski		92
7	Hungarian (hu) Lódarázs		83
8	Turkish (tr) Eşek arısı		61
9	Czech (cs) Sršeň obecná		57
10	Swedish (sv) Bålgeting		57

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	French (fr) Vespa crabro		4
2	Italian (it) Vespa crabro		3
3	Dutch (nl) Europese hoornaar		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Lódarázs		2
5	German (de) Hornisse		1
6	Swedish (sv) Bålgeting		1
7	Arabic (ar) زنبور أحمر أوروبي		0
8	Belarusian (be) Шэршань звычайны		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Европейски стършел		0
10	Catalan (ca) Vespa xana		0

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

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, Pornhub, XXXTentacion, XVideos, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Manon Bannerman, Ajit Pawar, List of U.S. states, List of sex positions.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information