Giant squid

Quality:

Architeuthis - genus of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. This taxon is the 1431^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 495^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Giant squid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 495^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1431^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1097^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Giant squid”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 911 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Architeuthis is on the 495^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1431^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 741 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #660 in February 2020
• Global: #3305 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #591 in May 2025
• Global: #16309 in April 2015

There are 33 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	Spanish (es) Architeuthis		52.3559
2	Slovak (sk) Chytľanovité		47.3696
3	Dutch (nl) Architeuthis		45.6256
4	Greek (el) Γιγάντιο καλαμάρι		44.216
5	Russian (ru) Гигантские кальмары		39.9668
6	Simple English (simple) Giant squid		35.9076
7	Swedish (sv) Jättebläckfiskar		34.5508
8	Basque (eu) Txibia erraldoi		31.3151
9	Latin (la) Architeuthis		31.1386
10	Czech (cs) Krakatice obrovská		30.6397

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Architeuthis		2 315 394
2	Russian (ru) Гигантские кальмары		1 881 424
3	Portuguese (pt) Lula-gigante		665 834
4	Czech (cs) Krakatice obrovská		460 585
5	Dutch (nl) Architeuthis		366 227
6	Finnish (fi) Jättiläiskalmarit		328 031
7	Swedish (sv) Jättebläckfiskar		320 144
8	Hebrew (he) דיונון ענק		176 308
9	Arabic (ar) سبيدج عملاق		143 513
10	Danish (da) Kæmpeblæksprutte		130 408

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Гигантские кальмары		12 011
2	Spanish (es) Architeuthis		4 289
3	Simple English (simple) Giant squid		2 798
4	Portuguese (pt) Lula-gigante		883
5	Czech (cs) Krakatice obrovská		868
6	Finnish (fi) Jättiläiskalmarit		739
7	Dutch (nl) Architeuthis		531
8	Swedish (sv) Jättebläckfiskar		511
9	Turkish (tr) Dev kalamar		457
10	Arabic (ar) سبيدج عملاق		406

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Architeuthis		119
2	Dutch (nl) Architeuthis		102
3	Russian (ru) Гигантские кальмары		91
4	Hebrew (he) דיונון ענק		62
5	Portuguese (pt) Lula-gigante		61
6	Finnish (fi) Jättiläiskalmarit		50
7	Czech (cs) Krakatice obrovská		48
8	Swedish (sv) Jättebläckfiskar		45
9	Danish (da) Kæmpeblæksprutte		41
10	Norwegian (no) Kjempeblekkspruter		32

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	Dutch (nl) Architeuthis		1
2	Swedish (sv) Jättebläckfiskar		1
3	Arabic (ar) سبيدج عملاق		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Architeuthis		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Гигантски калмари		0
6	Catalan (ca) Calamar gegant		0
7	Czech (cs) Krakatice obrovská		0
8	Danish (da) Kæmpeblæksprutte		0
9	Greek (el) Γιγάντιο καλαμάρι		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Giganta kalmaro		0

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

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