Gila monster

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Gila monster - species of venomous lizard from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. This taxon is the 1075^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 973^rd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Gila monster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.39 points.

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:

The 973^rd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1075^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Gila monster”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1349 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Gila monster is on the 973^rd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1075^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 876 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1358 in February 2019
• Global: #4191 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6824 in February 2009
• Global: #3694 in November 2014

There are 41 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) Gila monster		90.4909
2	German (de) Gila-Krustenechse		82.8205
3	Catalan (ca) Monstre de Gila		61.7963
4	Slovenian (sl) Strupeni bradavičar		60.867
5	Galician (gl) Heloderma suspectum		59.5029
6	Latin (la) Heloderma suspectum		53.7564
7	Swedish (sv) Gilaödla		49.5727
8	Malay (ms) Geriang hila		47.7877
9	Spanish (es) Heloderma suspectum		46.6038
10	Serbian (sr) Heloderma suspectum		42.7933

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gila monster		6 816 464
2	Spanish (es) Heloderma suspectum		691 731
3	German (de) Gila-Krustenechse		575 053
4	French (fr) Monstre de Gila		267 323
5	Portuguese (pt) Monstro-de-gila		223 992
6	Italian (it) Heloderma suspectum		161 791
7	Dutch (nl) Gilamonster		156 228
8	Japanese (ja) アメリカドクトカゲ		128 543
9	Russian (ru) Аризонский ядозуб		106 538
10	Polish (pl) Heloderma arizońska		64 218

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) Gila monster		36 731
2	Spanish (es) Heloderma suspectum		3 204
3	German (de) Gila-Krustenechse		2 351
4	French (fr) Monstre de Gila		1 357
5	Italian (it) Heloderma suspectum		1 302
6	Russian (ru) Аризонский ядозуб		606
7	Japanese (ja) アメリカドクトカゲ		551
8	Dutch (nl) Gilamonster		528
9	Portuguese (pt) Monstro-de-gila		527
10	Czech (cs) Korovec jedovatý		361

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gila monster		501
2	German (de) Gila-Krustenechse		179
3	Dutch (nl) Gilamonster		76
4	French (fr) Monstre de Gila		70
5	Italian (it) Heloderma suspectum		58
6	Spanish (es) Heloderma suspectum		52
7	Norwegian (no) Gilaøgle		33
8	Hungarian (hu) Gila		32
9	Hebrew (he) הלודרמה מרירית		30
10	Russian (ru) Аризонский ядозуб		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	German (de) Gila-Krustenechse		1
2	French (fr) Monstre de Gila		1
3	Korean (ko) 아메리카독도마뱀		1
4	Arabic (ar) هيلية		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Аризонски отровен гущер		0
6	Catalan (ca) Monstre de Gila		0
7	Czech (cs) Korovec jedovatý		0
8	Greek (el) Σαύρα Χίλα		0
9	English (en) Gila monster		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Gila monstro		0

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

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