Herring

Quality:

Herring - forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. Article “Herring” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Herring”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 144 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3699 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1328 in August 2008
• Global: #1086 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4030 in January 2013
• Global: #22494 in December 2008

There are 15 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) Herring		96.8904
2	Chinese (zh) 鯡魚		68.6428
3	Slovenian (sl) Sled		55.8167
4	Malay (ms) Ikan hering		48.0894
5	Japanese (ja) ニシン		42.5708
6	Persian (fa) شاه‌ماهی		31.488
7	Tamil (ta) வெங்கணை		28.9652
8	Slovak (sk) Sleď		24.9038
9	Thai (th) ปลาเฮร์ริง		21.6698
10	Indonesian (id) Bengkalis (ikan)		19.3153

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Herring		5 369 975
2	Japanese (ja) ニシン		1 900 974
3	Polish (pl) Śledź		592 376
4	Chinese (zh) 鯡魚		303 204
5	Persian (fa) شاه‌ماهی		100 724
6	Croatian (hr) Haringe		81 114
7	French (fr) Hareng frais		77 411
8	Indonesian (id) Bengkalis (ikan)		47 492
9	Czech (cs) Sleď		46 007
10	Simple English (simple) Herring		29 369

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) Herring		16 739
2	Japanese (ja) ニシン		6 119
3	Chinese (zh) 鯡魚		2 800
4	Simple English (simple) Herring		521
5	French (fr) Hareng frais		370
6	Croatian (hr) Haringe		363
7	Polish (pl) Śledź		361
8	Slovenian (sl) Sled		341
9	Persian (fa) شاه‌ماهی		313
10	Thai (th) ปลาเฮร์ริง		261

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Herring		388
2	Japanese (ja) ニシン		90
3	Simple English (simple) Herring		20
4	French (fr) Hareng frais		19
5	Polish (pl) Śledź		15
6	Persian (fa) شاه‌ماهی		14
7	Chinese (zh) 鯡魚		14
8	Croatian (hr) Haringe		13
9	Czech (cs) Sleď		4
10	Slovenian (sl) Sled		4

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	Czech (cs) Sleď		0
2	English (en) Herring		0
3	Persian (fa) شاه‌ماهی		0
4	French (fr) Hareng frais		0
5	Croatian (hr) Haringe		0
6	Indonesian (id) Bengkalis (ikan)		0
7	Japanese (ja) ニシン		0
8	Malay (ms) Ikan hering		0
9	Polish (pl) Śledź		0
10	Simple English (simple) Herring		0

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

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