Honey bee

Quality:

Apis - genus of insects. This taxon is the 296^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 432^nd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Honey bee” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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 432^nd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6576^th most popular in AI.

The 296^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8374^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3628^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Honey bee” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (8374^th place) and written by 34 authors in all languages (3628^th place).

Since the creation of article “Honey bee”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3109 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6576^th place).

Apis is on the 432^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 296^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5843 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1989 in August 2018
• Global: #1261 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2056 in August 2022
• Global: #6041 in May 2009

There are 45 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) Honey bee		94.1809
2	Malay (ms) Lebah madu		92.0099
3	Chinese (zh) 蜜蜂屬		79.6733
4	Tamil (ta) தேனீ		76.1436
5	French (fr) Apis (insecte)		66.0252
6	Japanese (ja) ミツバチ		63.0454
7	Croatian (hr) Medonosna pčela		50.2928
8	Persian (fa) زنبور عسل (سرده)		45.0377
9	German (de) Honigbienen		44.7053
10	Swedish (sv) Honungsbin		44.1574

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honey bee		12 002 783
2	Japanese (ja) ミツバチ		2 465 412
3	German (de) Honigbienen		1 397 841
4	Italian (it) Apis		1 249 525
5	Chinese (zh) 蜜蜂屬		1 174 406
6	Persian (fa) زنبور عسل (سرده)		862 190
7	Hindi (hi) मधुमक्खी		532 352
8	French (fr) Apis (insecte)		513 586
9	Czech (cs) Včela		424 142
10	Arabic (ar) نحل العسل		378 436

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) Honey bee		53 596
2	Japanese (ja) ミツバチ		7 593
3	Chinese (zh) 蜜蜂屬		4 334
4	Italian (it) Apis		4 006
5	German (de) Honigbienen		3 805
6	Czech (cs) Včela		1 944
7	Korean (ko) 꿀벌		1 086
8	Russian (ru) Медоносные пчёлы		980
9	French (fr) Apis (insecte)		958
10	Hindi (hi) मधुमक्खी		892

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Honey bee		1 163
2	French (fr) Apis (insecte)		288
3	German (de) Honigbienen		265
4	Italian (it) Apis		176
5	Japanese (ja) ミツバチ		132
6	Persian (fa) زنبور عسل (سرده)		126
7	Polish (pl) Apis (owad)		90
8	Czech (cs) Včela		88
9	Korean (ko) 꿀벌		54
10	Norwegian (no) Honningbier		50

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) Honey bee		17
2	Korean (ko) 꿀벌		5
3	Czech (cs) Včela		2
4	German (de) Honigbienen		2
5	Japanese (ja) ミツバチ		2
6	Danish (da) Honningbier		1
7	French (fr) Apis (insecte)		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Apis		1
9	Simple English (simple) Honey bee		1
10	Tamil (ta) தேனீ		1

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

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