Humpback whale

Quality:

Humpback whale - species of mammal. This taxon is the 335^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 708^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Humpback whale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4159^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 708^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6225^th most popular in AI.

The 335^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9657^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Humpback whale”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4159^th place) and edited by 3239 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6225^th place).

Humpback whale is on the 708^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 335^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7075 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #173 in April 2014
• Global: #649 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4123 in April 2009
• Global: #1296 in April 2026

There are 51 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, 2026 (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	Dutch (nl) Bultrug		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Hosszúszárnyú bálna		100
3	Czech (cs) Keporkak		99.4654
4	Polish (pl) Długopłetwiec oceaniczny		97.5677
5	English (en) Humpback whale		95.0145
6	Indonesian (id) Paus bungkuk		94.9223
7	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-jubarte		94.9176
8	Italian (it) Megaptera novaeangliae		88.3117
9	Japanese (ja) ザトウクジラ		82.3654
10	Russian (ru) Горбатый кит		78.9433

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Humpback whale		9 458 147
2	German (de) Buckelwal		2 401 225
3	Spanish (es) Megaptera novaeangliae		1 614 320
4	French (fr) Baleine à bosse		1 195 317
5	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-jubarte		1 114 699
6	Russian (ru) Горбатый кит		923 156
7	Japanese (ja) ザトウクジラ		901 266
8	Italian (it) Megaptera novaeangliae		709 747
9	Chinese (zh) 大翅鲸		646 726
10	Dutch (nl) Bultrug		517 049

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) Humpback whale		34 314
2	German (de) Buckelwal		17 782
3	Spanish (es) Megaptera novaeangliae		4 648
4	Italian (it) Megaptera novaeangliae		3 818
5	Russian (ru) Горбатый кит		3 803
6	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-jubarte		3 575
7	Chinese (zh) 大翅鲸		3 379
8	French (fr) Baleine à bosse		3 318
9	Japanese (ja) ザトウクジラ		3 184
10	Polish (pl) Długopłetwiec oceaniczny		2 578

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Humpback whale		990
2	French (fr) Baleine à bosse		245
3	German (de) Buckelwal		241
4	Dutch (nl) Bultrug		158
5	Spanish (es) Megaptera novaeangliae		145
6	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-jubarte		125
7	Italian (it) Megaptera novaeangliae		104
8	Russian (ru) Горбатый кит		103
9	Polish (pl) Długopłetwiec oceaniczny		93
10	Hebrew (he) לווייתן גדול-סנפיר		76

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) Humpback whale		3
2	French (fr) Baleine à bosse		3
3	German (de) Buckelwal		2
4	Hungarian (hu) Hosszúszárnyú bálna		2
5	Indonesian (id) Paus bungkuk		2
6	Polish (pl) Długopłetwiec oceaniczny		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qozbel balina		1
8	Catalan (ca) Iubarta		1
9	Italian (it) Megaptera novaeangliae		1
10	Malay (ms) Paus kelasa		1

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

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