Hydra (animal)

Quality:

Hydra - genus of cnidarians. This taxon is the 558^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 296^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Hydra (animal)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6612^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5822^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 296^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 558^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7856^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Hydra (animal)”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5822^nd place) and edited by 1613 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hydra is on the 296^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 558^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1408 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #60 in May 2014
• Global: #2432 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1992 in February 2020
• Global: #8493 in October 2021

There are 43 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) Hydra (genus)		67.0064
2	Ukrainian (uk) Гідра (рід)		42.8449
3	Spanish (es) Hydra (animal)		42.3969
4	French (fr) Hydre (zoologie)		41.8819
5	German (de) Süßwasserpolypen		40.4165
6	Russian (ru) Гидры		38.4843
7	Dutch (nl) Hydra (geslacht)		31.9567
8	Persian (fa) هیدرا (سرده)		30.2539
9	Portuguese (pt) Hydra (género)		28.3171
10	Swedish (sv) Hydra (djur)		27.1635

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hydra (genus)		6 296 448
2	Russian (ru) Гидры		1 993 097
3	Spanish (es) Hydra (animal)		1 388 361
4	Japanese (ja) ヒドラ (生物)		784 912
5	French (fr) Hydre (zoologie)		667 970
6	German (de) Süßwasserpolypen		631 338
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гідра (рід)		520 036
8	Thai (th) ไฮดรา (สกุล)		357 948
9	Portuguese (pt) Hydra (género)		357 428
10	Indonesian (id) Hydra (genus)		335 319

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) Hydra (genus)		18 557
2	Russian (ru) Гидры		3 668
3	Japanese (ja) ヒドラ (生物)		3 547
4	Spanish (es) Hydra (animal)		2 367
5	French (fr) Hydre (zoologie)		1 498
6	German (de) Süßwasserpolypen		1 329
7	Chinese (zh) 水螅屬		1 059
8	Portuguese (pt) Hydra (género)		1 058
9	Simple English (simple) Hydra (animal)		840
10	Italian (it) Hydra (zoologia)		580

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hydra (genus)		387
2	German (de) Süßwasserpolypen		176
3	French (fr) Hydre (zoologie)		110
4	Russian (ru) Гидры		103
5	Spanish (es) Hydra (animal)		89
6	Italian (it) Hydra (zoologia)		47
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гідра (рід)		42
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy tức		42
9	Japanese (ja) ヒドラ (生物)		39
10	Norwegian (no) Hydra (nesledyr)		36

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) Hydra (genus)		2
2	German (de) Süßwasserpolypen		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Hydra (állatnem)		1
4	Arabic (ar) عدار (جنس)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şirin su hidrası		0
6	Belarusian (be) Гідры		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Хидри		0
8	Catalan (ca) Hydra (gènere)		0
9	Czech (cs) Hydra (rod)		0
10	Danish (da) Hydra (slægt)		0

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

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