Ichthyosaur

Quality:

Ichthyosauria - order of Ichthyopterygia. This taxon is the 2263^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 649^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ichthyosaur” in Simple English Wikipedia has 75.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 12 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:

The 649^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2263^rd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Ichthyosaur”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ichthyosauria is on the 649^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2263^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 58 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3798 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #690 in January 2014
• Global: #5229 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3222 in October 2010
• Global: #22034 in January 2022

There are 42 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) Ichthyosauria		100
2	Italian (it) Ichthyosauria		92.1896
3	English (en) Ichthyosauria		91.4558
4	Simple English (simple) Ichthyosaur		75.1844
5	German (de) Ichthyosaurier		73.7495
6	Volapük (vo) Ichthyosauria		52.7273
7	Russian (ru) Ихтиозавры		45.9104
8	Chinese (zh) 鱼龙目		44.749
9	Spanish (es) Ichthyosauria		44.6464
10	Czech (cs) Ichtyosauři		38.1197

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ichthyosauria		660 842
2	Japanese (ja) 魚竜		655 810
3	German (de) Ichthyosaurier		599 892
4	Russian (ru) Ихтиозавры		520 930
5	English (en) Ichthyosauria		497 515
6	Italian (it) Ichthyosauria		324 429
7	French (fr) Ichthyosauria		316 097
8	Chinese (zh) 鱼龙目		227 368
9	Portuguese (pt) Ictiossauro		190 469
10	Polish (pl) Ichtiozaury		179 347

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) Ichthyosauria		13 006
2	Russian (ru) Ихтиозавры		1 980
3	Japanese (ja) 魚竜		1 567
4	German (de) Ichthyosaurier		1 455
5	Spanish (es) Ichthyosauria		1 239
6	French (fr) Ichthyosauria		994
7	Chinese (zh) 鱼龙目		977
8	Italian (it) Ichthyosauria		940
9	Polish (pl) Ichtiozaury		626
10	Portuguese (pt) Ictiossauro		396

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ichthyosauria		355
2	German (de) Ichthyosaurier		141
3	Italian (it) Ichthyosauria		86
4	French (fr) Ichthyosauria		85
5	Russian (ru) Ихтиозавры		82
6	Dutch (nl) Ichthyosauria		62
7	Japanese (ja) 魚竜		60
8	Spanish (es) Ichthyosauria		47
9	Hebrew (he) איכתיוזאוריה		39
10	Portuguese (pt) Ictiossauro		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	Korean (ko) 어룡		2
2	Czech (cs) Ichtyosauři		1
3	Basque (eu) Ichthyosauria		1
4	Italian (it) Ichthyosauria		1
5	Japanese (ja) 魚竜		1
6	Arabic (ar) إكتيوصور		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) İxtiozavrlar		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ихтиозаври		0
9	Catalan (ca) Ictiosaures (ordre)		0
10	Danish (da) Hvaløgler		0

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

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