Killer whale

Quality:

Orcinus orca - species in the oceanic dolphin family. This taxon is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 153^rd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Killer whale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 3312^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2590^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 153^rd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1409^th most popular in all topics.

The 1552^nd most popular in AI.

The 17^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 568^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4848^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1696^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4408^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Killer whale” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4848^th place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4408^th place).

Since the creation of article “Killer whale”, its content was written by 50 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2590^th place) and edited by 5485 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1552^nd place).

Orcinus orca is on the 153^rd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 67 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9163 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #150 in January 2010
• Global: #118 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #314 in September 2022
• Global: #226 in September 2014

There are 53 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	German (de) Schwertwal		100
2	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		100
3	Persian (fa) نهنگ قاتل		100
4	English (en) Orca		97.8408
5	Japanese (ja) シャチ		97.5358
6	Korean (ko) 범고래		84.1548
7	Hebrew (he) קטלן		78.858
8	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		76.6886
9	Polish (pl) Orka oceaniczna		75.1816
10	French (fr) Orque		68.4894

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orca		33 202 483
2	Japanese (ja) シャチ		5 961 575
3	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		5 723 427
4	German (de) Schwertwal		5 616 503
5	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		4 942 430
6	French (fr) Orque		4 111 521
7	Portuguese (pt) Orca		2 114 889
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		1 948 621
9	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		1 910 968
10	Dutch (nl) Orka		1 325 549

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) Orca		129 267
2	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		27 063
3	Japanese (ja) シャチ		26 221
4	German (de) Schwertwal		21 326
5	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		18 908
6	French (fr) Orque		13 027
7	Chinese (zh) 虎鯨		11 730
8	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		9 338
9	Portuguese (pt) Orca		8 564
10	Turkish (tr) Katil balina		6 473

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orca		1 564
2	French (fr) Orque		409
3	German (de) Schwertwal		408
4	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		249
5	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		235
6	Dutch (nl) Orka		222
7	Japanese (ja) シャチ		194
8	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		174
9	Hebrew (he) קטלן		145
10	Portuguese (pt) Orca		141

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) Orca		5
2	French (fr) Orque		3
3	Italian (it) Orcinus orca		3
4	Korean (ko) 범고래		3
5	Dutch (nl) Orka		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Orca		3
7	Spanish (es) Orcinus orca		2
8	Russian (ru) Косатка (млекопитающее)		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Косатка		2
10	Czech (cs) Kosatka dravá		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information