Leech

Quality:

Leech - subclass of worms. This taxon is the 278^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 645^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Leech” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay 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 9801^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 645^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9090^th most popular in AI.

The 278^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Leech”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9801^st place) and edited by 2646 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9090^th place).

Leech is on the 645^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 278^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4123 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #762 in August 2006
• Global: #1156 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4525 in June 2011
• Global: #5336 in August 2015

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	Malay (ms) Lintah		100
2	English (en) Leech		93.4613
3	Indonesian (id) Lintah		92.1259
4	French (fr) Hirudinea		62.7995
5	Chinese (zh) 蚂蟥		60.8854
6	Tamil (ta) அட்டை		45.718
7	Polish (pl) Pijawki		39.179
8	Hungarian (hu) Piócák		33.9762
9	Persian (fa) زالو		32.808
10	Turkish (tr) Sülük		29.5108

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leech		9 481 691
2	Japanese (ja) ヒル (動物)		2 525 203
3	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		1 551 542
4	Russian (ru) Пиявки		1 493 835
5	French (fr) Hirudinea		915 084
6	Portuguese (pt) Sanguessuga		896 360
7	Chinese (zh) 蚂蟥		737 512
8	Italian (it) Hirudinea		706 281
9	Polish (pl) Pijawki		683 061
10	German (de) Egel		629 754

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) Leech		35 549
2	Japanese (ja) ヒル (動物)		8 698
3	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		5 315
4	Russian (ru) Пиявки		5 132
5	Chinese (zh) 蚂蟥		5 046
6	Italian (it) Hirudinea		4 371
7	French (fr) Hirudinea		2 711
8	German (de) Egel		2 520
9	Polish (pl) Pijawki		1 776
10	Portuguese (pt) Sanguessuga		1 727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leech		764
2	German (de) Egel		189
3	French (fr) Hirudinea		146
4	Russian (ru) Пиявки		125
5	Italian (it) Hirudinea		112
6	Dutch (nl) Bloedzuigers		111
7	Portuguese (pt) Sanguessuga		80
8	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		73
9	Hebrew (he) עלוקות		64
10	Hungarian (hu) Piócák		61

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	Spanish (es) Hirudinea		2
2	Czech (cs) Pijavice		1
3	Persian (fa) زالو		1
4	French (fr) Hirudinea		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Piócák		1
6	Arabic (ar) علقيات		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Zəlilər		0
8	Belarusian (be) П’яўкі		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Пиявици		0
10	Catalan (ca) Hirudinis		0

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

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