Lion

Quality:

Lion - species of big cat. This taxon is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 7^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Lion” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Italian 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 241^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 241^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 398^th most popular in all topics.

The 326^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 757^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1975^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1254^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Lion”, its content was written by 156 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (241^st place) and edited by 9282 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (326^th place).

Lion is on the 7^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 212 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 32174 times in all languages (5272^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15 in September 2011
• Global: #66 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #90 in November 2013
• Global: #122 in December 2014

There are 54 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	Italian (it) Panthera leo		100
2	German (de) Löwe		100
3	Turkish (tr) Aslan		100
4	Romanian (ro) Leu		100
5	Hindi (hi) सिंह (पशु)		100
6	Greek (el) Λιοντάρι		100
7	Catalan (ca) Lleó		100
8	Malay (ms) Singa		100
9	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		99.6525
10	Indonesian (id) Singa		99.5957

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lion		50 447 839
2	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		14 716 103
3	French (fr) Lion		9 751 302
4	German (de) Löwe		7 887 883
5	Russian (ru) Лев		6 424 591
6	Portuguese (pt) Leão		5 597 979
7	Arabic (ar) أسد		5 309 592
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		5 002 022
9	Italian (it) Panthera leo		4 645 784
10	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		3 356 994

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) Lion		101 579
2	Italian (it) Panthera leo		25 910
3	French (fr) Lion		22 670
4	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		17 071
5	Japanese (ja) ライオン		16 436
6	Russian (ru) Лев		15 312
7	German (de) Löwe		15 100
8	Portuguese (pt) Leão		8 337
9	Persian (fa) شیر (گربه‌سان)		6 073
10	Chinese (zh) 狮		5 684

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lion		1 905
2	French (fr) Lion		650
3	German (de) Löwe		464
4	Italian (it) Panthera leo		450
5	Spanish (es) Panthera leo		380
6	Hebrew (he) אריה		365
7	Russian (ru) Лев		350
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン		341
9	Polish (pl) Lew afrykański		261
10	Dutch (nl) Leeuw (dier)		235

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) Lion		11
2	Japanese (ja) ライオン		5
3	Italian (it) Panthera leo		4
4	Catalan (ca) Lleó		3
5	Korean (ko) 사자		3
6	Russian (ru) Лев		3
7	Azerbaijani (az) Şir		2
8	German (de) Löwe		2
9	Armenian (hy) Առյուծ		2
10	Indonesian (id) Singa		2

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information