Loon

Quality:

Gavia - genus of birds. This taxon is the 2047^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon. Article “Loon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2047^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Loon”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 783 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Gavia is on the 2047^th place in global ranking of taxon on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3117 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #554 in February 2013
• Global: #6138 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8684 in September 2016
• Global: #42228 in January 2026

There are 35 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	English (en) Loon		83.7292
2	Slovenian (sl) Slapniki		47.1535
3	Russian (ru) Гагары		40.2949
4	Catalan (ca) Gavia		36.4147
5	Hindi (hi) लून (पक्षी)		35.5689
6	Swedish (sv) Lommar		34.5327
7	Romanian (ro) Cufundar		33.308
8	Arabic (ar) غواص (طائر)		29.4075
9	Spanish (es) Gavia		29.2846
10	Azerbaijani (az) Qaqar		25.0881

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Loon		3 954 038
2	Russian (ru) Гагары		552 524
3	Spanish (es) Gavia		193 819
4	Swedish (sv) Lommar		187 987
5	Finnish (fi) Kuikat		77 588
6	Italian (it) Gavia (zoologia)		62 962
7	Lithuanian (lt) Narai		58 434
8	Chinese (zh) 潜鸟属		43 625
9	Ukrainian (uk) Гагара		32 388
10	Turkish (tr) Dalgıç kuşu		32 108

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) Loon		22 665
2	Russian (ru) Гагары		2 084
3	Swedish (sv) Lommar		1 092
4	Spanish (es) Gavia		748
5	Italian (it) Gavia (zoologia)		567
6	Finnish (fi) Kuikat		516
7	Chinese (zh) 潜鸟属		260
8	Lithuanian (lt) Narai		246
9	Dutch (nl) Gavia (geslacht)		237
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гагара		192

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Loon		370
2	Russian (ru) Гагары		55
3	Spanish (es) Gavia		38
4	Danish (da) Lommer		37
5	Finnish (fi) Kuikat		35
6	Italian (it) Gavia (zoologia)		26
7	Turkish (tr) Dalgıç kuşu		22
8	Swedish (sv) Lommar		21
9	Chinese (zh) 潜鸟属		20
10	Japanese (ja) アビ属		16

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) Loon		2
2	Russian (ru) Гагары		1
3	Serbian (sr) Морски гњурци		1
4	Arabic (ar) غواص (طائر)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qaqar		0
6	Belarusian (be) Гагаравыя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Гмуркачи		0
8	Catalan (ca) Gavia		0
9	Danish (da) Lommer		0
10	Greek (el) Κόλυμβος		0

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

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