Megalodon

Quality:

Megalodon - extinct species of shark. This taxon is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 228^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Megalodon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 55.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish 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 4802^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4777^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 228^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1778^th most popular in all topics.

The 4884^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3315^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7306^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Megalodon”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4777^th place) and edited by 3582 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4884^th place).

Megalodon is on the 228^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1364 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #74 in November 2018
• Global: #198 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1155 in September 2013
• Global: #15 in August 2018

There are 52 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	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		100
2	Czech (cs) Megalodon		100
3	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfogú cápa		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		99.9454
5	Indonesian (id) Megalodon		98.5362
6	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		98.2609
7	English (en) Megalodon		97.7574
8	German (de) Megalodon		97.6386
9	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		93.2297
10	Arabic (ar) ميجالودون		90.2472

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Megalodon		29 107 873
2	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		6 815 204
3	German (de) Megalodon		5 678 421
4	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		5 063 638
5	French (fr) Mégalodon		4 268 529
6	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		3 396 245
7	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		2 689 552
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		2 200 313
9	Polish (pl) Megalodon		1 300 507
10	Chinese (zh) 巨齿鲨		1 007 764

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) Megalodon		86 163
2	German (de) Megalodon		18 866
3	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		17 802
4	French (fr) Mégalodon		14 464
5	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		13 526
6	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		10 946
7	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		9 529
8	Polish (pl) Megalodon		6 685
9	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		6 131
10	Chinese (zh) 巨齿鲨		4 756

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Megalodon		943
2	French (fr) Mégalodon		309
3	German (de) Megalodon		274
4	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		200
5	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		174
6	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		173
7	Dutch (nl) Megalodon		141
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		119
9	Hebrew (he) מגלודון		115
10	Swedish (sv) Megalodon		86

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	Hebrew (he) מגלודון		6
2	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		4
3	English (en) Megalodon		2
4	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		2
5	Dutch (nl) Megalodon		2
6	Arabic (ar) ميجالودون		1
7	Catalan (ca) Tauró de grans dents		1
8	German (de) Megalodon		1
9	French (fr) Mégalodon		1
10	Korean (ko) 메갈로돈		1

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

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