Megalodon

Quality:

55

Megalodon - extinct species of shark. This taxon is the 26^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 225^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Megalodon" in Simple English Wikipedia has 55.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 36 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 4748^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5544^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 225^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1758^th most popular in all topics.

The 4914^th most popular in AI.

The 26^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3600^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2428^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8400^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Megalodon", its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5544^th place) and edited by 3474 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4914^th place).

Megalodon is on the 225^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 26^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1303 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): #1156 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfogú cápa		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		99.9683
4	Czech (cs) Megalodon		99.3901
5	Indonesian (id) Megalodon		98.7135
6	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		98.2609
7	English (en) Megalodon		98.2104
8	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		93.3126
9	German (de) Megalodon		91.6716
10	Arabic (ar) ميجالودون		90.5268

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Megalodon		28 165 944
2	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		6 639 784
3	German (de) Megalodon		5 501 824
4	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		4 806 320
5	French (fr) Mégalodon		4 129 129
6	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		3 302 154
7	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		2 584 394
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		2 111 304
9	Polish (pl) Megalodon		1 237 922
10	Chinese (zh) 巨齿鲨		957 316

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		120 485
2	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		24 871
3	German (de) Megalodon		24 516
4	French (fr) Mégalodon		20 193
5	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		18 557
6	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		12 771
7	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		11 062
8	Turkish (tr) Megalodon		8 398
9	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		8 055
10	Polish (pl) Megalodon		6 720

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Megalodon		925
2	French (fr) Mégalodon		299
3	German (de) Megalodon		269
4	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		193
5	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		172
6	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		172
7	Dutch (nl) Megalodon		137
8	Hebrew (he) מגלודון		108
9	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		108
10	Swedish (sv) Megalodon		85

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	Persian (fa) مگالودون		4
2	French (fr) Mégalodon		4
3	English (en) Megalodon		3
4	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		3
5	Spanish (es) Carcharocles megalodon		2
6	Finnish (fi) Megalodon		2
7	Turkish (tr) Megalodon		2
8	Hindi (hi) मेगालोडोन		1
9	Korean (ko) 메갈로돈		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		1

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

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