Musk ox

Quality:

Ovibos moschatus - a bovid of the Arctic realm known for its thick coat of hair and strong odor. This taxon is the 775^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 717^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Musk ox” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 717^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 775^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8700^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Musk ox”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1819 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ovibos moschatus is on the 717^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 775^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5696 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #834 in June 2013
• Global: #2148 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4743 in April 2013
• Global: #10689 in December 2022

There are 48 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	Catalan (ca) Bou mesquer		97.2232
2	English (en) Muskox		96.2618
3	Russian (ru) Овцебык		94.1906
4	Swedish (sv) Myskoxe		75.8283
5	Turkish (tr) Misk sığırı		62.7119
6	German (de) Moschusochse		60.9981
7	Finnish (fi) Myskihärkä		60.1035
8	Norwegian (no) Moskusfe		58.0664
9	Spanish (es) Ovibos moschatus		54.1243
10	Latin (la) Ovibos moschatus		50.7229

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Muskox		5 142 722
2	Russian (ru) Овцебык		1 187 282
3	German (de) Moschusochse		1 045 603
4	Spanish (es) Ovibos moschatus		591 595
5	Swedish (sv) Myskoxe		549 824
6	French (fr) Bœuf musqué		530 684
7	Norwegian (no) Moskusfe		523 268
8	Polish (pl) Piżmowół arktyczny		490 207
9	Italian (it) Ovibos moschatus		303 995
10	Japanese (ja) ジャコウウシ		254 888

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) Muskox		25 389
2	Russian (ru) Овцебык		4 763
3	German (de) Moschusochse		4 276
4	Norwegian (no) Moskusfe		2 414
5	Spanish (es) Ovibos moschatus		2 178
6	French (fr) Bœuf musqué		2 151
7	Japanese (ja) ジャコウウシ		1 794
8	Swedish (sv) Myskoxe		1 623
9	Italian (it) Ovibos moschatus		1 304
10	Polish (pl) Piżmowół arktyczny		1 299

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Muskox		360
2	German (de) Moschusochse		207
3	Russian (ru) Овцебык		120
4	French (fr) Bœuf musqué		112
5	Norwegian (no) Moskusfe		108
6	Dutch (nl) Muskusos		91
7	Swedish (sv) Myskoxe		78
8	Italian (it) Ovibos moschatus		74
9	Danish (da) Moskusokse		52
10	Spanish (es) Ovibos moschatus		51

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) Muskox		5
2	Catalan (ca) Bou mesquer		1
3	Finnish (fi) Myskihärkä		1
4	Serbian (sr) Мошусно говече		1
5	Arabic (ar) ثور المسك		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Müşk öküzü		0
7	Belarusian (be) Аўцабык		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Овцебик		0
9	Czech (cs) Pižmoň severní		0
10	Danish (da) Moskusokse		0

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

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