Plankton

Quality:

Plankton - organisms that are in the water column and are incapable of swimming against current. Article “Plankton” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8651^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9244^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6306^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Plankton”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2628 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9244^th place).

The article is cited 211 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17207 times in all languages (9711^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #369 in September 2021
• Global: #422 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3519 in March 2015
• Global: #1329 in June 2015

There are 53 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	English (en) Plankton		83.3602
2	Catalan (ca) Plàncton		76.061
3	Estonian (et) Plankton		71.5901
4	French (fr) Plancton		58.4017
5	German (de) Plankton		52.2206
6	Chinese (zh) 浮游生物		41.17
7	Spanish (es) Plancton		41.0573
8	Persian (fa) پلانکتون		39.2097
9	Tamil (ta) மிதவைவாழி		38.9581
10	Galician (gl) Plancto		38.8032

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plankton		7 558 377
2	Spanish (es) Plancton		3 036 082
3	German (de) Plankton		1 835 502
4	Russian (ru) Планктон		1 548 979
5	Japanese (ja) プランクトン		1 131 644
6	French (fr) Plancton		1 001 388
7	Portuguese (pt) Plâncton		870 316
8	Italian (it) Plancton		790 229
9	Polish (pl) Plankton		789 468
10	Indonesian (id) Plankton		409 058

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) Plankton		22 418
2	German (de) Plankton		5 952
3	Russian (ru) Планктон		4 323
4	French (fr) Plancton		3 961
5	Japanese (ja) プランクトン		3 028
6	Spanish (es) Plancton		2 895
7	Italian (it) Plancton		2 355
8	Chinese (zh) 浮游生物		1 186
9	Hebrew (he) פלנקטון		1 097
10	Portuguese (pt) Plâncton		999

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plankton		639
2	German (de) Plankton		244
3	French (fr) Plancton		165
4	Spanish (es) Plancton		129
5	Italian (it) Plancton		106
6	Russian (ru) Планктон		83
7	Dutch (nl) Plankton		78
8	Hebrew (he) פלנקטון		73
9	Japanese (ja) プランクトン		65
10	Hungarian (hu) Plankton		64

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) Plankton		2
2	Spanish (es) Plancton		2
3	Catalan (ca) Plàncton		1
4	Finnish (fi) Plankton		1
5	Chinese (zh) 浮游生物		1
6	Arabic (ar) عوالق		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Plankton		0
8	Belarusian (be) Планктон		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Планктон		0
10	Czech (cs) Plankton		0

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

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