Pterosaur

Quality:

Pterosaur - order of reptiles (fossil). This taxon is the 501^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 432^nd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Pterosaur” in Simple English Wikipedia has 58.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 9 sections.

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 6197^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 432^nd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 501^st most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 8920^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8239^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pterosaur”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6197^th place) and edited by 2510 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pterosaur is on the 432^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 501^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 99 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13667 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in December 2007
• Global: #1471 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1111 in January 2026
• Global: #5593 in June 2015

There are 46 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) Pterosaur		100
2	Turkish (tr) Teruzor		100
3	Croatian (hr) Pterosauri		100
4	Italian (it) Pterosauria		97.9201
5	Russian (ru) Птерозавры		96.4608
6	Vietnamese (vi) Dực long		93.9798
7	Dutch (nl) Pterosauriërs		92.9146
8	Korean (ko) 익룡		87.1682
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Pterosauri		86.1657
10	Spanish (es) Pterosauria		82.4047

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pterosaur		9 813 732
2	German (de) Flugsaurier		1 432 877
3	Spanish (es) Pterosauria		1 088 446
4	Japanese (ja) 翼竜		797 669
5	Russian (ru) Птерозавры		748 724
6	French (fr) Pterosauria		556 058
7	Italian (it) Pterosauria		490 178
8	Portuguese (pt) Pterossauro		441 106
9	Chinese (zh) 翼龍目		416 922
10	Polish (pl) Pterozaury		358 851

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) Pterosaur		34 547
2	German (de) Flugsaurier		4 428
3	Korean (ko) 익룡		3 758
4	Russian (ru) Птерозавры		3 372
5	Spanish (es) Pterosauria		2 967
6	Chinese (zh) 翼龍目		2 027
7	Japanese (ja) 翼竜		2 006
8	French (fr) Pterosauria		1 997
9	Italian (it) Pterosauria		1 619
10	Portuguese (pt) Pterossauro		1 176

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pterosaur		794
2	German (de) Flugsaurier		212
3	Dutch (nl) Pterosauriërs		153
4	French (fr) Pterosauria		146
5	Italian (it) Pterosauria		111
6	Russian (ru) Птерозавры		88
7	Hebrew (he) פטרוזאוריה		73
8	Spanish (es) Pterosauria		71
9	Japanese (ja) 翼竜		64
10	Chinese (zh) 翼龍目		49

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) Pterosaur		10
2	Korean (ko) 익룡		3
3	Croatian (hr) Pterosauri		2
4	Italian (it) Pterosauria		2
5	Greek (el) Πτερόσαυρος		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Flugsaŭroj		1
7	Persian (fa) پتروسورها		1
8	Hebrew (he) פטרוזאוריה		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Pterossauro		1
10	Serbian (sr) Птеросаури		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information