Shark

Quality:

Shark - clade of predatory cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes). This taxon is the 18^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 58^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Shark” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 21 sections.

This article has the best quality in Bulgarian 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 1326^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 492^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 58^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1543^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1016^th most popular in AI.

The 18^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3161^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2267^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5875^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3928^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Shark” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2267^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3928^th place).

Since the creation of article “Shark”, its content was written by 117 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (492^nd place) and edited by 6408 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1016^th place).

Shark is on the 58^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 18^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 278 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24442 times in all languages (6913^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #26 in March 2017
• Global: #20 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #287 in January 2026
• Global: #699 in April 2008

There are 54 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	Bulgarian (bg) Акулообразни		98.6733
2	Spanish (es) Selachii		97.9888
3	Greek (el) Καρχαρίας		96.772
4	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		96.056
5	German (de) Haie		95.287
6	English (en) Shark		93.8156
7	Czech (cs) Žraloci		92.5823
8	Esperanto (eo) Ŝarko		89.7121
9	Russian (ru) Акулы		89.5695
10	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		89.1852

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shark		25 445 789
2	Spanish (es) Selachii		7 024 761
3	Russian (ru) Акулы		5 795 610
4	German (de) Haie		5 421 429
5	French (fr) Requin		4 660 695
6	Japanese (ja) サメ		4 273 242
7	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		3 685 778
8	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		2 693 069
9	Polish (pl) Rekiny		1 855 803
10	Chinese (zh) 鲨鱼		1 682 790

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) Shark		55 992
2	Russian (ru) Акулы		10 972
3	German (de) Haie		9 307
4	Japanese (ja) サメ		8 083
5	French (fr) Requin		7 098
6	Spanish (es) Selachii		6 776
7	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		5 791
8	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		5 165
9	Chinese (zh) 鲨鱼		3 949
10	Polish (pl) Rekiny		2 749

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shark		1 752
2	French (fr) Requin		437
3	German (de) Haie		428
4	Spanish (es) Selachii		359
5	Dutch (nl) Haaien		278
6	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		259
7	Russian (ru) Акулы		235
8	Japanese (ja) サメ		196
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		172
10	Swedish (sv) Hajar		168

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) Shark		7
2	Korean (ko) 상어		6
3	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		4
4	Spanish (es) Selachii		3
5	Czech (cs) Žraloci		2
6	Galician (gl) Tiburón		2
7	Russian (ru) Акулы		2
8	Catalan (ca) Taurons		1
9	Basque (eu) Marrazo		1
10	French (fr) Requin		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