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 59^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Shark” in Simple English Wikipedia has 58.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 15 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 1382^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 501^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 59^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1510^th most popular in all topics.

The 999^th most popular in AI.

The 18^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 1960^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4538^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2862^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Shark”, its content was written by 113 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (501^st place) and edited by 6363 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (999^th place).

Shark is on the 59^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 23768 times in all languages (6909^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): #484 in December 2014
• Global: #696 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, 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	Bulgarian (bg) Акулообразни		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		96.1155
3	Greek (el) Καρχαρίας		96.0884
4	German (de) Haie		94.9454
5	English (en) Shark		93.7135
6	Czech (cs) Žraloci		93.3141
7	Esperanto (eo) Ŝarko		90.0025
8	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		89.541
9	Russian (ru) Акулы		89.198
10	Basque (eu) Marrazo		85.9668

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shark		24 622 912
2	Spanish (es) Selachimorpha		6 842 207
3	German (de) Haie		5 287 752
4	Russian (ru) Акулы		5 178 817
5	French (fr) Requin		4 545 731
6	Japanese (ja) サメ		4 173 880
7	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		3 614 504
8	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		2 623 496
9	Polish (pl) Rekiny		1 818 166
10	Chinese (zh) 鲨鱼		1 633 953

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		70 304
2	Russian (ru) Акулы		15 258
3	Spanish (es) Selachimorpha		11 767
4	German (de) Haie		10 518
5	Japanese (ja) サメ		8 994
6	French (fr) Requin		8 547
7	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		6 756
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		6 585
9	Chinese (zh) 鲨鱼		6 283
10	Polish (pl) Rekiny		2 816

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shark		1 723
2	French (fr) Requin		427
3	German (de) Haie		425
4	Spanish (es) Selachimorpha		347
5	Dutch (nl) Haaien		277
6	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		253
7	Russian (ru) Акулы		231
8	Japanese (ja) サメ		187
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão		167
10	Swedish (sv) Hajar		166

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		16
2	French (fr) Requin		5
3	Spanish (es) Selachimorpha		4
4	Chinese (zh) 鲨鱼		4
5	Turkish (tr) Köpekbalığı		2
6	Catalan (ca) Taurons		1
7	Czech (cs) Žraloci		1
8	Hebrew (he) דמויי כריש		1
9	Italian (it) Selachimorpha		1
10	Russian (ru) Акулы		1

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

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