Species description

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Species description

Quality:

First valid description - formal description of a new taxon. Article “Species description” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Species description”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 252 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 45792 times in all languages (3493rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #15883 in May 2023
  • Global: #64805 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #22295 in May 2024
  • Global: #96760 in April 2024

There are 24 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Species description
36.571
2German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
33.5466
3Portuguese (pt)
Descrição de espécies
27.9112
4Russian (ru)
Описание вида
27.4425
5Estonian (et)
Liikide kirjeldamine
23.8902
6Catalan (ca)
Descripció d'una espècie
21.9854
7Indonesian (id)
Deskripsi spesies
21.839
8Czech (cs)
Popis druhu
19.3598
9Persian (fa)
توصیف گونه
17.3255
10Chinese (zh)
物种描述
16.7675
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Species description" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Species description
652 819
2German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
136 526
3Japanese (ja)
記載
91 853
4French (fr)
Description des espèces
11 659
5Portuguese (pt)
Descrição de espécies
10 885
6Spanish (es)
Descripción de especie
9 881
7Norwegian (no)
Artsbeskrivelse
8 658
8Arabic (ar)
وصف الأنواع الحية
8 138
9Indonesian (id)
Deskripsi spesies
7 494
10Russian (ru)
Описание вида
6 909
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Species description" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Species description
4 666
2German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
476
3Japanese (ja)
記載
352
4Simple English (simple)
Species description
83
5Russian (ru)
Описание вида
82
6Portuguese (pt)
Descrição de espécies
81
7Esperanto (eo)
Unua priskribo
75
8French (fr)
Description des espèces
61
9Chinese (zh)
物种描述
55
10Indonesian (id)
Deskripsi spesies
39
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Species description" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Species description
109
2German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
53
3French (fr)
Description des espèces
13
4Japanese (ja)
記載
10
5Norwegian (no)
Artsbeskrivelse
10
6Portuguese (pt)
Descrição de espécies
9
7Arabic (ar)
وصف الأنواع الحية
7
8Esperanto (eo)
Unua priskribo
5
9Spanish (es)
Descripción de especie
5
10Catalan (ca)
Descripció d'una espècie
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Species description" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Species description
1
2Arabic (ar)
وصف الأنواع الحية
0
3Catalan (ca)
Descripció d'una espècie
0
4Czech (cs)
Popis druhu
0
5German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Unua priskribo
0
7Spanish (es)
Descripción de especie
0
8Estonian (et)
Liikide kirjeldamine
0
9Basque (eu)
Espezie deskribapen
0
10Persian (fa)
توصیف گونه
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Species description" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Species description
25 321
2German (de)
Erstbeschreibung
14 004
3Spanish (es)
Descripción de especie
2 548
4French (fr)
Description des espèces
668
5Esperanto (eo)
Unua priskribo
622
6Japanese (ja)
記載
585
7Portuguese (pt)
Descrição de espécies
531
8Chinese (zh)
物种描述
314
9Czech (cs)
Popis druhu
271
10Catalan (ca)
Descripció d'una espècie
234
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
وصف الأنواع الحية
caCatalan
Descripció d'una espècie
csCzech
Popis druhu
deGerman
Erstbeschreibung
enEnglish
Species description
eoEsperanto
Unua priskribo
esSpanish
Descripción de especie
etEstonian
Liikide kirjeldamine
euBasque
Espezie deskribapen
faPersian
توصیف گونه
fiFinnish
Lajikuvaus
frFrench
Description des espèces
idIndonesian
Deskripsi spesies
jaJapanese
記載
koKorean
종 기재
msMalay
Penerangan spesies
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Artsskildring
noNorwegian
Artsbeskrivelse
ptPortuguese
Descrição de espécies
roRomanian
Descrierea speciilor
ruRussian
Описание вида
simpleSimple English
Species description
zhChinese
物种描述
zhminnanMin Nan
Chéng ê kì-chài

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#22295
05.2024
Global:
#96760
04.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#15883
05.2023
Global:
#64805
04.2018

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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