Sperm whale

Quality:

Sperm whale - largest species of toothed whale. This taxon is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 580^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sperm whale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 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 6315^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 580^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4668^th most popular in all topics.

The 3924^th most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 7157^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5882^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5286^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sperm whale”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6315^th place) and edited by 3969 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3924^th place).

Sperm whale is on the 580^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6922 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #124 in March 2012
• Global: #664 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3493 in February 2012
• Global: #1150 in January 2012

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) Sperm whale		100
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		100
3	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		100
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		99.6641
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		98.523
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		98.4501
8	French (fr) Grand cachalot		97.985
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cá nhà táng		90.5801
10	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		76.3685

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sperm whale		17 525 668
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		3 456 644
3	German (de) Pottwal		3 453 374
4	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		2 833 371
5	French (fr) Grand cachalot		2 185 061
6	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		1 882 666
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		1 621 026
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		1 394 157
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		874 234
10	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		751 527

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) Sperm whale		66 232
2	Russian (ru) Кашалот		15 342
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		10 816
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		10 290
5	German (de) Pottwal		9 599
6	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		6 157
7	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		5 344
8	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		4 519
9	Chinese (zh) 抹香鲸		4 191
10	Polish (pl) Kaszalot spermacetowy		2 841

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sperm whale		1 176
2	German (de) Pottwal		343
3	French (fr) Grand cachalot		255
4	Dutch (nl) Potvis		196
5	Russian (ru) Кашалот		157
6	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		152
7	Italian (it) Physeter macrocephalus		152
8	Japanese (ja) マッコウクジラ		104
9	Portuguese (pt) Cachalote		94
10	Hebrew (he) ראשתן גדול-ראש		93

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	Arabic (ar) حوت العنبر		4
2	English (en) Sperm whale		4
3	Spanish (es) Physeter macrocephalus		4
4	French (fr) Grand cachalot		4
5	German (de) Pottwal		3
6	Persian (fa) نهنگ عنبر		3
7	Russian (ru) Кашалот		2
8	Galician (gl) Cachalote		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Nagy ámbráscet		1
10	Swedish (sv) Kaskelot		1

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

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