Sponge (animal)

Quality:

Porifera - phylum of animals. This taxon is the 133^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 121^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sponge (animal)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 66.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 2628^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1891^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 121^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6510^th most popular in all topics.

The 4370^th most popular in AI.

The 133^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2145^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4702^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Sponge (animal)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4702^nd place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sponge (animal)”, its content was written by 59 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1891^st place) and edited by 3766 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4370^th place).

Porifera is on the 121^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 133^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 49758 times in all languages (3186^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #117 in November 2014
• Global: #106 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #439 in March 2015
• Global: #2385 in April 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	Russian (ru) Губки		100
2	English (en) Sponge		96.018
3	Estonian (et) Käsnad		96.001
4	Malay (ms) Bunga karang		95
5	Basque (eu) Belaki		81.25
6	Spanish (es) Porifera		77.3463
7	Slovenian (sl) Spužve		75.4612
8	French (fr) Porifera		75.4328
9	Simple English (simple) Sponge (animal)		66.7312
10	Slovak (sk) Hubky		60.9022

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sponge		12 754 687
2	Spanish (es) Porifera		6 028 283
3	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		2 246 102
4	Russian (ru) Губки		1 607 030
5	German (de) Schwämme		1 468 651
6	Indonesian (id) Porifera		1 187 751
7	French (fr) Porifera		1 053 699
8	Italian (it) Porifera		939 132
9	Polish (pl) Gąbki		911 034
10	Thai (th) ฟองน้ำ		748 894

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) Sponge		36 169
2	Spanish (es) Porifera		8 847
3	Russian (ru) Губки		4 647
4	Japanese (ja) 海綿動物		4 290
5	German (de) Schwämme		3 341
6	Chinese (zh) 海绵		3 012
7	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		2 491
8	French (fr) Porifera		2 420
9	Italian (it) Porifera		2 103
10	Simple English (simple) Sponge (animal)		1 898

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sponge		1 096
2	German (de) Schwämme		293
3	French (fr) Porifera		201
4	Spanish (es) Porifera		184
5	Portuguese (pt) Porifera		149
6	Italian (it) Porifera		147
7	Russian (ru) Губки		145
8	Dutch (nl) Sponzen		122
9	Polish (pl) Gąbki		100
10	Hungarian (hu) Szivacsok		73

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) Sponge		2
2	Spanish (es) Porifera		2
3	Polish (pl) Gąbki		2
4	Russian (ru) Губки		2
5	Catalan (ca) Porífers		1
6	Simple English (simple) Sponge (animal)		1
7	Arabic (ar) إسفنجيات		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Süngərlər		0
9	Belarusian (be) Губкі		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Водни гъби		0

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

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