Transitional fossil

Quality:

Transitional fossil - fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group. Article "Transitional fossil" in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article "Transitional fossil", its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1084 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3051 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1595 in April 2015
• Global: #8951 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3907 in April 2013
• Global: #10053 in December 2014

There are 30 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	Chinese (zh) 過渡化石		87.1974
2	English (en) Transitional fossil		83.5121
3	Thai (th) ซากดึกดำบรรพ์ช่วงเปลี่ยนสภาพ		83.0552
4	Turkish (tr) Geçiş fosili		73.8053
5	Indonesian (id) Fosil peralihan		64.9195
6	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil de transição		59.0263
7	Hebrew (he) מאובן מעבר		58.8513
8	Arabic (ar) حفرية انتقالية		37.72
9	Ukrainian (uk) Перехідна форма		33.0545
10	Hungarian (hu) Átmeneti fosszíliák		31.7066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transitional fossil		2 905 496
2	Japanese (ja) ミッシングリンク		942 823
3	German (de) Mosaikform		604 202
4	Russian (ru) Переходная форма		277 862
5	Polish (pl) Formy przejściowe		235 945
6	French (fr) Forme transitionnelle		138 628
7	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil de transição		116 350
8	Spanish (es) Forma transicional		102 261
9	Dutch (nl) Fossiele overgangsvorm		50 139
10	Indonesian (id) Fosil peralihan		36 156

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) Transitional fossil		5 639
2	Japanese (ja) ミッシングリンク		1 068
3	German (de) Mosaikform		618
4	Russian (ru) Переходная форма		458
5	Simple English (simple) Transitional fossil		453
6	Polish (pl) Formy przejściowe		247
7	French (fr) Forme transitionnelle		245
8	Chinese (zh) 過渡化石		243
9	Spanish (es) Forma transicional		204
10	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil de transição		144

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Transitional fossil		465
2	German (de) Mosaikform		128
3	French (fr) Forme transitionnelle		67
4	Japanese (ja) ミッシングリンク		51
5	Hebrew (he) מאובן מעבר		43
6	Dutch (nl) Fossiele overgangsvorm		39
7	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil de transição		35
8	Polish (pl) Formy przejściowe		34
9	Russian (ru) Переходная форма		32
10	Danish (da) Overgangsform (fossil)		24

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	German (de) Mosaikform		2
2	Arabic (ar) حفرية انتقالية		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Преходен фосил		0
4	Catalan (ca) Fòssil de transició		0
5	Danish (da) Overgangsform (fossil)		0
6	English (en) Transitional fossil		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Transira fosilio		0
8	Spanish (es) Forma transicional		0
9	Persian (fa) فسیل انتقالی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Välimuotofossiili		0

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

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