Vampire squid

Quality:

Vampire squid - species of mollusc. This taxon is the 1976^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 475^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Vampire squid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 8 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 8606^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 475^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1976^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Vampire squid”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8606^th place) and edited by 973 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Vampire squid is on the 475^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1976^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #420 in October 2007
• Global: #9577 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #520 in May 2009
• Global: #35441 in February 2009

There are 33 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) Vampire squid		78.1739
2	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		39.3662
3	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		35.8822
4	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		34.014
5	Hungarian (hu) Vámpírtintahal		32.716
6	Dutch (nl) Vampierinktvis		30.9016
7	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		29.1851
8	Finnish (fi) Vampyyritursas		28.3079
9	Malay (ms) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		27.8226
10	Swedish (sv) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		27.4882

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vampire squid		3 190 476
2	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		429 669
3	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		361 617
4	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		244 357
5	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		238 033
6	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		210 850
7	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		119 207
8	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		94 141
9	Portuguese (pt) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		92 083
10	Chinese (zh) 吸血烏賊		76 215

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) Vampire squid		20 978
2	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		2 362
3	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		2 095
4	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		1 172
5	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		1 162
6	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		1 092
7	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		717
8	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		652
9	Chinese (zh) 吸血烏賊		570
10	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		535

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vampire squid		375
2	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		92
3	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		73
4	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		55
5	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		49
6	Dutch (nl) Vampierinktvis		44
7	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		33
8	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		26
9	Portuguese (pt) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		25
10	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		19

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) Vampire squid		1
2	Arabic (ar) حبار مصاص الدماء		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Дълбоководен вампиров калмар		0
5	Catalan (ca) Calamar vampir		0
6	Czech (cs) Vampýrovka hlubinná		0
7	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		0
8	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		0
9	Basque (eu) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		0
10	Persian (fa) ماهی مرکب جهنمی		0

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

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