Vampire squid

Quality:

Vampire squid - species of mollusc. This taxon is the 1954^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 520^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Vampire squid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 8492^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 520^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1954^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2897^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Vampire squid” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2897^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Vampire squid”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8492^nd place) and edited by 1004 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Vampire squid is on the 520^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1954^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 377 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #418 in October 2007
• Global: #9584 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #522 in May 2009
• Global: #35576 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, 2026 (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		78.3732
2	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		37.9577
3	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		34.8952
4	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		33.8248
5	Hungarian (hu) Vámpírtintahal		32.6631
6	Dutch (nl) Vampierinktvis		30.8349
7	Finnish (fi) Vampyyritursas		28.2966
8	Malay (ms) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		28.1961
9	Swedish (sv) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		27.0292
10	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		26.6744

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vampire squid		3 345 105
2	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		484 701
3	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		377 388
4	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		258 950
5	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		251 979
6	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		226 037
7	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		126 038
8	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		103 247
9	Portuguese (pt) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		97 735
10	Chinese (zh) 吸血烏賊		83 362

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		11 916
2	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		1 672
3	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		1 166
4	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		1 147
5	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		1 104
6	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		1 077
7	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		614
8	Chinese (zh) 吸血烏賊		545
9	Portuguese (pt) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		519
10	Polish (pl) Wampirzyca piekielna		499

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		386
2	German (de) Vampirtintenfisch		92
3	Russian (ru) Адский вампир		75
4	French (fr) Vampire des abysses		58
5	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		51
6	Dutch (nl) Vampierinktvis		44
7	Spanish (es) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		34
8	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		27
9	Portuguese (pt) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		26
10	Japanese (ja) コウモリダコ		20

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	Catalan (ca) Calamar vampir		1
2	English (en) Vampire squid		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Vámpírtintahal		1
4	Italian (it) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		1
5	Simple English (simple) Vampire squid		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Vampirski ligenj		1
7	Arabic (ar) حبار مصاص الدماء		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Vampyroteuthis infernalis		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Дълбоководен вампиров калмар		0
10	Czech (cs) Vampýrovka hlubinná		0

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

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