Warning colouration

Aposematism - family of antipredator adaptations in which a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators, such as bright colors or patterns indicating that an organism is dangerous or unpalatable. Article “Warning colouration” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 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.

Since the creation of article “Warning colouration”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 606 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2482 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #803 in October 2023
• Global: #21427 in October 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #517 in December 2016
• Global: #19711 in May 2015

There are 35 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) Aposematism		95.2471
2	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		77.4584
3	Galician (gl) Aposematismo		72.8416
4	Chinese (zh) 警戒作用		62.2895
5	Latin (la) Aposematismus		55.1038
6	Simple English (simple) Warning colouration		44.4041
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Varselfarge		36.4046
8	Malay (ms) Aposematisme		35.2093
9	Swedish (sv) Aposematism		30.3465
10	Turkish (tr) Aposematizm		30.1503

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Warning colouration" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aposematism		3 020 432
2	Spanish (es) Aposematismo		419 789
3	Japanese (ja) 警告色		342 523
4	Italian (it) Aposematismo		246 483
5	German (de) Aposematismus		201 804
6	French (fr) Aposématisme		134 159
7	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		107 350
8	Polish (pl) Ubarwienie ostrzegawcze		57 691
9	Georgian (ka) გამაფრთხილებელი შეფერილობა		56 656
10	Simple English (simple) Warning colouration		46 956

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Warning colouration" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aposematism		16 779
2	Japanese (ja) 警告色		1 360
3	Spanish (es) Aposematismo		1 131
4	Italian (it) Aposematismo		1 092
5	German (de) Aposematismus		1 080
6	French (fr) Aposématisme		791
7	Simple English (simple) Warning colouration		641
8	Russian (ru) Апосематизм		327
9	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		307
10	Chinese (zh) 警戒作用		256

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

Language versions of the article "Warning colouration" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aposematism		185
2	Italian (it) Aposematismo		53
3	French (fr) Aposématisme		41
4	German (de) Aposematismus		35
5	Japanese (ja) 警告色		35
6	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		32
7	Spanish (es) Aposematismo		29
8	Hebrew (he) אפוסמטיות		27
9	Dutch (nl) Aposematische kleuring		17
10	Korean (ko) 경계색		14

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

Language versions of the article "Warning colouration" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		2
2	English (en) Aposematism		1
3	Hebrew (he) אפוסמטיות		1
4	Arabic (ar) تحذير لوني		0
5	Catalan (ca) Aposematisme		0
6	Czech (cs) Aposematismus		0
7	Danish (da) Aposematisme		0
8	German (de) Aposematismus		0
9	Greek (el) Αποσηματισμός		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Aposematismo		0

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

Language versions of the article "Warning colouration" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Aposematism		611
2	French (fr) Aposématisme		197
3	Spanish (es) Aposematismo		164
4	Japanese (ja) 警告色		151
5	Italian (it) Aposematismo		143
6	Chinese (zh) 警戒作用		135
7	German (de) Aposematismus		126
8	Ukrainian (uk) Апосематизм		107
9	Portuguese (pt) Apossematismo		93
10	Korean (ko) 경계색		78

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تحذير لوني
ca	Catalan Aposematisme
cs	Czech Aposematismus
da	Danish Aposematisme
de	German Aposematismus
el	Greek Αποσηματισμός
en	English Aposematism
eo	Esperanto Aposematismo
es	Spanish Aposematismo
et	Estonian Hoiatusvärvus
eu	Basque Aposematismo
fa	Persian رنگ هشدار
fr	French Aposématisme
gl	Galician Aposematismo
he	Hebrew אפוסמטיות
id	Indonesian Aposematisme
it	Italian Aposematismo
ja	Japanese 警告色
ka	Georgian გამაფრთხილებელი შეფერილობა
ko	Korean 경계색
la	Latin Aposematismus
ms	Malay Aposematisme
nl	Dutch Aposematische kleuring
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Varselfarge
no	Norwegian Varselfarge
pl	Polish Ubarwienie ostrzegawcze
pt	Portuguese Apossematismo
ru	Russian Апосематизм
simple	Simple English Warning colouration
sl	Slovenian Aposematizem
sv	Swedish Aposematism
tr	Turkish Aposematizm
uk	Ukrainian Апосематизм
vi	Vietnamese Tín hiệu xua đuổi
zh	Chinese 警戒作用

Best Rank

Simple English: #517 12.2016

Global: #19711 05.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #803 10.2023

Global: #21427 10.2019

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