Whale shark

Quality:

Whale shark - species of fish. This taxon is the 145^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 299^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Whale shark” in Simple English Wikipedia has 68.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 14 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 6425^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3332^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 299^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6959^th most popular in all topics.

The 6352^nd most popular in AI.

The 145^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 263^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2387^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6545^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7199^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Whale shark” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2387^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7199^th place).

Since the creation of article “Whale shark”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3332^nd place) and edited by 3214 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6352^nd place).

Whale shark is on the 299^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 145^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #238 in February 2007
• Global: #547 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #263 in June 2026
• Global: #2247 in February 2012

There are 51 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) Whale shark		99.2017
2	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		94.901
3	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		94.6811
4	Armenian (hy) Կետաշնաձուկ		92.3002
5	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		89.8943
6	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		89.1346
7	Hungarian (hu) Cetcápa		84.9508
8	Estonian (et) Vaalhai		83.3685
9	Malay (ms) Yu paus		79.7885
10	Arabic (ar) قرش حوتي		69.5554

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whale shark		14 252 594
2	German (de) Walhai		2 965 626
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		2 808 193
4	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		2 285 522
5	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		1 933 308
6	French (fr) Requin-baleine		1 863 475
7	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		1 090 512
8	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		1 055 435
9	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		982 941
10	Polish (pl) Rekin wielorybi		804 357

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) Whale shark		56 377
2	German (de) Walhai		11 750
3	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		10 421
4	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		6 864
5	French (fr) Requin-baleine		6 152
6	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		5 702
7	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		5 447
8	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		4 354
9	Portuguese (pt) Tubarão-baleia		3 856
10	Simple English (simple) Whale shark		2 295

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whale shark		945
2	German (de) Walhai		231
3	French (fr) Requin-baleine		207
4	Dutch (nl) Walvishaai		170
5	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		139
6	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		131
7	Japanese (ja) ジンベエザメ		107
8	Russian (ru) Китовая акула		104
9	Chinese (zh) 鯨鯊		97
10	Danish (da) Hvalhaj		76

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) Whale shark		7
2	Catalan (ca) Tauró balena		4
3	Italian (it) Rhincodon typus		3
4	Czech (cs) Žralok obrovský		2
5	Spanish (es) Rhincodon typus		2
6	Arabic (ar) قرش حوتي		1
7	Basque (eu) Marrazo balea		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Cetcápa		1
9	Korean (ko) 고래상어		1
10	Simple English (simple) Whale shark		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information