Whaling

Quality:

Whaling - hunting of whales. Article “Whaling” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7336^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7511^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Whaling”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2991 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7336^th place).

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9821 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1017 in June 2007
• Global: #155 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4989 in June 2010
• Global: #7540 in January 2008

There are 45 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) Whaling		89.4819
2	German (de) Walfang		87.5269
3	Georgian (ka) ვეშაპსარეწი		67.3657
4	Latin (la) Balaenatio		66.8016
5	Chinese (zh) 捕鯨		62.4203
6	Catalan (ca) Caça de balenes		54.7716
7	Japanese (ja) 捕鯨		48.5854
8	Lithuanian (lt) Banginių medžioklė		48.2802
9	Danish (da) Hvalfangst		47.3645
10	Malay (ms) Pemburuan paus		46.1621

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whaling		5 432 541
2	German (de) Walfang		1 527 711
3	Japanese (ja) 捕鯨		1 259 560
4	Russian (ru) Китобойный промысел		821 301
5	Spanish (es) Caza de ballenas		777 346
6	French (fr) Chasse à la baleine		580 723
7	Italian (it) Caccia alla balena		430 924
8	Polish (pl) Wielorybnictwo		348 334
9	Norwegian (no) Hvalfangst		286 257
10	Dutch (nl) Walvisvaart		271 992

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) Whaling		13 511
2	German (de) Walfang		3 482
3	Russian (ru) Китобойный промысел		2 437
4	Japanese (ja) 捕鯨		2 294
5	French (fr) Chasse à la baleine		1 346
6	Spanish (es) Caza de ballenas		990
7	Italian (it) Caccia alla balena		776
8	Chinese (zh) 捕鯨		770
9	Polish (pl) Wielorybnictwo		716
10	Dutch (nl) Walvisvaart		555

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whaling		1 185
2	German (de) Walfang		481
3	French (fr) Chasse à la baleine		160
4	Japanese (ja) 捕鯨		118
5	Italian (it) Caccia alla balena		112
6	Spanish (es) Caza de ballenas		97
7	Dutch (nl) Walvisvaart		91
8	Russian (ru) Китобойный промысел		71
9	Norwegian (no) Hvalfangst		61
10	Polish (pl) Wielorybnictwo		55

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) Whaling		4
2	Spanish (es) Caza de ballenas		4
3	German (de) Walfang		3
4	Persian (fa) شکار نهنگ		3
5	Japanese (ja) 捕鯨		3
6	Catalan (ca) Caça de balenes		1
7	Czech (cs) Velrybářství		1
8	Danish (da) Hvalfangst		1
9	Basque (eu) Balea arrantza		1
10	Galician (gl) Caza de baleas		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