Som

Quality:

Wels catfish - species of fish. This taxon is the 514^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 295^th most popular taxon in Slovenian Wikipedia. Article “Som” in Slovenian Wikipedia has 14.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Slovenian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Slovenian Wikipedia:

sl

The 4283^rd most popular in Slovenian Wikipedia.

The 295^th most popular in taxon in Slovenian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 514^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Slovenian Wikipedia:

sl

The 8532^nd most popular in Slovenian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6251^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3764^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Som”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Slovenian Wikipedia and edited by 2088 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wels catfish is on the 295^th place in local ranking of taxon in Slovenian Wikipedia and on the 514^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 45 times in Slovenian Wikipedia and cited 2978 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Slovenian): #157 in December 2011
• Global: #692 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Slovenian): #115 in August 2016
• Global: #4907 in June 2023

There are 47 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	German (de) Europäischer Wels		93.1479
2	French (fr) Silure glane		67.8016
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сом звичайний		65.1635
4	Italian (it) Silurus glanis		61.7236
5	Swedish (sv) Mal (fisk)		60.558
6	English (en) Wels catfish		57.2276
7	Hungarian (hu) Európai harcsa		51.633
8	Latin (la) Silurus glanis		44.4273
9	Chinese (zh) 歐鯰		42.3812
10	Polish (pl) Sum pospolity		40.9473

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Europäischer Wels		3 264 091
2	English (en) Wels catfish		2 572 194
3	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный сом		2 391 444
4	Polish (pl) Sum pospolity		1 355 247
5	Italian (it) Silurus glanis		1 058 960
6	Spanish (es) Silurus glanis		836 553
7	French (fr) Silure glane		766 212
8	Dutch (nl) Europese meerval		518 922
9	Czech (cs) Sumec velký		463 130
10	Swedish (sv) Mal (fisk)		404 678

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Europäischer Wels		71 485
2	English (en) Wels catfish		19 330
3	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный сом		13 930
4	Polish (pl) Sum pospolity		6 830
5	Italian (it) Silurus glanis		5 408
6	French (fr) Silure glane		4 721
7	Spanish (es) Silurus glanis		4 268
8	Czech (cs) Sumec velký		3 711
9	Dutch (nl) Europese meerval		2 794
10	Swedish (sv) Mal (fisk)		2 543

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Europäischer Wels		284
2	French (fr) Silure glane		200
3	English (en) Wels catfish		188
4	Italian (it) Silurus glanis		149
5	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный сом		138
6	Dutch (nl) Europese meerval		130
7	Polish (pl) Sum pospolity		92
8	Spanish (es) Silurus glanis		87
9	Hungarian (hu) Európai harcsa		76
10	Czech (cs) Sumec velký		66

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	German (de) Europäischer Wels		13
2	English (en) Wels catfish		6
3	Hungarian (hu) Európai harcsa		3
4	Czech (cs) Sumec velký		2
5	French (fr) Silure glane		2
6	Italian (it) Silurus glanis		2
7	Arabic (ar) سلور الدانوب		1
8	Finnish (fi) Monni		1
9	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパオオナマズ		1
10	Dutch (nl) Europese meerval		1

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

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