Housefly

Quality:

Housefly - species of insect in the class "Muscidae", sort of fly. This taxon is the 395^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 446^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Housefly” in English Wikipedia has 91.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 446^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 395^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Housefly” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Housefly”, its content was written by 526 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1916 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Housefly is on the 446^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 395^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 277 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1386 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1939 in October 2009
• Global: #4270 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1559 in September 2018
• Global: #2825 in September 2018

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	English (en) Housefly		91.6077
2	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		72.6309
3	Estonian (et) Harilik toakärbes		59.872
4	Catalan (ca) Musca domestica		53.1287
5	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		51.4191
6	Chinese (zh) 家蠅		45.155
7	German (de) Stubenfliege		42.3018
8	Indonesian (id) Lalat rumah		42.2335
9	Galician (gl) Mosca doméstica		41.5733
10	Serbian (sr) Кућна мува		36.5633

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Housefly		7 742 678
2	German (de) Stubenfliege		1 666 397
3	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		1 626 633
4	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		1 548 882
5	French (fr) Mouche domestique		946 827
6	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		929 066
7	Portuguese (pt) Musca domestica		775 165
8	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		685 087
9	Italian (it) Musca domestica		477 642
10	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		378 454

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) Housefly		26 110
2	German (de) Stubenfliege		6 608
3	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		5 802
4	Spanish (es) Musca domestica		3 472
5	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		2 857
6	French (fr) Mouche domestique		2 715
7	Turkish (tr) Karasinek		2 442
8	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		2 085
9	Italian (it) Musca domestica		1 523
10	Greek (el) Οικιακή μύγα		1 443

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Housefly		526
2	German (de) Stubenfliege		204
3	Polish (pl) Mucha domowa		90
4	Dutch (nl) Huisvlieg		87
5	French (fr) Mouche domestique		86
6	Hebrew (he) זבוב הבית		79
7	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		78
8	Italian (it) Musca domestica		73
9	Portuguese (pt) Musca domestica		67
10	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		64

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) Musca domestica		2
2	English (en) Housefly		2
3	Hebrew (he) זבוב הבית		2
4	Russian (ru) Комнатная муха		1
5	Arabic (ar) ذبابة منزلية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Otaq milçəyi		0
7	Belarusian (be) Муха пакаёвая		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Домашна муха		0
9	Czech (cs) Moucha domácí		0
10	German (de) Stubenfliege		0

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

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