Monitor lizard

Quality:

Varanus - genus of reptiles. This taxon is the 505^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 416^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Monitor lizard” in English Wikipedia has 94.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 116 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 416^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 505^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Monitor lizard” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Monitor lizard”, its content was written by 457 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1402 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Varanus is on the 416^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 505^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 614 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3744 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8454 in August 2021
• Global: #4047 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3689 in April 2021
• Global: #4139 in April 2021

There are 37 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) Warane		100
2	English (en) Monitor lizard		94.8491
3	Portuguese (pt) Lagarto-monitor		65.8451
4	Chinese (zh) 巨蜥		63.7089
5	Galician (gl) Varanus		63.0262
6	Italian (it) Varanus		53.9202
7	Polish (pl) Varanus		53.8283
8	Estonian (et) Varaan		52.2734
9	Malay (ms) Biawak		48.7769
10	Russian (ru) Вараны		44.3442

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monitor lizard		8 245 621
2	German (de) Warane		1 879 070
3	Russian (ru) Вараны		1 632 550
4	French (fr) Varanus		1 049 912
5	Indonesian (id) Biawak		840 807
6	Hindi (hi) गोह		598 692
7	Italian (it) Varanus		472 809
8	Spanish (es) Varanus		342 719
9	Arabic (ar) ورل		321 595
10	Persian (fa) بزمجه		302 336

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) Monitor lizard		46 971
2	German (de) Warane		6 510
3	Russian (ru) Вараны		5 735
4	French (fr) Varanus		3 602
5	Spanish (es) Varanus		2 740
6	Indonesian (id) Biawak		2 463
7	Hindi (hi) गोह		2 417
8	Italian (it) Varanus		2 133
9	Persian (fa) بزمجه		1 722
10	Chinese (zh) 巨蜥		1 319

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Monitor lizard		457
2	German (de) Warane		209
3	French (fr) Varanus		88
4	Italian (it) Varanus		87
5	Russian (ru) Вараны		82
6	Hebrew (he) כוח (לטאה)		55
7	Czech (cs) Varan		40
8	Norwegian (no) Varaner		37
9	Indonesian (id) Biawak		28
10	Spanish (es) Varanus		26

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) Monitor lizard		5
2	Italian (it) Varanus		1
3	Polish (pl) Varanus		1
4	Arabic (ar) ورل		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Varan		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вараны		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Варани		0
8	Catalan (ca) Varanus		0
9	Czech (cs) Varan		0
10	Danish (da) Varaner		0

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

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