Great auk

Quality:

Great Auk - species of bird (extinct). Article “Great auk” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Great auk”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1839 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1755 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #156 in December 2009
• Global: #841 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6667 in November 2024
• Global: #2622 in December 2012

There are 43 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) Great auk		100
2	Catalan (ca) Gavot gegant		97.6471
3	Polish (pl) Alka olbrzymia		95.513
4	Portuguese (pt) Arau-gigante		95.4404
5	Russian (ru) Бескрылая гагарка		87.2971
6	Italian (it) Pinguinus impennis		84.2626
7	French (fr) Grand Pingouin		82.6923
8	Chinese (zh) 大海雀		51.2065
9	Ukrainian (uk) Гагарка велика		47.9354
10	German (de) Riesenalk		45.9045

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great auk		5 226 255
2	Japanese (ja) オオウミガラス		702 019
3	German (de) Riesenalk		665 520
4	French (fr) Grand Pingouin		633 706
5	Spanish (es) Pinguinus impennis		542 265
6	Italian (it) Pinguinus impennis		362 026
7	Russian (ru) Бескрылая гагарка		333 640
8	Polish (pl) Alka olbrzymia		270 031
9	Chinese (zh) 大海雀		244 622
10	Portuguese (pt) Arau-gigante		151 260

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) Great auk		41 643
2	German (de) Riesenalk		5 447
3	Japanese (ja) オオウミガラス		3 464
4	Italian (it) Pinguinus impennis		3 341
5	Spanish (es) Pinguinus impennis		3 231
6	French (fr) Grand Pingouin		2 404
7	Russian (ru) Бескрылая гагарка		2 316
8	Chinese (zh) 大海雀		1 749
9	Dutch (nl) Reuzenalk		1 415
10	Polish (pl) Alka olbrzymia		1 143

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great auk		460
2	German (de) Riesenalk		172
3	French (fr) Grand Pingouin		141
4	Italian (it) Pinguinus impennis		99
5	Dutch (nl) Reuzenalk		88
6	Russian (ru) Бескрылая гагарка		82
7	Norwegian (no) Geirfugl		80
8	Spanish (es) Pinguinus impennis		55
9	Japanese (ja) オオウミガラス		51
10	Polish (pl) Alka olbrzymia		51

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	French (fr) Grand Pingouin		3
2	English (en) Great auk		2
3	Russian (ru) Бескрылая гагарка		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Гагарка велика		1
5	Arabic (ar) أوك كبير		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Pinguinus impennis		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Гигантска гагарка		0
8	Catalan (ca) Gavot gegant		0
9	Czech (cs) Alka velká		0
10	Danish (da) Gejrfugl		0

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

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