Orangutan

Quality:

Orangutan - genus of ape found in rainforests on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. This taxon is the 158^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 148^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Orangutan” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3187^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3030^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 148^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7418^th most popular in all topics.

The 4077^th most popular in AI.

The 158^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5769^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6852^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Orangutan”, its content was written by 46 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3030^th place) and edited by 3887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4077^th place).

Orangutan is on the 148^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 158^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6519 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #27 in July 2011
• Global: #251 in November 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in April 2016
• Global: #2363 in May 2024

There are 52 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	Malay (ms) Orang utan		100
2	English (en) Orangutan		97.6011
3	Indonesian (id) Orang utan		97.3926
4	Czech (cs) Orangutan		93.5238
5	Chinese (zh) 猩猩屬		93.258
6	German (de) Orang-Utans		92.5864
7	Japanese (ja) オランウータン		89.067
8	Spanish (es) Pongo		78.4123
9	Portuguese (pt) Orangotango		69.6765
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đười ươi		68.8777

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orangutan		15 323 169
2	German (de) Orang-Utans		2 273 226
3	Spanish (es) Pongo		1 851 366
4	Indonesian (id) Orang utan		1 657 812
5	French (fr) Orang-outan		1 607 305
6	Russian (ru) Орангутаны		1 504 065
7	Japanese (ja) オランウータン		1 408 286
8	Portuguese (pt) Orangotango		768 224
9	Polish (pl) Orangutan		629 631
10	Dutch (nl) Orang-oetans		590 140

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) Orangutan		79 774
2	Russian (ru) Орангутаны		7 601
3	German (de) Orang-Utans		7 200
4	Japanese (ja) オランウータン		6 891
5	Spanish (es) Pongo		6 621
6	French (fr) Orang-outan		6 531
7	Portuguese (pt) Orangotango		3 621
8	Indonesian (id) Orang utan		2 657
9	Chinese (zh) 猩猩屬		2 611
10	Italian (it) Pongo (zoologia)		2 465

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orangutan		1 017
2	German (de) Orang-Utans		368
3	French (fr) Orang-outan		189
4	Spanish (es) Pongo		179
5	Dutch (nl) Orang-oetans		167
6	Russian (ru) Орангутаны		142
7	Hebrew (he) אורנגאוטן		140
8	Japanese (ja) オランウータン		116
9	Italian (it) Pongo (zoologia)		106
10	Czech (cs) Orangutan		93

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	Spanish (es) Pongo		4
2	German (de) Orang-Utans		2
3	English (en) Orangutan		2
4	French (fr) Orang-outan		2
5	Japanese (ja) オランウータン		2
6	Norwegian (no) Orangutanger		2
7	Russian (ru) Орангутаны		2
8	Serbian (sr) Орангутани		2
9	Persian (fa) اورانگوتان		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Orangotango		1

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

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