Megalodon

Quality:

Megalodon - extinct species of shark. This taxon is the 24^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 17^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Megalodon” in English Wikipedia has 95.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 322 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2527^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7613^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 17^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1794^th most popular in all topics.

The 4866^th most popular in AI.

The 24^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8595^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4331^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3612^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Megalodon” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 34 authors in all languages (3612^th place).

Since the creation of article “Megalodon”, its content was written by 960 registered users of English Wikipedia (7613^th place) and edited by 3642 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4866^th place).

Megalodon is on the 17^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 24^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 302 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1305 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #331 in August 2013
• Global: #199 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #65 in August 2018
• Global: #15 in August 2018

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, 2026 (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	Spanish (es) Otodus megalodon		100
2	Czech (cs) Megalodon		100
3	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfogú cápa		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		99.9777
5	Indonesian (id) Megalodon		98.408
6	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		98.2609
7	German (de) Megalodon		98.1703
8	English (en) Megalodon		95.8045
9	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		93.3075
10	Arabic (ar) ميجالودون		90.092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Megalodon		29 992 184
2	Spanish (es) Otodus megalodon		6 955 973
3	German (de) Megalodon		5 936 639
4	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		5 616 302
5	French (fr) Mégalodon		4 444 691
6	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		3 495 161
7	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		2 786 386
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		2 270 150
9	Polish (pl) Megalodon		1 345 904
10	Chinese (zh) 巨齿鲨		1 054 882

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) Megalodon		66 242
2	German (de) Megalodon		13 537
3	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		10 840
4	Spanish (es) Otodus megalodon		10 018
5	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		9 300
6	French (fr) Mégalodon		9 296
7	Japanese (ja) メガロドン		9 204
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		5 263
9	Korean (ko) 메갈로돈		4 648
10	Chinese (zh) 巨齿鲨		3 667

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Megalodon		960
2	French (fr) Mégalodon		314
3	German (de) Megalodon		276
4	Spanish (es) Otodus megalodon		203
5	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		180
6	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		176
7	Dutch (nl) Megalodon		141
8	Portuguese (pt) Megalodonte		125
9	Hebrew (he) מגלודון		116
10	Swedish (sv) Megalodon		87

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) Otodus megalodon		5
2	Arabic (ar) ميجالودون		4
3	English (en) Megalodon		4
4	Korean (ko) 메갈로돈		4
5	Russian (ru) Мегалодон		4
6	French (fr) Mégalodon		3
7	Italian (it) Otodus megalodon		3
8	Hungarian (hu) Óriásfogú cápa		2
9	Vietnamese (vi) Megalodon		2
10	Azerbaijani (az) Meqalodon		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information