Bacteria

Quality:

Bacteria - domain of micro-organisms. This taxon is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 18^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Bacteria” in English Wikipedia has 96.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 315 references and 37 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2661^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4911^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 18^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 631^st most popular in all topics.

The 1039^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3801^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Bacteria” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3801^st place).

Since the creation of article “Bacteria”, its content was written by 1147 registered users of English Wikipedia (4911^th place) and edited by 6381 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1039^th place).

Bacteria is on the 18^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 18236 times in English Wikipedia (974^th place) and cited 89142 times in all languages (1795^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #192 in January 2007
• Global: #193 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #449 in September 2012
• Global: #198 in April 2008

There are 55 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	Hungarian (hu) Baktériumok		100
2	Thai (th) แบคทีเรีย		99.0476
3	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		98.6889
4	Russian (ru) Бактерии		98.1571
5	Romanian (ro) Bacterie		96.8743
6	English (en) Bacteria		96.7148
7	Turkish (tr) Bakteri		95.7925
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		94.543
9	Lithuanian (lt) Bakterijos		94.0131
10	Spanish (es) Bacteria		93.9895

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bacteria		29 238 812
2	Spanish (es) Bacteria		28 004 267
3	German (de) Bakterien		6 247 768
4	Russian (ru) Бактерии		5 961 687
5	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		5 859 098
6	French (fr) Bactérie		4 285 954
7	Indonesian (id) Bakteri		3 513 158
8	Polish (pl) Bakterie		3 479 622
9	Japanese (ja) 細菌		2 963 430
10	Arabic (ar) بكتيريا		2 586 541

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) Bacteria		32 549
2	Russian (ru) Бактерии		7 571
3	Korean (ko) 세균		7 405
4	Spanish (es) Bacteria		6 981
5	German (de) Bakterien		4 987
6	Japanese (ja) 細菌		4 331
7	French (fr) Bactérie		4 254
8	Persian (fa) باکتری		2 765
9	Chinese (zh) 细菌		2 400
10	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		2 339

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bacteria		1 147
2	German (de) Bakterien		411
3	Spanish (es) Bacteria		406
4	French (fr) Bactérie		384
5	Dutch (nl) Bacteriën		272
6	Russian (ru) Бактерии		240
7	Italian (it) Bacteria		227
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		227
9	Hebrew (he) חיידקים		206
10	Polish (pl) Bakterie		205

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) Bacteria		7
2	Slovak (sk) Baktérie		3
3	Arabic (ar) بكتيريا		2
4	Hebrew (he) חיידקים		2
5	Hungarian (hu) Baktériumok		2
6	Japanese (ja) 細菌		2
7	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		1
8	Danish (da) Bakterier		1
9	Spanish (es) Bacteria		1
10	Estonian (et) Bakterid		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