Bacteria

Quality:

Bacteria - domain of micro-organisms. This taxon is the 4^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 17^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Bacteria” in English Wikipedia has 96.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 301 references and 33 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 2533^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4853^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 585^th most popular in all topics.

The 995^th most popular in AI.

The 4^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6675^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2743^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Bacteria” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 39 authors in all languages (2743^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Bacteria”, its content was written by 1122 registered users of English Wikipedia (4853^rd place) and edited by 6370 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (995^th place).

Bacteria is on the 17^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 4^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 18075 times in English Wikipedia (973^rd place) and cited 87102 times in all languages (1777^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #191 in January 2007
• Global: #194 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #450 in September 2012
• Global: #195 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, 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	Hungarian (hu) Baktériumok		100
2	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		98.9638
3	Russian (ru) Бактерии		98.0987
4	Thai (th) แบคทีเรีย		97.1429
5	Romanian (ro) Bacterie		96.8716
6	English (en) Bacteria		96.2712
7	Turkish (tr) Bakteri		95.8876
8	Spanish (es) Bacteria		94.4592
9	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		94.1901
10	Polish (pl) Bakterie		94.0279

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bacteria		28 536 028
2	Spanish (es) Bacteria		27 836 334
3	German (de) Bakterien		6 163 001
4	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		5 803 070
5	Russian (ru) Бактерии		5 258 022
6	French (fr) Bactérie		4 198 760
7	Indonesian (id) Bakteri		3 476 904
8	Polish (pl) Bakterie		3 441 124
9	Japanese (ja) 細菌		2 897 933
10	Arabic (ar) بكتيريا		2 556 773

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		44 620
2	Spanish (es) Bacteria		16 599
3	Korean (ko) 세균		15 556
4	Russian (ru) Бактерии		9 264
5	Japanese (ja) 細菌		6 087
6	French (fr) Bactérie		5 859
7	German (de) Bakterien		4 945
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		4 326
9	Chinese (zh) 细菌		3 186
10	Italian (it) Bacteria		3 181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bacteria		1 122
2	German (de) Bakterien		408
3	Spanish (es) Bacteria		403
4	French (fr) Bactérie		376
5	Dutch (nl) Bacteriën		270
6	Russian (ru) Бактерии		238
7	Italian (it) Bacteria		224
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		218
9	Hebrew (he) חיידקים		203
10	Polish (pl) Bakterie		202

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	Korean (ko) 세균		8
2	English (en) Bacteria		6
3	Vietnamese (vi) Vi khuẩn		4
4	Spanish (es) Bacteria		3
5	French (fr) Bactérie		3
6	Czech (cs) Bakterie		2
7	Russian (ru) Бактерии		2
8	Serbian (sr) Бактерије		2
9	Urdu (ur) بیکٹیریا		2
10	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		1

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

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