Elephant trunk (astronomy)

Cold molecular pillar - type of interstellar matter formations found in molecular clouds. Article “Elephant trunk (astronomy)” in English Wikipedia has 36.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Elephant trunk (astronomy)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Elephant trunk (astronomy)”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 70 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in English Wikipedia and cited 27 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26528 in July 2017
• Global: #105390 in July 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #94066 in October 2022
• Global: #149443 in October 2022

There are 8 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) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		36.7646
2	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		35.2958
3	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		33.3458
4	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		31.6795
5	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		30.7117
6	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		30.658
7	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		25.8604
8	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		25.4331

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Elephant trunk (astronomy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		149 484
2	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		25 632
3	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		9 105
4	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		1 100
5	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		792
6	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		305
7	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		219
8	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		213

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Elephant trunk (astronomy)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		1 697
2	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		174
3	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		161
4	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		93
5	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		13
6	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		12
7	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		9
8	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		5

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

Language versions of the article "Elephant trunk (astronomy)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		43
2	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		10
3	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		4
4	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		4
5	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		3
6	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		3
7	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		2
8	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		1

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

Language versions of the article "Elephant trunk (astronomy)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		2
2	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		0
3	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		0
4	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		0
5	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		0
6	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		0
8	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		0

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

Language versions of the article "Elephant trunk (astronomy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Elephant trunk (astronomy)		6
2	Spanish (es) Trompa de elefante (astronomía)		5
3	Estonian (et) Lont (astronoomia)		5
4	French (fr) Pilier moléculaire		3
5	Croatian (hr) Slonova surla (astronomija)		3
6	Chinese (zh) 象鼻管		3
7	Catalan (ca) Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Слонячі хоботи		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Trompes d'elefant (astronomia)
en	English Elephant trunk (astronomy)
es	Spanish Trompa de elefante (astronomía)
et	Estonian Lont (astronoomia)
fr	French Pilier moléculaire
hr	Croatian Slonova surla (astronomija)
uk	Ukrainian Слонячі хоботи
zh	Chinese 象鼻管

Best Rank

English: #94066 10.2022

Global: #149443 10.2022

Best Rank

English: #26528 07.2017

Global: #105390 07.2017

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