Elliptical galaxy

Elliptical galaxy - galaxy having an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile. Article "Elliptical galaxy" in English Wikipedia has 51.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 8 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Elliptical galaxy" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Elliptical galaxy", its content was written by 283 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1078 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 865 times in English Wikipedia and cited 27575 times in all languages (5982^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8223 in September 2013
• Global: #4145 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34146 in April 2019
• Global: #31501 in April 2019

There are 46 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	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		72.6884
2	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		63.4498
3	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		62.5707
4	Malay (ms) Galaksi elips		55.432
5	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		51.488
6	Basque (eu) Galaxia eliptiko		46.2544
7	Serbian (sr) Eliptička galaksija		36.6466
8	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		34.8895
9	Korean (ko) 타원은하		33.9581
10	Catalan (ca) Galàxia el·líptica		33.6861

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Elliptical galaxy" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		2 458 155
2	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		932 723
3	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		334 346
4	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		224 767
5	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		193 662
6	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		153 992
7	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia elíptica		131 005
8	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		130 988
9	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		115 204
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		99 791

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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 "Elliptical galaxy" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		7 390
2	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		1 354
3	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		983
4	Simple English (simple) Elliptical galaxy		982
5	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		673
6	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		662
7	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		345
8	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		299
9	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		259
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		237

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		283
2	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		73
3	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		68
4	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		61
5	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		53
6	Dutch (nl) Elliptisch sterrenstelsel		50
7	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		44
8	Croatian (hr) Eliptična galaktika		27
9	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		25
10	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		24

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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 "Elliptical galaxy" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		2
2	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		1
3	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		1
4	Korean (ko) 타원은하		1
5	Belarusian (be) Эліптычная галактыка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Елиптична галактика		0
7	Catalan (ca) Galàxia el·líptica		0
8	Czech (cs) Eliptická galaxie		0
9	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		0
10	Greek (el) Ελλειπτικός γαλαξίας		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 "Elliptical galaxy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Eliptička galaksija		4 881
2	Slovak (sk) Eliptická galaxia		2 991
3	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		1 839
4	Belarusian (be) Эліптычная галактыка		1 473
5	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		1 454
6	Dutch (nl) Elliptisch sterrenstelsel		1 346
7	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia elíptica		1 302
8	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		1 272
9	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		1 251
10	Uzbek (uz) Elliptik galaktika		1 173

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مجرة إهليلجية
be	Belarusian Эліптычная галактыка
bg	Bulgarian Елиптична галактика
ca	Catalan Galàxia el·líptica
cs	Czech Eliptická galaxie
de	German Elliptische Galaxie
el	Greek Ελλειπτικός γαλαξίας
en	English Elliptical galaxy
eo	Esperanto Elipsa galaksio
es	Spanish Galaxia elíptica
et	Estonian Elliptiline galaktika
eu	Basque Galaxia eliptiko
fa	Persian کهکشان بیضوی
fi	Finnish Elliptinen galaksi
fr	French Galaxie elliptique
gl	Galician Galaxia elíptica
he	Hebrew גלקסיה אליפטית
hi	Hindi अंडाकार गैलेक्सी
hr	Croatian Eliptična galaktika
hu	Hungarian Elliptikus galaxis
id	Indonesian Galaksi eliptis
it	Italian Galassia ellittica
ja	Japanese 楕円銀河
kk	Kazakh Эллиптикалық галактика
ko	Korean 타원은하
lt	Lithuanian Elipsinė galaktika
ms	Malay Galaksi elips
nl	Dutch Elliptisch sterrenstelsel
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Elliptisk galakse
no	Norwegian Elliptisk galakse
pl	Polish Galaktyka eliptyczna
pt	Portuguese Galáxia elíptica
ro	Romanian Galaxie eliptică
ru	Russian Эллиптическая галактика
sh	Serbo-Croatian Eliptička galaksija
simple	Simple English Elliptical galaxy
sk	Slovak Eliptická galaxia
sr	Serbian Eliptička galaksija
sv	Swedish Elliptisk galax
th	Thai ดาราจักรรี
tr	Turkish Eliptik galaksi
uk	Ukrainian Еліптична галактика
uz	Uzbek Elliptik galaktika
vi	Vietnamese Thiên hà elip
zh	Chinese 椭圆星系
zhminnan	Min Nan Thó-îⁿ gîn-hô

Best Rank

English: #34146 04.2019

Global: #31501 04.2019

Best Rank

English: #8223 09.2013

Global: #4145 07.2012

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