Main sequence

Main sequence - distinctive band of stars on Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams. Article “Main sequence” in English Wikipedia has 83.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 81 references and 18 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Main sequence”, its content was written by 333 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1379 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3101 times in English Wikipedia and cited 19092 times in all languages (9064^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #404 in August 2001
• Global: #444 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10323 in March 2009
• Global: #16320 in March 2009

There are 47 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	Chinese (zh) 主序星		84.7529
2	English (en) Main sequence		83.5405
3	Thai (th) แถบลำดับหลัก		80.3127
4	German (de) Hauptreihe		78.156
5	Ukrainian (uk) Головна послідовність		75.8042
6	Portuguese (pt) Sequência principal		65.1035
7	Korean (ko) 주계열		61.7243
8	Russian (ru) Главная последовательность		61.5081
9	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		60.1611
10	French (fr) Séquence principale		57.3354

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Main sequence" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Main sequence		4 160 434
2	Russian (ru) Главная последовательность		654 290
3	Japanese (ja) 主系列星		544 110
4	German (de) Hauptreihe		434 843
5	Spanish (es) Secuencia principal		429 919
6	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		235 513
7	Chinese (zh) 主序星		222 174
8	Polish (pl) Ciąg główny		211 395
9	French (fr) Séquence principale		193 047
10	Korean (ko) 주계열		132 678

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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 "Main sequence" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Main sequence		11 988
2	Russian (ru) Главная последовательность		1 654
3	Japanese (ja) 主系列星		1 337
4	German (de) Hauptreihe		1 131
5	Chinese (zh) 主序星		839
6	Polish (pl) Ciąg główny		632
7	Spanish (es) Secuencia principal		620
8	French (fr) Séquence principale		595
9	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		467
10	Portuguese (pt) Sequência principal		270

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Main sequence		333
2	German (de) Hauptreihe		122
3	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		80
4	French (fr) Séquence principale		69
5	Russian (ru) Главная последовательность		68
6	Dutch (nl) Hoofdreeks		59
7	Spanish (es) Secuencia principal		56
8	Chinese (zh) 主序星		44
9	Korean (ko) 주계열		38
10	Polish (pl) Ciąg główny		30

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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 "Main sequence" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) הסדרה הראשית		2
2	Arabic (ar) التتابع الرئيس		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Ĉefa sekvenco		1
4	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		1
5	Japanese (ja) 主系列星		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Glavni niz		1
7	Serbian (sr) Главни низ		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Головна послідовність		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Dãy chính		1
10	Chinese (zh) 主序星		1

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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 "Main sequence" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Main sequence		3 101
2	Swedish (sv) Huvudserien		2 815
3	Italian (it) Sequenza principale		1 868
4	French (fr) Séquence principale		1 043
5	Spanish (es) Secuencia principal		923
6	Russian (ru) Главная последовательность		880
7	Chinese (zh) 主序星		830
8	Catalan (ca) Seqüència principal		588
9	Japanese (ja) 主系列星		580
10	Korean (ko) 주계열		551

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التتابع الرئيس
be	Belarusian Галоўная паслядоўнасць
bg	Bulgarian Главна последователност
ca	Catalan Seqüència principal
cs	Czech Hlavní posloupnost
de	German Hauptreihe
el	Greek Κύρια ακολουθία
en	English Main sequence
eo	Esperanto Ĉefa sekvenco
es	Spanish Secuencia principal
et	Estonian Peajada
eu	Basque Sekuentzia nagusia
fa	Persian رشته اصلی
fi	Finnish Pääsarja
fr	French Séquence principale
gl	Galician Secuencia principal
he	Hebrew הסדרה הראשית
hi	Hindi मुख्य अनुक्रम
hr	Croatian Glavni niz
hu	Hungarian Fősorozat
id	Indonesian Deret utama
it	Italian Sequenza principale
ja	Japanese 主系列星
ka	Georgian მთავარი მიმდევრობა
kk	Kazakh Негізгі тізбек жұлдыздары
ko	Korean 주계열
la	Latin Series principalis
lt	Lithuanian Pagrindinė seka
ms	Malay Jujukan utama
nl	Dutch Hoofdreeks
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Hovudserien
no	Norwegian Hovedserien (astronomi)
pl	Polish Ciąg główny
pt	Portuguese Sequência principal
ro	Romanian Secvența principală
ru	Russian Главная последовательность
sh	Serbo-Croatian Glavni niz
simple	Simple English Main sequence
sk	Slovak Hlavná postupnosť
sl	Slovenian Glavni niz
sr	Serbian Главни низ
sv	Swedish Huvudserien
th	Thai แถบลำดับหลัก
tr	Turkish Anakol
uk	Ukrainian Головна послідовність
vi	Vietnamese Dãy chính
zh	Chinese 主序星

Best Rank

English: #10323 03.2009

Global: #16320 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #404 08.2001

Global: #444 08.2001

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