Stellar classification

Quality:

Stellar classification - classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Article "Stellar classification" in English Wikipedia has 96.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 217 references and 35 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Stellar classification" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Stellar classification", its content was written by 665 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1778 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9484 times in English Wikipedia (2094^th place) and cited 59348 times in all languages (2739^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #210 in November 2001
• Global: #244 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5560 in December 2014
• Global: #11404 in December 2014

There are 33 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	Slovak (sk) Spektrálna klasifikácia		100
2	Spanish (es) Clasificación estelar		96.9512
3	English (en) Stellar classification		96.7958
4	Ukrainian (uk) Спектральна класифікація зір		96.7853
5	Portuguese (pt) Classificação estelar		96.5563
6	Russian (ru) Спектральная классификация звёзд		93.7579
7	Italian (it) Classificazione stellare		88.7142
8	Japanese (ja) スペクトル分類		87.9546
9	Turkish (tr) Yıldız sınıflandırma (astronomi)		81.9185
10	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati színképosztályozás		70.112

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stellar classification		8 375 060
2	Spanish (es) Clasificación estelar		1 703 421
3	Russian (ru) Спектральная классификация звёзд		1 539 145
4	Italian (it) Classificazione stellare		774 457
5	Japanese (ja) スペクトル分類		472 418
6	Portuguese (pt) Classificação estelar		393 334
7	German (de) Klassifizierung der Sterne		269 145
8	Indonesian (id) Klasifikasi bintang		211 756
9	Arabic (ar) تصنيف نجمي		197 572
10	Korean (ko) 항성분류		180 487

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) Stellar classification		34 830
2	Russian (ru) Спектральная классификация звёзд		4 419
3	Spanish (es) Clasificación estelar		3 091
4	Italian (it) Classificazione stellare		1 549
5	Japanese (ja) スペクトル分類		1 499
6	Simple English (simple) Stellar classification		1 229
7	Portuguese (pt) Classificação estelar		1 088
8	German (de) Klassifizierung der Sterne		1 016
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phân loại sao		747
10	Indonesian (id) Klasifikasi bintang		506

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stellar classification		665
2	Spanish (es) Clasificación estelar		115
3	Russian (ru) Спектральная классификация звёзд		106
4	Italian (it) Classificazione stellare		104
5	German (de) Klassifizierung der Sterne		71
6	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati színképosztályozás		67
7	Vietnamese (vi) Phân loại sao		55
8	Portuguese (pt) Classificação estelar		54
9	Korean (ko) 항성분류		43
10	Galician (gl) Clasificación estelar		42

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) Stellar classification		7
2	Spanish (es) Clasificación estelar		1
3	Japanese (ja) スペクトル分類		1
4	Arabic (ar) تصنيف نجمي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Ulduz təsnifatı		0
6	Czech (cs) Spektrální klasifikace		0
7	German (de) Klassifizierung der Sterne		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Klasigo de steloj		0
9	Basque (eu) Izarren sailkapena		0
10	Persian (fa) رده‌بندی ستارگان		0

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

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