Philip Plait

Phil Plait - American astronomer, writer, and skeptic. Article “Philip Plait” in French Wikipedia has 11.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Philip Plait”, its content was written by 28 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 378 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 219 times in French Wikipedia and cited 585 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #2898 in January 2010
• Global: #11078 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #227499 in January 2010
• Global: #208033 in August 2010

There are 10 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) Phil Plait		63.3951
2	German (de) Phil Plait		60.9317
3	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		30.8049
4	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		29.1846
5	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		28.9201
6	Italian (it) Phil Plait		28.5532
7	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		27.3077
8	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		26.203
9	French (fr) Philip Plait		11.5457
10	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		9.7009

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Philip Plait" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phil Plait		759 611
2	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		30 641
3	French (fr) Philip Plait		14 811
4	Italian (it) Phil Plait		10 065
5	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		9 140
6	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		5 979
7	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		5 913
8	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		4 514
9	German (de) Phil Plait		2 326
10	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		2 101

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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 "Philip Plait" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phil Plait		1 510
2	German (de) Phil Plait		118
3	French (fr) Philip Plait		78
4	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		68
5	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		53
6	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		40
7	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		37
8	Italian (it) Phil Plait		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		28
10	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phil Plait		232
2	French (fr) Philip Plait		28
3	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		27
4	Italian (it) Phil Plait		26
5	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		18
6	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		12
7	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		12
8	German (de) Phil Plait		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		7
10	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		6

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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 "Philip Plait" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		1
2	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		0
3	German (de) Phil Plait		0
4	English (en) Phil Plait		0
5	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		0
6	French (fr) Philip Plait		0
7	Italian (it) Phil Plait		0
8	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		0
10	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		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 "Philip Plait" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Phil Plait		230
2	French (fr) Philip Plait		219
3	Spanish (es) Phil Plait		31
4	Norwegian (no) Phil Plait		21
5	Portuguese (pt) Phil Plait		21
6	Italian (it) Phil Plait		18
7	Russian (ru) Плейт, Фил		18
8	Swedish (sv) Phil Plait		11
9	German (de) Phil Plait		9
10	Arabic (ar) فل بليت		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فل بليت
de	German Phil Plait
en	English Phil Plait
es	Spanish Phil Plait
fr	French Philip Plait
it	Italian Phil Plait
no	Norwegian Phil Plait
pt	Portuguese Phil Plait
ru	Russian Плейт, Фил
sv	Swedish Phil Plait

Best Rank

French: #227499 01.2010

Global: #208033 08.2010

Best Rank

French: #2898 01.2010

Global: #11078 09.2005

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