Pilus

Quality:

Pilus - proteinaceous hair-like appendage on the surface of bacteria ranging from 2-8 nm in diameter. Article “Pilus” in Galician Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Pilus”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Galician Wikipedia and edited by 545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 61 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 1438 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #979 in April 2022
• Global: #618 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #180 in November 2025
• Global: #45022 in September 2013

There are 28 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	English (en) Pilus		66.7711
2	Hebrew (he) פילי		38.9595
3	Swedish (sv) Pilus		34.7425
4	Estonian (et) Piil		31.3358
5	Galician (gl) Pilus		24.2976
6	Romanian (ro) Pil		23.2664
7	Catalan (ca) Pilus		21.5658
8	Persian (fa) مویک		21.0444
9	Arabic (ar) أشعار بكتيرية		21.0429
10	Russian (ru) Пили		21.0373

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pilus		2 480 611
2	Spanish (es) Pilus		793 870
3	German (de) Pilus		260 825
4	Russian (ru) Пили		250 987
5	Italian (it) Pilo (biologia)		182 255
6	French (fr) Pilus		170 616
7	Portuguese (pt) Pilus		121 499
8	Turkish (tr) Pilus		72 800
9	Chinese (zh) 性菌毛		56 205
10	Swedish (sv) Pilus		55 929

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) Pilus		1 867
2	Spanish (es) Pilus		298
3	Russian (ru) Пили		275
4	German (de) Pilus		181
5	French (fr) Pilus		160
6	Chinese (zh) 性菌毛		131
7	Indonesian (id) Pilus		96
8	Korean (ko) 선모		94
9	Turkish (tr) Pilus		87
10	Polish (pl) Pilus		77

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pilus		176
2	German (de) Pilus		54
3	French (fr) Pilus		40
4	Spanish (es) Pilus		39
5	Dutch (nl) Pilus		35
6	Russian (ru) Пили		32
7	Italian (it) Pilo (biologia)		27
8	Polish (pl) Pilus		22
9	Croatian (hr) Pilus		14
10	Turkish (tr) Pilus		12

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	Arabic (ar) أشعار بكتيرية		1
2	English (en) Pilus		1
3	Catalan (ca) Pilus		0
4	Czech (cs) Pilus		0
5	German (de) Pilus		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Piluso		0
7	Spanish (es) Pilus		0
8	Estonian (et) Piil		0
9	Basque (eu) Pilus		0
10	Persian (fa) مویک		0

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

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In Galician Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Marina Castaño, Xabier Ron, Estilo manuelino, Super Bock, Ursula von der Leyen, Yukimura Sanada, República Democrática do Congo, Illas Alvedosas, Isaac Prado Villapol, Nacho Castaño.

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