Virus

Quality:

Virus - non-cellular, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. This taxon is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 171^st most popular taxon in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article "Virus" in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 2822^nd most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 5253^rd most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 171^st most popular in taxon in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 473^rd most popular in all topics.

The 702^nd most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5291^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2954^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Virus", its content was written by 9 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (5253^rd place) and edited by 7014 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (702^nd place).

Virus is on the 171^st place in local ranking of taxon in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 97 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 36854 times in all languages (4286^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #131 in March 2009
• Global: #36 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #163 in August 2016
• Global: #12 in March 2020

There are 54 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Indonesian (id) Virus		100
2	Polish (pl) Wirusy		100
3	Arabic (ar) فيروس		100
4	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		100
5	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		100
6	Armenian (hy) Վիրուսներ		100
7	Catalan (ca) Virus		100
8	Vietnamese (vi) Virus		99.8707
9	Spanish (es) Virus		99.8525
10	Russian (ru) Вирусы		98.4477

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virus		31 257 593
2	Spanish (es) Virus		22 562 102
3	Russian (ru) Вирусы		8 486 826
4	German (de) Viren		6 579 426
5	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		5 833 488
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 155 636
7	Indonesian (id) Virus		4 636 857
8	French (fr) Virus		4 539 682
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 834 067
10	Polish (pl) Wirusy		3 090 616

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) Virus		56 724
2	Spanish (es) Virus		23 130
3	Russian (ru) Вирусы		15 116
4	Indonesian (id) Virus		10 074
5	Chinese (zh) 病毒		8 421
6	German (de) Viren		8 046
7	Persian (fa) ویروس		7 901
8	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		6 909
9	Hindi (hi) विषाणु		6 594
10	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		4 930

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virus		1 297
2	German (de) Viren		560
3	French (fr) Virus		412
4	Spanish (es) Virus		389
5	Russian (ru) Вирусы		329
6	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		276
7	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		234
8	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		232
9	Hebrew (he) נגיף		202
10	Chinese (zh) 病毒		190

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) Virus		5
2	Spanish (es) Virus		5
3	German (de) Viren		4
4	French (fr) Virus		4
5	Russian (ru) Вирусы		3
6	Catalan (ca) Virus		2
7	Hebrew (he) נגיף		2
8	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		2
9	Turkish (tr) Virüs		2
10	Ukrainian (uk) Вірус		2

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

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