Bacteria

Quality:

Bacteria - domain of micro-organisms. This taxon is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 29^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Bacteria” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 664^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 725^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 29^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 631^st most popular in all topics.

The 1039^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3015^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3801^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Bacteria”, its content was written by 99 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (725^th place) and edited by 6381 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1039^th place).

Bacteria is on the 29^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 878 times in Simple English Wikipedia (656^th place) and cited 89142 times in all languages (1795^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #52 in December 2006
• Global: #193 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24 in June 2020
• Global: #198 in April 2008

There are 55 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	Hungarian (hu) Baktériumok		100
2	Thai (th) แบคทีเรีย		99.0476
3	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		98.6889
4	Russian (ru) Бактерии		98.1571
5	Romanian (ro) Bacterie		96.8743
6	English (en) Bacteria		96.7148
7	Turkish (tr) Bakteri		95.7925
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		94.543
9	Lithuanian (lt) Bakterijos		94.0131
10	Spanish (es) Bacteria		93.9895

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bacteria		29 238 812
2	Spanish (es) Bacteria		28 004 267
3	German (de) Bakterien		6 247 768
4	Russian (ru) Бактерии		5 961 687
5	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		5 859 098
6	French (fr) Bactérie		4 285 954
7	Indonesian (id) Bakteri		3 513 158
8	Polish (pl) Bakterie		3 479 622
9	Japanese (ja) 細菌		2 963 430
10	Arabic (ar) بكتيريا		2 586 541

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) Bacteria		32 549
2	Russian (ru) Бактерии		7 571
3	Korean (ko) 세균		7 405
4	Spanish (es) Bacteria		6 981
5	German (de) Bakterien		4 987
6	Japanese (ja) 細菌		4 331
7	French (fr) Bactérie		4 254
8	Persian (fa) باکتری		2 765
9	Chinese (zh) 细菌		2 400
10	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		2 339

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bacteria		1 147
2	German (de) Bakterien		411
3	Spanish (es) Bacteria		406
4	French (fr) Bactérie		384
5	Dutch (nl) Bacteriën		272
6	Russian (ru) Бактерии		240
7	Italian (it) Bacteria		227
8	Portuguese (pt) Bactéria		227
9	Hebrew (he) חיידקים		206
10	Polish (pl) Bakterie		205

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) Bacteria		7
2	Slovak (sk) Baktérie		3
3	Arabic (ar) بكتيريا		2
4	Hebrew (he) חיידקים		2
5	Hungarian (hu) Baktériumok		2
6	Japanese (ja) 細菌		2
7	Catalan (ca) Bacteris		1
8	Danish (da) Bakterier		1
9	Spanish (es) Bacteria		1
10	Estonian (et) Bakterid		1

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

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