Elliptical galaxy

Quality:

Elliptical galaxy - galaxy having an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile. Article “Elliptical galaxy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Elliptical galaxy”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1088 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28009 times in all languages (6030^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2093 in August 2025
• Global: #4142 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6582 in February 2026
• Global: #31594 in April 2019

There are 46 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	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		71.8326
2	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		61.74
3	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		61.5652
4	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		58.0032
5	Malay (ms) Galaksi elips		53.9678
6	Basque (eu) Galaxia eliptiko		46.0766
7	Catalan (ca) Galàxia el·líptica		36.7393
8	Serbian (sr) Eliptička galaksija		36.6506
9	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		34.3859
10	Korean (ko) 타원 은하		33.8954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		2 540 972
2	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		943 160
3	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		354 986
4	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		233 312
5	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		201 460
6	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		158 060
7	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		135 108
8	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia elíptica		134 025
9	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		117 624
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		103 549

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) Elliptical galaxy		5 973
2	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		846
3	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		580
4	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		570
5	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		549
6	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		345
7	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		300
8	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		275
9	Korean (ko) 타원 은하		199
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		196

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		290
2	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		73
3	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		68
4	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		62
5	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		54
6	Dutch (nl) Elliptisch sterrenstelsel		51
7	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		45
8	Croatian (hr) Eliptična galaktika		27
9	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		25
10	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		24

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) Elliptical galaxy		2
2	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		2
3	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		1
4	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		0
5	Belarusian (be) Эліптычная галактыка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Елиптична галактика		0
7	Catalan (ca) Galàxia el·líptica		0
8	Czech (cs) Eliptická galaxie		0
9	Greek (el) Ελλειπτικός γαλαξίας		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Elipsa galaksio		0

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

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