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 28.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 1078 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27575 times in all languages (5982^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2696 in May 2013
• Global: #4145 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6191 in June 2025
• Global: #31501 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, 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	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		72.6884
2	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		63.4498
3	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		62.5707
4	Malay (ms) Galaksi elips		55.432
5	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		51.488
6	Basque (eu) Galaxia eliptiko		46.2544
7	Serbian (sr) Eliptička galaksija		36.6466
8	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		34.8895
9	Korean (ko) 타원은하		33.9581
10	Catalan (ca) Galàxia el·líptica		33.6861

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		2 458 155
2	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		932 723
3	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		334 346
4	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		224 767
5	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		193 662
6	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		153 992
7	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia elíptica		131 005
8	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		130 988
9	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		115 204
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		99 791

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		7 390
2	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		1 354
3	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		983
4	Simple English (simple) Elliptical galaxy		982
5	Japanese (ja) 楕円銀河		673
6	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		662
7	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		345
8	Chinese (zh) 椭圆星系		299
9	Polish (pl) Galaktyka eliptyczna		259
10	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		237

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		283
2	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		73
3	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica		68
4	French (fr) Galaxie elliptique		61
5	Italian (it) Galassia ellittica		53
6	Dutch (nl) Elliptisch sterrenstelsel		50
7	Russian (ru) Эллиптическая галактика		44
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	Ukrainian (uk) Еліптична галактика		2
2	Arabic (ar) مجرة إهليلجية		1
3	English (en) Elliptical galaxy		1
4	Korean (ko) 타원은하		1
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	German (de) Elliptische Galaxie		0
10	Greek (el) Ελλειπτικός γαλαξίας		0

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

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