Petri dish

Quality:

Petri dish - shallow dish on which biological cultures may be grown and/or viewed. Article “Petri dish” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Petri dish”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1049 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1159 in June 2007
• Global: #2535 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1745 in June 2008
• Global: #1536 in May 2013

There are 43 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	Malay (ms) Piring Petri		65.8979
2	English (en) Petri dish		48.6907
3	Chinese (zh) 培养皿		44.2729
4	Esperanto (eo) Petri-plado		31.105
5	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		29.8528
6	Bulgarian (bg) Блюдо на Петри		29.5915
7	Catalan (ca) Placa de Petri		25.6458
8	Turkish (tr) Petri kabı		24.171
9	Finnish (fi) Petrimalja		23.0373
10	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		22.7805

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Petri dish		3 635 392
2	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		2 199 392
3	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		1 410 800
4	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		561 743
5	Portuguese (pt) Placa de Petri		426 216
6	Polish (pl) Szalka Petriego		397 928
7	German (de) Petrischale		390 840
8	Japanese (ja) シャーレ		386 846
9	Italian (it) Piastra di Petri		370 776
10	Indonesian (id) Cawan Petri		223 166

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) Petri dish		5 239
2	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		1 699
3	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		1 067
4	Japanese (ja) シャーレ		923
5	German (de) Petrischale		826
6	Italian (it) Piastra di Petri		768
7	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		713
8	Polish (pl) Szalka Petriego		489
9	Chinese (zh) 培养皿		302
10	Portuguese (pt) Placa de Petri		266

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Petri dish		234
2	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		83
3	German (de) Petrischale		79
4	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		77
5	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		58
6	Italian (it) Piastra di Petri		46
7	Dutch (nl) Petrischaal		42
8	Hebrew (he) צלחת פטרי		32
9	Japanese (ja) シャーレ		29
10	Portuguese (pt) Placa de Petri		28

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) طبق بتري		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Блюдо на Петри		0
3	Catalan (ca) Placa de Petri		0
4	Czech (cs) Petriho miska		0
5	Danish (da) Petriskål		0
6	German (de) Petrischale		0
7	Greek (el) Τρυβλίο Πέτρι		0
8	English (en) Petri dish		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Petri-plado		0
10	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		0

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

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