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 3.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1039 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2925 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1161 in June 2007
• Global: #2534 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1741 in June 2008
• Global: #1508 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, 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	Malay (ms) Piring Petri		65.7644
2	English (en) Petri dish		49.2002
3	Chinese (zh) 培养皿		33.3975
4	Bulgarian (bg) Блюдо на Петри		30.3185
5	Esperanto (eo) Petri-plado		29.8876
6	Catalan (ca) Placa de Petri		25.5043
7	Turkish (tr) Petri kabı		24.1215
8	Arabic (ar) طبق بتري		23.2829
9	Finnish (fi) Petrimalja		23.0051
10	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		22.5101

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Petri dish		3 549 178
2	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		2 177 711
3	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		1 336 793
4	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		544 274
5	Portuguese (pt) Placa de Petri		421 826
6	Polish (pl) Szalka Petriego		389 434
7	German (de) Petrischale		378 658
8	Japanese (ja) シャーレ		375 175
9	Italian (it) Piastra di Petri		359 170
10	Indonesian (id) Cawan Petri		218 497

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		6 748
2	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		2 928
3	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		1 781
4	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		1 329
5	Italian (it) Piastra di Petri		1 173
6	Japanese (ja) シャーレ		1 052
7	German (de) Petrischale		758
8	Polish (pl) Szalka Petriego		472
9	Chinese (zh) 培养皿		398
10	Portuguese (pt) Placa de Petri		385

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		230
2	French (fr) Boîte de Petri		81
3	German (de) Petrischale		77
4	Spanish (es) Placa de Petri		75
5	Russian (ru) Чашка Петри		57
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	Croatian (hr) Petrijeva zdjelica		25

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

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

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