Pioneer plaque

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Pioneer plaque - plaque attached to the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft in case extraterrestrial life finds them. This painting is the 35^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 23^rd most popular painting in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Pioneer plaque” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.22 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 23^rd most popular in paintings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 35^th most popular in paintings.

Since the creation of article “Pioneer plaque”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1102 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pioneer plaque is on the 23^rd place in local ranking of paintings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 35^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2426 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #378 in June 2009
• Global: #4451 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4007 in March 2017
• Global: #8359 in January 2019

There are 33 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) Plak perintis		81.292
2	Turkish (tr) Pioneer plağı		66.305
3	English (en) Pioneer plaque		66.2463
4	Portuguese (pt) Placa Pioneer		50.3232
5	Chinese (zh) 先驅者鍍金鋁板		46.7225
6	French (fr) Plaque de Pioneer		43.1885
7	Italian (it) Placca dei Pioneer		36.5965
8	Hungarian (hu) Pioneer-tábla		35.8202
9	Indonesian (id) Plakat Pioneer		34.6493
10	Hebrew (he) דיסקית פיוניר		33.7225

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pioneer plaque		3 885 749
2	French (fr) Plaque de Pioneer		576 489
3	German (de) Pioneer-Plakette		482 888
4	Russian (ru) Пластинки «Пионера»		478 226
5	Spanish (es) Placa de la Pioneer		473 133
6	Japanese (ja) パイオニア探査機の金属板		452 588
7	Polish (pl) Płytka Pioneera		210 875
8	Italian (it) Placca dei Pioneer		194 618
9	Chinese (zh) 先驅者鍍金鋁板		118 635
10	Swedish (sv) Pioneer-plaketterna		73 957

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) Pioneer plaque		11 002
2	Russian (ru) Пластинки «Пионера»		2 333
3	French (fr) Plaque de Pioneer		1 810
4	Japanese (ja) パイオニア探査機の金属板		1 626
5	Spanish (es) Placa de la Pioneer		1 144
6	German (de) Pioneer-Plakette		1 079
7	Polish (pl) Płytka Pioneera		826
8	Chinese (zh) 先驅者鍍金鋁板		572
9	Italian (it) Placca dei Pioneer		401
10	Simple English (simple) Pioneer plaque		336

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pioneer plaque		370
2	French (fr) Plaque de Pioneer		94
3	German (de) Pioneer-Plakette		85
4	Italian (it) Placca dei Pioneer		78
5	Russian (ru) Пластинки «Пионера»		63
6	Dutch (nl) Gouden plaat (Pioneerprogramma)		45
7	Chinese (zh) 先驅者鍍金鋁板		41
8	Norwegian (no) Pioneerplatene		37
9	Hebrew (he) דיסקית פיוניר		35
10	Spanish (es) Placa de la Pioneer		33

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) Pioneer plaque		4
2	Italian (it) Placca dei Pioneer		2
3	Arabic (ar) لوح بايونير		1
4	German (de) Pioneer-Plakette		1
5	Belarusian (be) Пласціны «Піянера»		0
6	Catalan (ca) Placa de les Pioneer		0
7	Danish (da) Pioneerplade		0
8	Greek (el) Χρυσή πλάκα του Πάιονηρ		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Tabulo de la kosmosondiloj Pioneer		0
10	Spanish (es) Placa de la Pioneer		0

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

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