MG42

Quality:

MG 42 - general-purpose machine gun. Article “MG42” in Danish Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.22 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Danish) language version.

Since the creation of article “MG42”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 1951 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 3227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #245 in August 2024
• Global: #3385 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #8017 in March 2014
• Global: #7530 in November 2015

There are 37 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	English (en) MG 42		92.5877
2	Catalan (ca) MG 42		85.7856
3	Vietnamese (vi) MG 42		80.2309
4	Simple English (simple) MG 42		73.4498
5	Chinese (zh) MG42通用機槍		54.4633
6	Portuguese (pt) MG42		45.0302
7	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy MG 42		41.7608
8	German (de) Maschinengewehr 42		38.9731
9	Italian (it) MG 42		35.2353
10	Russian (ru) MG 42		34.4425

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) MG 42		8 733 704
2	German (de) Maschinengewehr 42		3 749 676
3	Russian (ru) MG 42		2 253 743
4	Japanese (ja) グロスフスMG42機関銃		1 628 074
5	Spanish (es) MG 42		1 134 282
6	Italian (it) MG 42		1 009 216
7	French (fr) Maschinengewehr 42		856 278
8	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy MG 42		790 694
9	Chinese (zh) MG42通用機槍		478 225
10	Portuguese (pt) MG42		275 952

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) MG 42		28 583
2	German (de) Maschinengewehr 42		9 960
3	Japanese (ja) グロスフスMG42機関銃		6 795
4	Russian (ru) MG 42		6 361
5	French (fr) Maschinengewehr 42		2 993
6	Spanish (es) MG 42		2 469
7	Italian (it) MG 42		2 425
8	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy MG 42		1 903
9	Chinese (zh) MG42通用機槍		1 686
10	Ukrainian (uk) MG-42		887

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) MG 42		508
2	German (de) Maschinengewehr 42		244
3	French (fr) Maschinengewehr 42		111
4	Italian (it) MG 42		110
5	Russian (ru) MG 42		103
6	Japanese (ja) グロスフスMG42機関銃		79
7	Spanish (es) MG 42		73
8	Dutch (nl) MG42		66
9	Chinese (zh) MG42通用機槍		66
10	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy MG 42		53

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) MG 42		4
2	Russian (ru) MG 42		2
3	Arabic (ar) إم جي-42		1
4	Catalan (ca) MG 42		1
5	Spanish (es) MG 42		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) MG 42		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) MG 42		0
8	Belarusian (be) MG 42		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) MG42		0
10	Czech (cs) MG 42		0

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

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