Haithabu

Quality:

Hedeby - fortified viking town south of present day Slesvig town in North Germany. This city is the 1825^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 495^th most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Haithabu” in German Wikipedia has 80.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 19 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 495^th most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1825^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

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The 9989^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Haithabu” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Haithabu”, its content was written by 258 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hedeby is on the 495^th place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 1825^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 267 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2784 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #20 in July 2002
• Global: #185 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1269 in July 2018
• Global: #35948 in July 2018

There are 32 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	German (de) Haithabu		80.4674
2	English (en) Hedeby		69.1851
3	Slovenian (sl) Hedeby		43.964
4	Croatian (hr) Hedeby		37.3105
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hedeby		36.0079
6	Russian (ru) Хедебю		32.5688
7	Catalan (ca) Hedeby		31.1019
8	Finnish (fi) Hedeby		29.849
9	Estonian (et) Hedeby		29.6576
10	Dutch (nl) Hedeby		29.3129

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Haithabu		1 617 572
2	English (en) Hedeby		1 060 082
3	Russian (ru) Хедебю		239 657
4	Danish (da) Hedeby		204 199
5	Polish (pl) Hedeby		133 509
6	Swedish (sv) Hedeby		123 156
7	Spanish (es) Hedeby		104 104
8	French (fr) Hedeby		73 792
9	Norwegian (no) Hedeby		52 413
10	Dutch (nl) Hedeby		52 235

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Haithabu		8 033
2	English (en) Hedeby		4 511
3	Russian (ru) Хедебю		980
4	Danish (da) Hedeby		731
5	Swedish (sv) Hedeby		483
6	Polish (pl) Hedeby		420
7	Spanish (es) Hedeby		274
8	French (fr) Hedeby		223
9	Norwegian (no) Hedeby		197
10	Dutch (nl) Hedeby		177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Haithabu		258
2	English (en) Hedeby		158
3	Norwegian (no) Hedeby		52
4	Danish (da) Hedeby		47
5	French (fr) Hedeby		44
6	Italian (it) Hedeby		40
7	Swedish (sv) Hedeby		36
8	Russian (ru) Хедебю		35
9	Dutch (nl) Hedeby		34
10	Finnish (fi) Hedeby		22

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	German (de) Haithabu		1
2	Spanish (es) Hedeby		1
3	Italian (it) Hedeby		1
4	Georgian (ka) ჰედებიუ		1
5	Arabic (ar) هيديبي		0
6	Belarusian (be) Хедэбю		0
7	Catalan (ca) Hedeby		0
8	Czech (cs) Hedeby		0
9	Danish (da) Hedeby		0
10	English (en) Hedeby		0

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

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