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Messier 66

Quality:

Messier 66 - Spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo. Article “Messier 66” in German Wikipedia has 45 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Messier 66”, its content was written by 75 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 681 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 235 times in German Wikipedia and cited 7315 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #2926 in September 2004
  • Global: #5719 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #132159 in December 2008
  • Global: #227808 in April 2010

There are 39 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Messier 66
57.854
2French (fr)
M66 (galaxie)
52.0317
3German (de)
Messier 66
45.0002
4Portuguese (pt)
Messier 66
43.7704
5Swedish (sv)
Messier 66
41.4557
6Czech (cs)
Messier 66
39.2671
7Turkish (tr)
Messier 66
35.518
8Spanish (es)
Galaxia espiral M66
33.1153
9Italian (it)
M66 (astronomia)
31.0704
10Vietnamese (vi)
Messier 66
30.4535
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 66" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Messier 66
216 135
2German (de)
Messier 66
48 078
3Russian (ru)
M 66 (галактика)
38 158
4Japanese (ja)
M66 (天体)
33 219
5Spanish (es)
Galaxia espiral M66
28 101
6Polish (pl)
Messier 66
25 877
7Italian (it)
M66 (astronomia)
23 155
8Chinese (zh)
M66
18 929
9Portuguese (pt)
Messier 66
18 202
10Korean (ko)
메시에 66
12 923
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 66" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Messier 66
748
2German (de)
Messier 66
137
3French (fr)
M66 (galaxie)
105
4Chinese (zh)
M66
94
5Japanese (ja)
M66 (天体)
93
6Russian (ru)
M 66 (галактика)
83
7Spanish (es)
Galaxia espiral M66
81
8Italian (it)
M66 (astronomia)
74
9Polish (pl)
Messier 66
35
10Turkish (tr)
Messier 66
31
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Messier 66
99
2German (de)
Messier 66
75
3French (fr)
M66 (galaxie)
68
4Italian (it)
M66 (astronomia)
54
5Russian (ru)
M 66 (галактика)
37
6Hungarian (hu)
Messier 66
34
7Croatian (hr)
Messier 66
31
8Dutch (nl)
Messier 66
26
9Japanese (ja)
M66 (天体)
18
10Esperanto (eo)
M66
15
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Messier 66
1
2Arabic (ar)
مسييه 66
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
NGC 3627
0
4Belarusian (be)
M66 (аб’ект Месье)
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
M66
0
6Catalan (ca)
Messier 66
0
7German (de)
Messier 66
0
8Greek (el)
Μεσιέ 66
0
9English (en)
Messier 66
0
10Esperanto (eo)
M66
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
M66 (galaxie)
628
2Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Messier 66
599
3English (en)
Messier 66
588
4Romanian (ro)
Messier 66
561
5Basque (eu)
Messier 66
402
6Croatian (hr)
Messier 66
337
7Dutch (nl)
Messier 66
324
8Arabic (ar)
مسييه 66
308
9German (de)
Messier 66
235
10Chinese (zh)
M66
193
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مسييه 66
azAzerbaijani
NGC 3627
beBelarusian
M66 (аб’ект Месье)
bgBulgarian
M66
caCatalan
Messier 66
csCzech
Messier 66
deGerman
Messier 66
elGreek
Μεσιέ 66
enEnglish
Messier 66
eoEsperanto
M66
esSpanish
Galaxia espiral M66
etEstonian
Messier 66
euBasque
Messier 66
faPersian
مسیه ۶۶
fiFinnish
Messier 66
frFrench
M66 (galaxie)
heHebrew
M66
hrCroatian
Messier 66
huHungarian
Messier 66
idIndonesian
Messier 66
itItalian
M66 (astronomia)
jaJapanese
M66 (天体)
koKorean
메시에 66
ltLithuanian
Mesjė 66
nlDutch
Messier 66
noNorwegian
Messier 66
plPolish
Messier 66
ptPortuguese
Messier 66
roRomanian
Messier 66
ruRussian
M 66 (галактика)
shSerbo-Croatian
Messier 66
skSlovak
Messier 66 (galaxia)
srSerbian
Месје 66
svSwedish
Messier 66
trTurkish
Messier 66
ukUkrainian
Мессьє 66
viVietnamese
Messier 66
zhChinese
M66
zhminnanMin Nan
Messier 66

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#132159
12.2008
Global:
#227808
04.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#2926
09.2004
Global:
#5719
02.2011

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Messier 66 from Wikipedia articles about Leo Triplet, Messier 65, Messier object, Leo and Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Whereas reading the article about Messier 66 people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Leo Triplet, NGC 3628, Messier 65, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and Intermediate spiral galaxy.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: M66
bg: M66
eo: M66
zhminnan: Messier 66
he: M66

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