U 505

Quality:

U-505 - 1941 Type IXC submarine. Article “U 505” in German Wikipedia has 35.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 16 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “U 505” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “U 505”, its content was written by 115 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 711 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 172 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3397 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #4844 in March 2006
• Global: #9917 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #6656 in June 2023
• Global: #21588 in June 2014

There are 16 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) German submarine U-505		81.8048
2	Vietnamese (vi) U-505 (tàu ngầm Đức)		76.004
3	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		72.7156
4	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		60.05
5	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		43.1694
6	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		36.1817
7	German (de) U 505		35.7003
8	Hebrew (he) U-505		30.1445
9	Portuguese (pt) U-505		25.1413
10	Slovenian (sl) U-505		22.546

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) German submarine U-505		2 865 964
2	German (de) U 505		403 960
3	Russian (ru) U-505		106 816
4	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		98 694
5	Polish (pl) U-505		90 651
6	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		81 390
7	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		78 915
8	Portuguese (pt) U-505		22 218
9	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		20 406
10	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		11 962

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) German submarine U-505		14 231
2	German (de) U 505		1 912
3	Russian (ru) U-505		1 098
4	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		645
5	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		311
6	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		277
7	Polish (pl) U-505		257
8	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		230
9	Portuguese (pt) U-505		57
10	Ukrainian (uk) U-505		53

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) German submarine U-505		341
2	German (de) U 505		115
3	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		80
4	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		26
5	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		26
6	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		22
7	Polish (pl) U-505		22
8	Portuguese (pt) U-505		21
9	Russian (ru) U-505		21
10	Hebrew (he) U-505		14

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) U 505		1
2	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		1
3	Persian (fa) زیردریایی یو-۵۰۵		1
4	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) U-505 (tàu ngầm Đức)		1
6	Arabic (ar) U-505		0
7	English (en) German submarine U-505		0
8	Hebrew (he) U-505		0
9	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		0
10	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		0

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

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