U 505

Quality:

U-505 - 1941 Type IXC submarine. Article “U 505” in German Wikipedia has 37.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 17 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 “U 505”, its content was written by 114 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 699 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 172 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2653 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #4762 in March 2006
• Global: #9887 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #6657 in June 2023
• Global: #21112 in June 2014

There are 15 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	English (en) German submarine U-505		80.7352
2	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		69.4852
3	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		60.9198
4	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		43.4928
5	German (de) U 505		37.3255
6	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		36.2225
7	Hebrew (he) U-505		30.373
8	Portuguese (pt) U-505		25.2268
9	Slovenian (sl) U-505		22.5977
10	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		18.6139

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) German submarine U-505		2 701 083
2	German (de) U 505		381 587
3	Russian (ru) U-505		99 860
4	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		91 758
5	Polish (pl) U-505		87 582
6	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		77 280
7	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		75 716
8	Portuguese (pt) U-505		21 396
9	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		19 483
10	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		9 614

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		44 762
2	German (de) U 505		1 697
3	Japanese (ja) U505 (潜水艦)		731
4	Russian (ru) U-505		501
5	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		471
6	Chinese (zh) U-505号潜艇		346
7	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		259
8	Polish (pl) U-505		220
9	Portuguese (pt) U-505		110
10	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		88

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		333
2	German (de) U 505		114
3	French (fr) Unterseeboot 505		79
4	Dutch (nl) U 505 (Kriegsmarine)		26
5	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		25
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	English (en) German submarine U-505		14
2	Russian (ru) U-505		1
3	Arabic (ar) U-505		0
4	German (de) U 505		0
5	Spanish (es) U 505 (1941)		0
6	Persian (fa) زیردریایی یو-۵۰۵		0
7	French (fr) Unterseeboot 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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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information