Antikythera mechanism

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Antikythera mechanism - ancient analog computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. This event is the 168^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 151^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "Antikythera mechanism" in English Wikipedia has 95.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 239 references and 20 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7926^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 5645^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 151^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8368^th most popular in all topics.

The 6294^th most popular in AI.

The 168^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5523^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 3057^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4993^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5324^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Antikythera mechanism" was edited by 17 authors in English Wikipedia (3057^th place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (5324^th place).

Since the creation of article "Antikythera mechanism", its content was written by 1031 registered users of English Wikipedia (5645^th place) and edited by 3094 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6294^th place).

Antikythera mechanism is on the 151^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 168^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 332 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1977 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26 in May 2017
• Global: #46 in May 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48 in May 2017
• Global: #21 in May 2017

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Anticitera		98.5714
2	German (de) Mechanismus von Antikythera		97.1429
3	English (en) Antikythera mechanism		95.5998
4	Finnish (fi) Antikytheran kone		91.7448
5	Chinese (zh) 安提基特拉机械		85.1078
6	Greek (el) Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων		60.5682
7	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Anticítera		53.1396
8	Russian (ru) Антикитерский механизм		48.4094
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cỗ máy Antikythera		45.5978
10	Hebrew (he) מנגנון אנטיקיתרה		42.0658

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Antikythera mechanism		15 087 850
2	Japanese (ja) アンティキティラ島の機械		2 373 638
3	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Anticitera		2 127 551
4	Russian (ru) Антикитерский механизм		1 719 882
5	French (fr) Machine d'Anticythère		1 476 350
6	German (de) Mechanismus von Antikythera		1 224 423
7	Italian (it) Macchina di Anticitera		825 426
8	Greek (el) Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων		823 750
9	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Anticítera		753 765
10	Polish (pl) Mechanizm z Antykithiry		537 192

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) Antikythera mechanism		107 028
2	German (de) Mechanismus von Antikythera		14 918
3	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Anticitera		13 505
4	French (fr) Machine d'Anticythère		13 398
5	Japanese (ja) アンティキティラ島の機械		11 130
6	Italian (it) Macchina di Anticitera		7 563
7	Russian (ru) Антикитерский механизм		7 419
8	Polish (pl) Mechanizm z Antykithiry		4 653
9	Greek (el) Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων		3 034
10	Chinese (zh) 安提基特拉机械		2 655

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Antikythera mechanism		1 031
2	German (de) Mechanismus von Antikythera		309
3	French (fr) Machine d'Anticythère		245
4	Russian (ru) Антикитерский механизм		155
5	Italian (it) Macchina di Anticitera		136
6	Spanish (es) Mecanismo de Anticitera		112
7	Japanese (ja) アンティキティラ島の機械		88
8	Dutch (nl) Mechanisme van Antikythera		86
9	Greek (el) Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων		83
10	Hebrew (he) מנגנון אנטיקיתרה		66

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) Antikythera mechanism		17
2	German (de) Mechanismus von Antikythera		3
3	Italian (it) Macchina di Anticitera		2
4	Japanese (ja) アンティキティラ島の機械		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Anticítera		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Антикітерський механізм		2
7	Czech (cs) Mechanismus z Antikythéry		1
8	French (fr) Machine d'Anticythère		1
9	Dutch (nl) Mechanisme van Antikythera		1
10	Turkish (tr) Antikitera düzeneği		1

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

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