MSN Messenger

Quality:

Windows Live Messenger - deprecated instant messaging client. This software is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 36^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “MSN Messenger” in English Wikipedia has 86.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 99 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3266^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 36^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3703^rd most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in software.

In June 2025 the article “MSN Messenger” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “MSN Messenger”, its content was written by 1311 registered users of English Wikipedia (3266^th place) and edited by 4072 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3703^rd place).

Windows Live Messenger is on the 36^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 350 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3403 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #452 in November 2005
• Global: #519 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #90 in June 2008
• Global: #79 in June 2008

There are 40 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) MSN Messenger		86.857
2	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		70.2253
3	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		44.7311
4	Catalan (ca) Windows Live Messenger		44.6281
5	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		43.8838
6	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		42.2558
7	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		39.37
8	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		39.3016
9	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Live Messenger		36.202
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		34.5722

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) MSN Messenger		12 083 895
2	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		3 082 311
3	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		2 708 278
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		1 433 591
5	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		1 274 129
6	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		1 164 869
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		737 614
8	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		483 888
9	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		434 492
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		402 049

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) MSN Messenger		12 010
2	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		1 986
3	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		1 559
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		1 010
5	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		935
6	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		817
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		474
8	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		463
9	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		402
10	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		386

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) MSN Messenger		1 311
2	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		378
3	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		262
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		260
5	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		206
6	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		189
7	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		166
8	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		152
9	Turkish (tr) Windows Live Messenger		96
10	Finnish (fi) Windows Live Messenger		95

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) MSN Messenger		4
2	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		1
3	Polish (pl) Windows Live Messenger		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		1
5	Tamil (ta) வின்டோசு லைவ் மெசஞ்சர்		1
6	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Windows Live Messenger		0
8	Catalan (ca) Windows Live Messenger		0
9	Czech (cs) Windows Live Messenger		0
10	Danish (da) Windows Live Messenger		0

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

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