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Messier 61

Quality:

Messier 61 - Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Article “Messier 61” in English Wikipedia has 62.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 47 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Messier 61”, its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 778 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7898 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #23060 in August 2004
  • Global: #6331 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #235273 in May 2020
  • Global: #273450 in May 2020

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
1Turkish (tr)
Messier 61
66.3272
2English (en)
Messier 61
62.769
3French (fr)
M61 (galaxie)
55.5356
4Swedish (sv)
Messier 61
49.8332
5German (de)
Messier 61
45.8802
6Czech (cs)
Messier 61
40.4239
7Italian (it)
M61 (astronomia)
35.3016
8Japanese (ja)
M61 (天体)
34.0021
9Chinese (zh)
M61 (螺旋星系)
32.6935
10Polish (pl)
Messier 61
32.5267
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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 61" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Messier 61
170 470
2Russian (ru)
M 61 (галактика)
37 937
3German (de)
Messier 61
29 820
4Japanese (ja)
M61 (天体)
28 798
5Spanish (es)
Galaxia espiral M61
27 181
6Polish (pl)
Messier 61
22 214
7French (fr)
M61 (galaxie)
20 493
8Portuguese (pt)
Messier 61
15 624
9Italian (it)
M61 (astronomia)
15 532
10Chinese (zh)
M61 (螺旋星系)
13 023
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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 61" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Messier 61
817
2Japanese (ja)
M61 (天体)
172
3German (de)
Messier 61
125
4Chinese (zh)
M61 (螺旋星系)
118
5Spanish (es)
Galaxia espiral M61
96
6Russian (ru)
M 61 (галактика)
96
7French (fr)
M61 (galaxie)
72
8Italian (it)
M61 (astronomia)
55
9Polish (pl)
Messier 61
39
10Czech (cs)
Messier 61
27
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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 61" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Messier 61
109
2German (de)
Messier 61
67
3French (fr)
M61 (galaxie)
57
4Dutch (nl)
Messier 61
48
5Italian (it)
M61 (astronomia)
45
6Russian (ru)
M 61 (галактика)
38
7Croatian (hr)
Messier 61
32
8Hungarian (hu)
Messier 61
27
9Japanese (ja)
M61 (天体)
19
10Esperanto (eo)
M61
16
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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 61" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
NGC 4303
1
2Czech (cs)
Messier 61
1
3German (de)
Messier 61
1
4Arabic (ar)
مسييه 61
0
5Belarusian (be)
M61 (аб’ект Месье)
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
M61
0
7Catalan (ca)
Messier 61
0
8Greek (el)
Μεσιέ 61
0
9English (en)
Messier 61
0
10Esperanto (eo)
M61
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 61" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Messier 61
778
2French (fr)
M61 (galaxie)
770
3Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Messier 61
594
4Romanian (ro)
Messier 61
564
5Arabic (ar)
مسييه 61
428
6Basque (eu)
Messier 61
407
7Croatian (hr)
Messier 61
329
8Dutch (nl)
Messier 61
310
9Chinese (zh)
M61 (螺旋星系)
304
10Greek (el)
Μεσιέ 61
216
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مسييه 61
azAzerbaijani
NGC 4303
beBelarusian
M61 (аб’ект Месье)
bgBulgarian
M61
caCatalan
Messier 61
csCzech
Messier 61
deGerman
Messier 61
elGreek
Μεσιέ 61
enEnglish
Messier 61
eoEsperanto
M61
esSpanish
Galaxia espiral M61
etEstonian
Messier 61
euBasque
Messier 61
faPersian
مسیه ۶۱
fiFinnish
Messier 61
frFrench
M61 (galaxie)
heHebrew
M61
hrCroatian
Messier 61
huHungarian
Messier 61
idIndonesian
Messier 61
itItalian
M61 (astronomia)
jaJapanese
M61 (天体)
koKorean
메시에 61
ltLithuanian
Mesjė 61
nlDutch
Messier 61
noNorwegian
Messier 61
plPolish
Messier 61
ptPortuguese
Messier 61
roRomanian
Messier 61
ruRussian
M 61 (галактика)
shSerbo-Croatian
Messier 61
skSlovak
Messier 61
srSerbian
Месје 61
svSwedish
Messier 61
trTurkish
Messier 61
ukUkrainian
Мессьє 61
viVietnamese
Messier 61
zhChinese
M61 (螺旋星系)
zhminnanMin Nan
Messier 61

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#235273
05.2020
Global:
#273450
05.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#23060
08.2004
Global:
#6331
02.2011

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Messier 61 from Wikipedia articles about Messier object, Virgo Cluster, List of most massive black holes, Virgo II Groups and List of Messier objects. Whereas reading the article about Messier 61 people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Virgo II Groups, Messier object, Messier 99, NGC 4301 and SN 2020jfo.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

eo: M61
bg: M61
he: M61
zhminnan: Messier 61

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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