Messier 66

Messier 66 - Spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo. Article “Messier 66” in English Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 7 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.

Since the creation of article “Messier 66”, its content was written by 99 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 681 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 588 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7315 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #31200 in September 2004
• Global: #5719 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #246638 in April 2010
• Global: #227808 in April 2010

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Messier 66		57.854
2	French (fr) M66 (galaxie)		52.0317
3	German (de) Messier 66		45.0002
4	Portuguese (pt) Messier 66		43.7704
5	Swedish (sv) Messier 66		41.4557
6	Czech (cs) Messier 66		39.2671
7	Turkish (tr) Messier 66		35.518
8	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M66		33.1153
9	Italian (it) M66 (astronomia)		31.0704
10	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 66		30.4535

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 66" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 66		216 135
2	German (de) Messier 66		48 078
3	Russian (ru) M 66 (галактика)		38 158
4	Japanese (ja) M66 (天体)		33 219
5	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M66		28 101
6	Polish (pl) Messier 66		25 877
7	Italian (it) M66 (astronomia)		23 155
8	Chinese (zh) M66		18 929
9	Portuguese (pt) Messier 66		18 202
10	Korean (ko) 메시에 66		12 923

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 66" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 66		748
2	German (de) Messier 66		137
3	French (fr) M66 (galaxie)		105
4	Chinese (zh) M66		94
5	Japanese (ja) M66 (天体)		93
6	Russian (ru) M 66 (галактика)		83
7	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M66		81
8	Italian (it) M66 (astronomia)		74
9	Polish (pl) Messier 66		35
10	Turkish (tr) Messier 66		31

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

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 66		99
2	German (de) Messier 66		75
3	French (fr) M66 (galaxie)		68
4	Italian (it) M66 (astronomia)		54
5	Russian (ru) M 66 (галактика)		37
6	Hungarian (hu) Messier 66		34
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 66		31
8	Dutch (nl) Messier 66		26
9	Japanese (ja) M66 (天体)		18
10	Esperanto (eo) M66		15

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

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Messier 66		1
2	Arabic (ar) مسييه 66		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 3627		0
4	Belarusian (be) M66 (аб’ект Месье)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) M66		0
6	Catalan (ca) Messier 66		0
7	German (de) Messier 66		0
8	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 66		0
9	English (en) Messier 66		0
10	Esperanto (eo) M66		0

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

Language versions of the article "Messier 66" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) M66 (galaxie)		628
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Messier 66		599
3	English (en) Messier 66		588
4	Romanian (ro) Messier 66		561
5	Basque (eu) Messier 66		402
6	Croatian (hr) Messier 66		337
7	Dutch (nl) Messier 66		324
8	Arabic (ar) مسييه 66		308
9	German (de) Messier 66		235
10	Chinese (zh) M66		193

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 66
az	Azerbaijani NGC 3627
be	Belarusian M66 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M66
ca	Catalan Messier 66
cs	Czech Messier 66
de	German Messier 66
el	Greek Μεσιέ 66
en	English Messier 66
eo	Esperanto M66
es	Spanish Galaxia espiral M66
et	Estonian Messier 66
eu	Basque Messier 66
fa	Persian مسیه ۶۶
fi	Finnish Messier 66
fr	French M66 (galaxie)
he	Hebrew M66
hr	Croatian Messier 66
hu	Hungarian Messier 66
id	Indonesian Messier 66
it	Italian M66 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M66 (天体)
ko	Korean 메시에 66
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 66
nl	Dutch Messier 66
no	Norwegian Messier 66
pl	Polish Messier 66
pt	Portuguese Messier 66
ro	Romanian Messier 66
ru	Russian M 66 (галактика)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 66
sk	Slovak Messier 66 (galaxia)
sr	Serbian Месје 66
sv	Swedish Messier 66
tr	Turkish Messier 66
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 66
vi	Vietnamese Messier 66
zh	Chinese M66
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 66

Best Rank

English: #246638 04.2010

Global: #227808 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #31200 09.2004

Global: #5719 02.2011

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