Messier 72

Messier 72 - Globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius. Article “Messier 72” in English Wikipedia has 38.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Messier 72”, its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 530 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 608 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73929 in July 2006
• Global: #3964 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #361186 in May 2010
• Global: #391828 in May 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	French (fr) M72 (amas globulaire)		45.8755
2	Chinese (zh) M72 (球狀星團)		44.94
3	Portuguese (pt) Messier 72		38.7238
4	English (en) Messier 72		38.6535
5	Russian (ru) M 72 (звёздное скопление)		35.3705
6	Swedish (sv) Messier 72		33.6869
7	Czech (cs) Messier 72		33.6132
8	German (de) Messier 72		33.3487
9	Turkish (tr) Messier 72		33.1338
10	Indonesian (id) Messier 72		30.0806

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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 72" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 72		92 131
2	Spanish (es) Cúmulo globular M72		22 501
3	Polish (pl) Messier 72		20 530
4	Russian (ru) M 72 (звёздное скопление)		18 266
5	German (de) Messier 72		13 509
6	Japanese (ja) M72 (天体)		13 019
7	Italian (it) M72 (astronomia)		12 734
8	French (fr) M72 (amas globulaire)		11 886
9	Korean (ko) 메시에 72		11 169
10	Chinese (zh) M72 (球狀星團)		9 617

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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 72" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 72		223
2	Chinese (zh) M72 (球狀星團)		69
3	Japanese (ja) M72 (天体)		50
4	Spanish (es) Cúmulo globular M72		43
5	German (de) Messier 72		26
6	Italian (it) M72 (astronomia)		25
7	French (fr) M72 (amas globulaire)		23
8	Russian (ru) M 72 (звёздное скопление)		23
9	Hungarian (hu) Messier 72		21
10	Turkish (tr) Messier 72		19

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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 72" 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 72		56
2	German (de) Messier 72		50
3	Italian (it) M72 (astronomia)		48
4	French (fr) M72 (amas globulaire)		45
5	Russian (ru) M 72 (звёздное скопление)		37
6	Hungarian (hu) Messier 72		29
7	Dutch (nl) Messier 72		29
8	Croatian (hr) Messier 72		27
9	Japanese (ja) M72 (天体)		19
10	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 72		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 72" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مسييه 72		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 6981		0
3	Belarusian (be) M72 (аб’ект Месье)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) M72		0
5	Catalan (ca) Messier 72		0
6	Czech (cs) Messier 72		0
7	German (de) Messier 72		0
8	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 72		0
9	English (en) Messier 72		0
10	Esperanto (eo) M72		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 72" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Messier 72		608
2	French (fr) M72 (amas globulaire)		572
3	Romanian (ro) Messier 72		438
4	Basque (eu) Messier 72		392
5	Croatian (hr) Messier 72		335
6	Dutch (nl) Messier 72		327
7	Arabic (ar) مسييه 72		295
8	Chinese (zh) M72 (球狀星團)		233
9	Turkish (tr) Messier 72		189
10	German (de) Messier 72		158

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 72
az	Azerbaijani NGC 6981
be	Belarusian M72 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M72
ca	Catalan Messier 72
cs	Czech Messier 72
de	German Messier 72
el	Greek Μεσιέ 72
en	English Messier 72
eo	Esperanto M72
es	Spanish Cúmulo globular M72
et	Estonian Messier 72
eu	Basque Messier 72
fa	Persian مسیه ۷۲
fi	Finnish Messier 72
fr	French M72 (amas globulaire)
he	Hebrew M72
hr	Croatian Messier 72
hu	Hungarian Messier 72
id	Indonesian Messier 72
it	Italian M72 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M72 (天体)
ko	Korean 메시에 72
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 72
nl	Dutch Messier 72
no	Norwegian Messier 72
pl	Polish Messier 72
pt	Portuguese Messier 72
ro	Romanian Messier 72
ru	Russian M 72 (звёздное скопление)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 72
sk	Slovak Messier 72
sr	Serbian Месје 72
sv	Swedish Messier 72
tr	Turkish Messier 72
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 72
vi	Vietnamese Messier 72
zh	Chinese M72 (球狀星團)
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 72

Best Rank

English: #361186 05.2010

Global: #391828 05.2010

Best Rank

English: #73929 07.2006

Global: #3964 07.2011

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