Messier 87

Quality:

Messier 87 - galaxy in the Virgo Galactic Cluster. Article “Messier 87” in English Wikipedia has 96.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 184 references and 15 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Messier 87” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Messier 87”, its content was written by 375 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1509 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1031 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9307 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #65 in April 2019
• Global: #37 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #392 in April 2019
• Global: #469 in April 2019

There are 44 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	Chinese (zh) 室女A星系		97.4345
2	English (en) Messier 87		96.8851
3	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 87		92.2598
4	Ukrainian (uk) Мессьє 87		91.0628
5	Czech (cs) Messier 87		87.0833
6	German (de) Messier 87		83.4146
7	French (fr) M87 (galaxie)		72.105
8	Portuguese (pt) Messier 87		63.4415
9	Korean (ko) 처녀자리 A 은하		56.9252
10	Turkish (tr) Messier 87		50.3346

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 87		3 683 729
2	German (de) Messier 87		527 379
3	Russian (ru) M 87 (галактика)		505 723
4	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica M87		468 489
5	Japanese (ja) M87 (天体)		405 011
6	Chinese (zh) 室女A星系		201 905
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Panna A		186 443
8	Italian (it) Galassia Virgo A		163 612
9	Portuguese (pt) Messier 87		152 428
10	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 87		66 235

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) Messier 87		23 924
2	Russian (ru) M 87 (галактика)		3 159
3	Japanese (ja) M87 (天体)		2 250
4	German (de) Messier 87		1 884
5	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica M87		1 407
6	Chinese (zh) 室女A星系		1 118
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Panna A		748
8	French (fr) M87 (galaxie)		701
9	Italian (it) Galassia Virgo A		578
10	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 87		414

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 87		375
2	German (de) Messier 87		140
3	French (fr) M87 (galaxie)		117
4	Russian (ru) M 87 (галактика)		83
5	Italian (it) Galassia Virgo A		81
6	Dutch (nl) Messier 87		53
7	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 87		53
8	Japanese (ja) M87 (天体)		48
9	Hungarian (hu) Messier 87		40
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мессьє 87		39

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	German (de) Messier 87		2
2	Catalan (ca) Verge A		1
3	Czech (cs) Messier 87		1
4	English (en) Messier 87		1
5	Spanish (es) Galaxia elíptica M87		1
6	Japanese (ja) M87 (天体)		1
7	Simple English (simple) Messier 87		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Мессьє 87		1
9	Chinese (zh) 室女A星系		1
10	Arabic (ar) مسييه 87		0

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

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