Milky Way

Quality:

Milky Way - spiral galaxy in the Local Group containing the Solar System; its appearance across the night sky in areas with little to no light pollution. Article “Milky Way” in English Wikipedia has 79.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 368 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.09 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1754^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 902^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 979^th most popular in all topics.

The 775^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5210^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2922^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3310^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Milky Way” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 35 authors in all languages (3310^th place).

Since the creation of article “Milky Way”, its content was written by 1977 registered users of English Wikipedia (902^nd place) and edited by 6991 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (775^th place).

The article is cited 3066 times in English Wikipedia (9667^th place) and cited 84067 times in all languages (1962^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #303 in May 2002
• Global: #53 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1061 in September 2009
• Global: #546 in April 2019

There are 54 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	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Чумацький Шлях		100
3	Malay (ms) Bima Sakti		100
4	Romanian (ro) Calea Lactee		98.5304
5	Slovak (sk) Galaxia (Mliečna cesta)		98.2609
6	French (fr) Voie lactée		97.4574
7	Czech (cs) Galaxie Mléčná dráha		96.5799
8	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		92.1224
9	German (de) Milchstraße		89.9479
10	Chinese (zh) 银河系		85.7258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Milky Way		33 860 151
2	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		10 349 910
3	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		6 769 927
4	German (de) Milchstraße		5 698 308
5	French (fr) Voie lactée		4 042 174
6	Japanese (ja) 銀河系		3 950 551
7	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		3 254 462
8	Italian (it) Via Lattea		2 607 928
9	Polish (pl) Droga Mleczna		2 448 794
10	Chinese (zh) 银河系		1 982 347

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) Milky Way		101 631
2	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		20 489
3	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		15 023
4	German (de) Milchstraße		13 359
5	Japanese (ja) 銀河系		12 902
6	French (fr) Voie lactée		8 634
7	Chinese (zh) 银河系		7 661
8	Italian (it) Via Lattea		5 252
9	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		5 210
10	Polish (pl) Droga Mleczna		4 595

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Milky Way		1 977
2	German (de) Milchstraße		543
3	French (fr) Voie lactée		392
4	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		358
5	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		268
6	Dutch (nl) Melkweg (sterrenstelsel)		219
7	Italian (it) Via Lattea		206
8	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		174
9	Hebrew (he) שביל החלב		164
10	Chinese (zh) 银河系		148

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	French (fr) Voie lactée		7
2	English (en) Milky Way		6
3	Italian (it) Via Lattea		5
4	Czech (cs) Galaxie Mléčná dráha		4
5	Korean (ko) 우리 은하		2
6	Dutch (nl) Melkweg (sterrenstelsel)		2
7	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		2
8	Turkish (tr) Samanyolu		2
9	Arabic (ar) درب التبانة		1
10	Danish (da) Mælkevejen		1

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

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