Transit of Mercury

Quality:

Transit of Mercury - a transit of Mercury across the Sun. Article “Transit of Mercury” in English Wikipedia has 75 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 82 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.33 points.

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 “Transit of Mercury”, its content was written by 175 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 773 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 598 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #758 in May 2016
• Global: #488 in May 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6738 in May 2016
• Global: #7488 in May 2016

There are 35 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) Transit of Mercury		75.0018
2	Greek (el) Διάβαση του Ερμή		71.6978
3	Vietnamese (vi) Sự đi qua của Sao Thủy		58.3668
4	German (de) Merkurtransit		55.7786
5	Chinese (zh) 水星凌日		45.95
6	Arabic (ar) عبور عطارد		37.8612
7	Croatian (hr) Merkurov prijelaz		37.5249
8	Hebrew (he) מעבר כוכב חמה על פני השמש		37.124
9	Dutch (nl) Mercuriusovergang		34.4431
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Merkurov prijelaz		34.3902

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transit of Mercury		991 435
2	German (de) Merkurtransit		177 554
3	Spanish (es) Tránsito de Mercurio		151 975
4	Japanese (ja) 水星の太陽面通過		105 879
5	Russian (ru) Прохождение Меркурия по диску Солнца		105 545
6	French (fr) Transit de Mercure		101 694
7	Polish (pl) Tranzyt Merkurego		93 475
8	Chinese (zh) 水星凌日		81 959
9	Italian (it) Transito di Mercurio dalla Terra		64 402
10	Dutch (nl) Mercuriusovergang		44 553

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) Transit of Mercury		1 941
2	German (de) Merkurtransit		265
3	French (fr) Transit de Mercure		210
4	Chinese (zh) 水星凌日		205
5	Russian (ru) Прохождение Меркурия по диску Солнца		200
6	Spanish (es) Tránsito de Mercurio		129
7	Japanese (ja) 水星の太陽面通過		127
8	Italian (it) Transito di Mercurio dalla Terra		101
9	Polish (pl) Tranzyt Merkurego		96
10	Dutch (nl) Mercuriusovergang		61

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Transit of Mercury		175
2	German (de) Merkurtransit		94
3	French (fr) Transit de Mercure		64
4	Dutch (nl) Mercuriusovergang		44
5	Italian (it) Transito di Mercurio dalla Terra		36
6	Chinese (zh) 水星凌日		31
7	Spanish (es) Tránsito de Mercurio		28
8	Russian (ru) Прохождение Меркурия по диску Солнца		27
9	Swedish (sv) Merkuriuspassage		21
10	Japanese (ja) 水星の太陽面通過		18

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	Greek (el) Διάβαση του Ερμή		1
2	Basque (eu) Merkurioren trantsitu		1
3	French (fr) Transit de Mercure		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Sự đi qua của Sao Thủy		1
5	Arabic (ar) عبور عطارد		0
6	Belarusian (be) Праходжанне Меркурыя па дыску Сонца		0
7	Catalan (ca) Trànsit de Mercuri		0
8	Czech (cs) Přechod Merkuru		0
9	Danish (da) Merkurpassage		0
10	German (de) Merkurtransit		0

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

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