Very Large Telescope

Very Large Telescope - telescope facility in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Article “Very Large Telescope” in English Wikipedia has 85.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 13 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 “Very Large Telescope”, its content was written by 270 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1053 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 711 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4338 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2630 in November 2002
• Global: #5608 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31075 in February 2025
• Global: #49625 in February 2025

There are 41 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	English (en) Very Large Telescope		85.3175
2	Italian (it) Very Large Telescope		57.2484
3	Greek (el) Πολύ Μεγάλο Τηλεσκόπιο		49.021
4	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		46.0425
5	Catalan (ca) Very Large Telescope		43.9792
6	Chinese (zh) 甚大望远镜		41.8862
7	French (fr) Très Grand Télescope		41.494
8	Turkish (tr) Very Large Telescope		37.8082
9	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		36.7014
10	Simple English (simple) Very Large Telescope		36.0402

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Very Large Telescope" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Very Large Telescope		1 737 995
2	French (fr) Très Grand Télescope		302 224
3	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		243 688
4	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		209 303
5	Italian (it) Very Large Telescope		105 531
6	Polish (pl) Very Large Telescope		95 126
7	Japanese (ja) 超大型望遠鏡VLT		72 715
8	Dutch (nl) Very Large Telescope		55 618
9	Chinese (zh) 甚大望远镜		54 407
10	Portuguese (pt) Very Large Telescope		51 152

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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 "Very Large Telescope" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Very Large Telescope		8 911
2	French (fr) Très Grand Télescope		959
3	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		886
4	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		529
5	Japanese (ja) 超大型望遠鏡VLT		425
6	Chinese (zh) 甚大望远镜		375
7	Simple English (simple) Very Large Telescope		368
8	Italian (it) Very Large Telescope		294
9	Dutch (nl) Very Large Telescope		280
10	Polish (pl) Very Large Telescope		258

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Very Large Telescope		270
2	French (fr) Très Grand Télescope		153
3	Italian (it) Very Large Telescope		82
4	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		69
5	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		49
6	Dutch (nl) Very Large Telescope		40
7	Polish (pl) Very Large Telescope		29
8	Hungarian (hu) Very Large Telescope		27
9	Hebrew (he) הטלסקופ הגדול מאוד		24
10	Chinese (zh) 甚大望远镜		24

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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 "Very Large Telescope" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		1
2	Arabic (ar) المقراب الكبير جدا		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Very Large Telescope		0
4	Catalan (ca) Very Large Telescope		0
5	Czech (cs) Very Large Telescope		0
6	Danish (da) Very Large Telescope		0
7	Greek (el) Πολύ Μεγάλο Τηλεσκόπιο		0
8	English (en) Very Large Telescope		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Tre Granda Teleskopo		0
10	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		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 "Very Large Telescope" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Very Large Telescope		711
2	French (fr) Très Grand Télescope		445
3	Italian (it) Very Large Telescope		252
4	Chinese (zh) 甚大望远镜		252
5	Russian (ru) Very Large Telescope		242
6	Arabic (ar) المقراب الكبير جدا		223
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дуже великий телескоп		180
8	Spanish (es) Very Large Telescope		179
9	Japanese (ja) 超大型望遠鏡VLT		170
10	Polish (pl) Very Large Telescope		167

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic المقراب الكبير جدا
bg	Bulgarian Very Large Telescope
ca	Catalan Very Large Telescope
cs	Czech Very Large Telescope
da	Danish Very Large Telescope
el	Greek Πολύ Μεγάλο Τηλεσκόπιο
en	English Very Large Telescope
eo	Esperanto Tre Granda Teleskopo
es	Spanish Very Large Telescope
et	Estonian Väga Suur Teleskoop
eu	Basque Very Large Telescope
fa	Persian تلسکوپ بسیار بزرگ
fi	Finnish Very Large Telescope
fr	French Très Grand Télescope
he	Hebrew הטלסקופ הגדול מאוד
hr	Croatian Vrlo veliki teleskop
hu	Hungarian Very Large Telescope
hy	Armenian Շատ մեծ աստղադիտակ
id	Indonesian Very Large Telescope
it	Italian Very Large Telescope
ja	Japanese 超大型望遠鏡VLT
ko	Korean VLT (망원경)
ms	Malay Very Large Telescope
nl	Dutch Very Large Telescope
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Very Large Telescope
no	Norwegian Very Large Telescope
pl	Polish Very Large Telescope
pt	Portuguese Very Large Telescope
ro	Romanian Very Large Telescope
ru	Russian Very Large Telescope
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vrlo veliki teleskop
simple	Simple English Very Large Telescope
sk	Slovak Very Large Telescope
sl	Slovenian Zelo velik teleskop
sr	Serbian Веома велики телескоп
sv	Swedish Very Large Telescope
th	Thai กล้องโทรทรรศน์ขนาดใหญ่มาก
tr	Turkish Very Large Telescope
uk	Ukrainian Дуже великий телескоп
vi	Vietnamese Kính thiên văn Rất Lớn
zh	Chinese 甚大望远镜

Best Rank

English: #31075 02.2025

Global: #49625 02.2025

Best Rank

English: #2630 11.2002

Global: #5608 11.2002

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