Messier 61

Messier 61 - Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Article “Messier 61” in Basque Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

Since the creation of article “Messier 61”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 668 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 410 times in Basque Wikipedia (7456^th place) and cited 7873 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #1334 in December 2023
• Global: #6338 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #56507 in June 2022
• Global: #275348 in May 2020

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, 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) Messier 61		62.2294
2	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		54.9271
3	Swedish (sv) Messier 61		50.313
4	German (de) Messier 61		42.4408
5	Czech (cs) Messier 61		40.8626
6	Italian (it) M61 (astronomia)		34.2389
7	Japanese (ja) M61 (天体)		34.0556
8	Chinese (zh) M61 (螺旋星系)		32.6999
9	Polish (pl) Messier 61		32.5402
10	Russian (ru) M 61 (галактика)		32.3961

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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 61" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 61		158 838
2	Russian (ru) M 61 (галактика)		36 168
3	German (de) Messier 61		28 337
4	Japanese (ja) M61 (天体)		26 892
5	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M61		26 093
6	Polish (pl) Messier 61		21 853
7	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		19 424
8	Portuguese (pt) Messier 61		15 371
9	Italian (it) M61 (astronomia)		15 055
10	Chinese (zh) M61 (螺旋星系)		12 038

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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 61" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 61		1 769
2	German (de) Messier 61		164
3	Japanese (ja) M61 (天体)		144
4	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		113
5	Russian (ru) M 61 (галактика)		106
6	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M61		85
7	Chinese (zh) M61 (螺旋星系)		63
8	Dutch (nl) Messier 61		56
9	Korean (ko) 메시에 61		44
10	Polish (pl) Messier 61		36

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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 61" 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 61		104
2	German (de) Messier 61		65
3	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		55
4	Dutch (nl) Messier 61		48
5	Italian (it) M61 (astronomia)		45
6	Russian (ru) M 61 (галактика)		37
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 61		32
8	Hungarian (hu) Messier 61		26
9	Japanese (ja) M61 (天体)		19
10	Esperanto (eo) M61		16

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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 61" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 61		3
2	German (de) Messier 61		1
3	Esperanto (eo) M61		1
4	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Messier 61		1
6	Arabic (ar) مسييه 61		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 4303		0
8	Belarusian (be) M61 (аб’ект Месье)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) M61		0
10	Catalan (ca) Messier 61		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 61" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) M61 (galaxie)		769
2	English (en) Messier 61		699
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Messier 61		594
4	Romanian (ro) Messier 61		563
5	Arabic (ar) مسييه 61		433
6	Basque (eu) Messier 61		410
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 61		331
8	Dutch (nl) Messier 61		311
9	Chinese (zh) M61 (螺旋星系)		303
10	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 61		210

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 61
az	Azerbaijani NGC 4303
be	Belarusian M61 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M61
ca	Catalan Messier 61
cs	Czech Messier 61
de	German Messier 61
el	Greek Μεσιέ 61
en	English Messier 61
eo	Esperanto M61
es	Spanish Galaxia espiral M61
et	Estonian Messier 61
eu	Basque Messier 61
fa	Persian مسیه ۶۱
fi	Finnish Messier 61
fr	French M61 (galaxie)
he	Hebrew M61
hr	Croatian Messier 61
hu	Hungarian Messier 61
id	Indonesian Messier 61
it	Italian M61 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M61 (天体)
ko	Korean 메시에 61
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 61
nl	Dutch Messier 61
no	Norwegian Messier 61
pl	Polish Messier 61
pt	Portuguese Messier 61
ro	Romanian Messier 61
ru	Russian M 61 (галактика)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 61
sk	Slovak Messier 61
sr	Serbian Месје 61
sv	Swedish Messier 61
tr	Turkish Messier 61
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 61
vi	Vietnamese Messier 61
zh	Chinese M61 (螺旋星系)
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 61

Best Rank

Basque: #56507 06.2022

Global: #275348 05.2020

Best Rank

Basque: #1334 12.2023

Global: #6338 02.2011

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