Madras

Quality:

Chennai - city and state capital of Tamil Nadu, India. This city is the 144^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 370^th most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Madras” in French Wikipedia has 67.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 56 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

The 370^th most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6829^th most popular in all topics.

The 3085^th most popular in AI.

The 144^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7396^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Madras”, its content was written by 213 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 4421 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3085^th place).

Chennai is on the 370^th place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 144^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2199 times in French Wikipedia (5823^rd place) and cited 51939 times in all languages (3054^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #905 in December 2021
• Global: #169 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #6986 in July 2009
• Global: #2891 in December 2015

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	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		100
2	Arabic (ar) تشيناي		100
3	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		97.5
4	English (en) Chennai		96.5324
5	German (de) Chennai		85.3788
6	Chinese (zh) 金奈		80.5521
7	Slovenian (sl) Čenaj		79.0818
8	Malay (ms) Chennai		68.7995
9	French (fr) Madras		67.6056
10	Indonesian (id) Chennai		61.9158

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chennai		24 701 097
2	German (de) Chennai		1 254 584
3	French (fr) Madras		992 312
4	Japanese (ja) チェンナイ		827 942
5	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		804 394
6	Spanish (es) Chennai		647 679
7	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		638 294
8	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		619 968
9	Italian (it) Chennai		553 916
10	Norwegian (no) Chennai		441 116

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) Chennai		98 977
2	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		4 485
3	German (de) Chennai		3 849
4	Japanese (ja) チェンナイ		3 558
5	Chinese (zh) 金奈		3 495
6	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		3 494
7	French (fr) Madras		2 880
8	Spanish (es) Chennai		2 809
9	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		2 033
10	Italian (it) Chennai		1 950

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chennai		1 891
2	German (de) Chennai		295
3	French (fr) Madras		213
4	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		170
5	Italian (it) Chennai		129
6	Dutch (nl) Chennai		111
7	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		103
8	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		102
9	Chinese (zh) 金奈		87
10	Spanish (es) Chennai		79

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	English (en) Chennai		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Çennai		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Ĉenajo		1
4	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		1
5	Dutch (nl) Chennai		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Chenai		1
7	Simple English (simple) Chennai		1
8	Arabic (ar) تشيناي		0
9	Belarusian (be) Чэнаі		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ченай		0

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

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