Mercredi des Cendres

Quality:

Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent in the Western Christian and Catholic calendar. Article "Mercredi des Cendres" in French Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 8 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4759^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article "Mercredi des Cendres", its content was written by 129 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 2321 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 286 times in French Wikipedia and cited 5171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1130 in February 2021
• Global: #292 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #247 in March 2011
• Global: #50 in February 2012

There are 47 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Ash Wednesday		96.2002
2	Spanish (es) Miércoles de Ceniza		81.316
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thứ Tư Lễ Tro		66.6274
4	Bulgarian (bg) Пепеляна сряда		42.9873
5	Malay (ms) Rabu Abu		37.9801
6	German (de) Aschermittwoch		37.1666
7	Polish (pl) Popielec		34.4996
8	Tamil (ta) திருநீற்றுப் புதன்		32.9891
9	Latin (la) Dies Cinerum		31.6203
10	Croatian (hr) Čista srijeda		29.1033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ash Wednesday		18 890 470
2	Spanish (es) Miércoles de Ceniza		5 714 053
3	German (de) Aschermittwoch		2 847 514
4	Portuguese (pt) Quarta-feira de cinzas		1 641 436
5	French (fr) Mercredi des Cendres		1 568 715
6	Polish (pl) Popielec		1 550 151
7	Italian (it) Mercoledì delle ceneri		1 525 179
8	Dutch (nl) Aswoensdag		785 447
9	Czech (cs) Popeleční středa		668 967
10	Hungarian (hu) Hamvazószerda		575 529

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) Ash Wednesday		12 570
2	Spanish (es) Miércoles de Ceniza		2 366
3	German (de) Aschermittwoch		1 066
4	French (fr) Mercredi des Cendres		1 034
5	Japanese (ja) 灰の水曜日		753
6	Russian (ru) Пепельная среда		705
7	Italian (it) Mercoledì delle ceneri		597
8	Polish (pl) Popielec		460
9	Chinese (zh) 大齋首日		451
10	Dutch (nl) Aswoensdag		405

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ash Wednesday		641
2	German (de) Aschermittwoch		234
3	Spanish (es) Miércoles de Ceniza		160
4	French (fr) Mercredi des Cendres		129
5	Italian (it) Mercoledì delle ceneri		115
6	Dutch (nl) Aswoensdag		115
7	Polish (pl) Popielec		101
8	Swedish (sv) Askonsdagen		51
9	Russian (ru) Пепельная среда		49
10	Norwegian (no) Askeonsdag		48

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) Ash Wednesday		3
2	Spanish (es) Miércoles de Ceniza		2
3	German (de) Aschermittwoch		1
4	Dutch (nl) Aswoensdag		1
5	Arabic (ar) أربعاء الرماد		0
6	Belarusian (be) Папялец		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Пепеляна сряда		0
8	Catalan (ca) Dimecres de cendra		0
9	Czech (cs) Popeleční středa		0
10	Danish (da) Askeonsdag		0

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

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