Grande Dibattito

Great Debate - astronomy debate held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis about whether spiral nebulae were different galaxies or part of the Milky Way. Article “Grande Dibattito” in Italian Wikipedia has 21.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Grande Dibattito” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Grande Dibattito”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 357 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #21163 in February 2023
• Global: #23530 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #139920 in May 2016
• Global: #90366 in April 2020

There are 22 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	Japanese (ja) 大論争 (天文学)		48.2953
2	Ukrainian (uk) Велика суперечка		46.9174
3	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		43.535
4	Russian (ru) Большой спор		38.0656
5	Chinese (zh) 沙普利-柯蒂斯之争		29.2528
6	Swedish (sv) Shapley-Curtisdebatten		28.9163
7	Arabic (ar) نقاش كبير (علم الفلك)		28.0998
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tranh luận Shapley–Curtis		26.9843
9	Portuguese (pt) Grande Debate (astronomia)		24.2516
10	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		21.2973

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Grande Dibattito" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		577 406
2	Russian (ru) Большой спор		56 171
3	German (de) Shapley-Curtis-Debatte		34 000
4	Korean (ko) 대논쟁 (천문학)		31 999
5	French (fr) Grand Débat (astronomie)		28 356
6	Chinese (zh) 沙普利-柯蒂斯之争		26 733
7	Japanese (ja) 大論争 (天文学)		24 872
8	Polish (pl) Wielka Debata		22 994
9	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		20 696
10	Spanish (es) Gran Debate		17 929

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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 "Grande Dibattito" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		3 412
2	Japanese (ja) 大論争 (天文学)		202
3	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		154
4	Chinese (zh) 沙普利-柯蒂斯之争		135
5	French (fr) Grand Débat (astronomie)		115
6	Spanish (es) Gran Debate		106
7	Russian (ru) Большой спор		79
8	German (de) Shapley-Curtis-Debatte		62
9	Korean (ko) 대논쟁 (천문학)		46
10	Polish (pl) Wielka Debata		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		153
2	French (fr) Grand Débat (astronomie)		30
3	Russian (ru) Большой спор		29
4	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		24
5	German (de) Shapley-Curtis-Debatte		20
6	Japanese (ja) 大論争 (天文学)		15
7	Hebrew (he) הוויכוח הגדול		14
8	Finnish (fi) Suuri väittely		13
9	Swedish (sv) Shapley-Curtisdebatten		12
10	Hungarian (hu) Shapley–Curtis-vita		11

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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 "Grande Dibattito" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		2
2	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		1
3	Arabic (ar) نقاش كبير (علم الفلك)		0
4	Czech (cs) Velká debata		0
5	German (de) Shapley-Curtis-Debatte		0
6	Spanish (es) Gran Debate		0
7	Finnish (fi) Suuri väittely		0
8	French (fr) Grand Débat (astronomie)		0
9	Hebrew (he) הוויכוח הגדול		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Shapley–Curtis-vita		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 "Grande Dibattito" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Great Debate (astronomy)		128
2	French (fr) Grand Débat (astronomie)		28
3	Chinese (zh) 沙普利-柯蒂斯之争		27
4	Turkish (tr) Büyük Tartışma		21
5	Italian (it) Grande Dibattito		18
6	Korean (ko) 대논쟁 (천문학)		18
7	German (de) Shapley-Curtis-Debatte		14
8	Hebrew (he) הוויכוח הגדול		13
9	Russian (ru) Большой спор		12
10	Ukrainian (uk) Велика суперечка		11

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقاش كبير (علم الفلك)
cs	Czech Velká debata
de	German Shapley-Curtis-Debatte
en	English Great Debate (astronomy)
es	Spanish Gran Debate
fi	Finnish Suuri väittely
fr	French Grand Débat (astronomie)
he	Hebrew הוויכוח הגדול
hu	Hungarian Shapley–Curtis-vita
hy	Armenian Մեծ բանավեճ (աստղագիտություն)
it	Italian Grande Dibattito
ja	Japanese 大論争 (天文学)
ko	Korean 대논쟁 (천문학)
no	Norwegian Den store debatten
pl	Polish Wielka Debata
pt	Portuguese Grande Debate (astronomia)
ru	Russian Большой спор
sv	Swedish Shapley-Curtisdebatten
tr	Turkish Büyük Tartışma
uk	Ukrainian Велика суперечка
vi	Vietnamese Tranh luận Shapley–Curtis
zh	Chinese 沙普利-柯蒂斯之争

Best Rank

Italian: #139920 05.2016

Global: #90366 04.2020

Best Rank

Italian: #21163 02.2023

Global: #23530 04.2012

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