Via Lattea

Quality:

Milky Way - galaxy containing our Solar System. Article “Via Lattea” in Italian Wikipedia has 76.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 87 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 3232^nd most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 5065^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 986^th most popular in all topics.

The 779^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 8314^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1928^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2993^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2185^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Via Lattea” was edited by 5 authors in Italian Wikipedia (1928^th place) and written by 44 authors in all languages (2185^th place).

Since the creation of article “Via Lattea”, its content was written by 210 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (5065^th place) and edited by 7065 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (779^th place).

The article is cited 3905 times in Italian Wikipedia (1646^th place) and cited 86245 times in all languages (1980^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #499 in November 2003
• Global: #52 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1509 in July 2015
• Global: #551 in April 2019

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, 2026 (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	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Чумацький Шлях		100
3	Malay (ms) Bima Sakti		100
4	Romanian (ro) Calea Lactee		98.506
5	Slovak (sk) Galaxia (Mliečna cesta)		98.2609
6	French (fr) Voie lactée		97.2753
7	Czech (cs) Galaxie Mléčná dráha		96.5307
8	Georgian (ka) ირმის ნახტომი		95.7143
9	German (de) Milchstraße		95
10	English (en) Milky Way		94.2978

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Milky Way		35 466 129
2	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		10 543 963
3	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		7 473 369
4	German (de) Milchstraße		5 943 637
5	French (fr) Voie lactée		4 183 709
6	Japanese (ja) 銀河系		4 108 475
7	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		3 320 291
8	Italian (it) Via Lattea		2 689 708
9	Polish (pl) Droga Mleczna		2 529 192
10	Chinese (zh) 银河系		2 074 427

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) Milky Way		96 097
2	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		17 941
3	German (de) Milchstraße		13 878
4	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		11 569
5	Japanese (ja) 銀河系		10 226
6	French (fr) Voie lactée		9 334
7	Chinese (zh) 银河系		5 869
8	Italian (it) Via Lattea		5 389
9	Polish (pl) Droga Mleczna		5 056
10	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		4 698

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Milky Way		2 013
2	German (de) Milchstraße		567
3	French (fr) Voie lactée		403
4	Spanish (es) Vía Láctea		361
5	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		272
6	Dutch (nl) Melkweg (sterrenstelsel)		221
7	Italian (it) Via Lattea		210
8	Portuguese (pt) Via Láctea		177
9	Hebrew (he) שביל החלב		169
10	Chinese (zh) 银河系		157

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) Milky Way		6
2	German (de) Milchstraße		5
3	Italian (it) Via Lattea		5
4	French (fr) Voie lactée		4
5	Dutch (nl) Melkweg (sterrenstelsel)		3
6	Hebrew (he) שביל החלב		2
7	Georgian (ka) ირმის ნახტომი		2
8	Russian (ru) Млечный Путь		2
9	Turkish (tr) Samanyolu		2
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чумацький Шлях		2

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

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