Eddy Merckx

Quality:

Eddy Merckx - Belgian cyclist (born 1945). This person is the 7057^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 271^st most popular person in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “Eddy Merckx” in Dutch Wikipedia has 87.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

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The 933^rd most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 758^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 271^st most popular in people in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7057^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 43^rd most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

nl

The 674^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8501^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7436^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Eddy Merckx” was edited by 4 authors in Dutch Wikipedia (674^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7436^th place).

Since the creation of article “Eddy Merckx”, its content was written by 276 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (758^th place) and edited by 2338 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Eddy Merckx is on the 271^st place in local ranking of people in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 7057^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 714 times in Dutch Wikipedia (6512^th place) and cited 12848 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #52 in July 2019
• Global: #229 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #27 in July 2019
• Global: #1373 in July 2019

There are 41 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) Eddy Merckx		100
2	Turkish (tr) Eddy Merckx		100
3	Bulgarian (bg) Еди Меркс		99.0476
4	Catalan (ca) Eddy Merckx		98.8235
5	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		97.1472
6	Norwegian (no) Eddy Merckx		95
7	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		91.629
8	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		87.3657
9	German (de) Eddy Merckx		71.7948
10	Simple English (simple) Eddy Merckx		54.4941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eddy Merckx		4 076 750
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		2 275 293
3	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		1 580 947
4	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		1 508 215
5	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		1 173 451
6	German (de) Eddy Merckx		1 038 177
7	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		342 602
8	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		228 706
9	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		196 678
10	Portuguese (pt) Eddy Merckx		139 092

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		29 197
2	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		27 265
3	English (en) Eddy Merckx		24 349
4	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		15 671
5	German (de) Eddy Merckx		14 632
6	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		7 366
7	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		1 621
8	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		1 215
9	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		970
10	Portuguese (pt) Eddy Merckx		879

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eddy Merckx		413
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		345
3	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		276
4	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		209
5	German (de) Eddy Merckx		198
6	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		84
7	Norwegian (no) Eddy Merckx		67
8	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		62
9	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		58
10	Hebrew (he) אדי מרקס		52

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) Eddy Merckx		7
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		4
3	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		4
4	German (de) Eddy Merckx		3
5	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		2
6	Simple English (simple) Eddy Merckx		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) Еди Меркс		1
8	Hebrew (he) אדי מרקס		1
9	Arabic (ar) إيدي ميركس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Eddi Merks		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information