Mechelen (stad)

Quality:

Mechelen - city in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. This city is the 1376^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 60^th most popular city in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “Mechelen (stad)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 75.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 56 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

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The 1529^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 382^nd most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 60^th most popular in cities in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1376^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 1394^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 9956^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Mechelen (stad)” was edited by 1 authors in Dutch Wikipedia (9956^th place) and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mechelen (stad)”, its content was written by 331 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (382^nd place) and edited by 1791 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Mechelen is on the 60^th place in local ranking of cities in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 1376^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3294 times in Dutch Wikipedia (947^th place) and cited 14253 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #42 in October 2024
• Global: #1563 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #733 in October 2024
• Global: #51639 in September 2020

There are 43 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	Hungarian (hu) Mechelen (Belgium)		77.8708
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		75.9159
3	English (en) Mechelen		66.2325
4	French (fr) Malines		65.4115
5	Greek (el) Μέχελεν		55.4988
6	Slovenian (sl) Mechelen		51.4598
7	Hebrew (he) מכלן		49.5506
8	German (de) Mechelen		46.4469
9	Spanish (es) Malinas		45.3723
10	Estonian (et) Mechelen		41.2709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mechelen		1 400 953
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		1 194 865
3	French (fr) Malines		610 856
4	German (de) Mechelen		524 816
5	Spanish (es) Malinas		319 497
6	Italian (it) Malines		227 022
7	Russian (ru) Мехелен		161 752
8	Polish (pl) Mechelen		138 226
9	Japanese (ja) メヘレン		59 033
10	Portuguese (pt) Mechelen		48 698

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) Mechelen		6 568
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		4 688
3	French (fr) Malines		2 357
4	German (de) Mechelen		2 260
5	Spanish (es) Malinas		1 578
6	Italian (it) Malines		1 023
7	Russian (ru) Мехелен		899
8	Polish (pl) Mechelen		436
9	Portuguese (pt) Mechelen		359
10	Japanese (ja) メヘレン		278

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		331
2	English (en) Mechelen		247
3	French (fr) Malines		227
4	German (de) Mechelen		182
5	Italian (it) Malines		101
6	Russian (ru) Мехелен		68
7	Hungarian (hu) Mechelen (Belgium)		60
8	Spanish (es) Malinas		57
9	Norwegian (no) Mechelen		51
10	Danish (da) Mechelen		41

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) Mechelen		2
2	French (fr) Malines		1
3	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		1
4	Arabic (ar) مشلين		0
5	Belarusian (be) Мехелен		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Мехелен		0
7	Catalan (ca) Malines		0
8	Czech (cs) Mechelen		0
9	Danish (da) Mechelen		0
10	German (de) Mechelen		0

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

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