Windows Live Messenger

Quality:

Windows Live Messenger - deprecated instant messaging client. This software is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 17^th most popular software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Windows Live Messenger” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 30 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 8486^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 17^th most popular in software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3703^rd most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 3355^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Windows Live Messenger”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 4072 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3703^rd place).

Windows Live Messenger is on the 17^th place in local ranking of software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 1 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 3403 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #205 in December 2009
• Global: #519 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #236 in August 2016
• Global: #79 in June 2008

There are 40 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) MSN Messenger		86.857
2	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		70.2253
3	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		44.7311
4	Catalan (ca) Windows Live Messenger		44.6281
5	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		43.8838
6	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		42.2558
7	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		39.37
8	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		39.3016
9	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Live Messenger		36.202
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		34.5722

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) MSN Messenger		12 083 895
2	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		3 082 311
3	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		2 708 278
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		1 433 591
5	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		1 274 129
6	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		1 164 869
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		737 614
8	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		483 888
9	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		434 492
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		402 049

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) MSN Messenger		12 010
2	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		1 986
3	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		1 559
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		1 010
5	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		935
6	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		817
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		474
8	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		463
9	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		402
10	Russian (ru) Windows Live Messenger		386

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) MSN Messenger		1 311
2	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		378
3	German (de) Windows Live Messenger		262
4	Italian (it) Windows Live Messenger		260
5	Spanish (es) Windows Live Messenger		206
6	Dutch (nl) Windows Live Messenger		189
7	Chinese (zh) Windows Live Messenger		166
8	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		152
9	Turkish (tr) Windows Live Messenger		96
10	Finnish (fi) Windows Live Messenger		95

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) MSN Messenger		4
2	French (fr) Windows Live Messenger		1
3	Polish (pl) Windows Live Messenger		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Windows Live Messenger		1
5	Tamil (ta) வின்டோசு லைவ் மெசஞ்சர்		1
6	Arabic (ar) ويندوز لايف ماسنجر		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Windows Live Messenger		0
8	Catalan (ca) Windows Live Messenger		0
9	Czech (cs) Windows Live Messenger		0
10	Danish (da) Windows Live Messenger		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