Wigan

Quality:

Wigan - town in Greater Manchester, England. This city is the 1753^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 934^th most popular city in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Wigan” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 19.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

The 934^th most popular in cities in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1753^rd most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Wigan”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1342 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wigan is on the 934^th place in local ranking of cities in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 1753^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 70 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 6378 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1855 in November 2004
• Global: #2804 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #3383 in January 2024
• Global: #24568 in May 2013

There are 39 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) Wigan		91.7097
2	Ukrainian (uk) Віган		76.3647
3	Russian (ru) Уиган		75.3533
4	Hebrew (he) ויגאן (אנגליה)		41.6771
5	Turkish (tr) Wigan		40.1093
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Wigan		33.6239
7	French (fr) Wigan		31.5433
8	Bulgarian (bg) Уигън		30.2908
9	German (de) Wigan		27.1509
10	Polish (pl) Wigan		26.7461

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wigan		2 889 375
2	German (de) Wigan		171 616
3	Spanish (es) Wigan		143 699
4	French (fr) Wigan		130 320
5	Italian (it) Wigan		127 232
6	Polish (pl) Wigan		108 777
7	Russian (ru) Уиган		76 822
8	Japanese (ja) ウィガン		59 856
9	Swedish (sv) Wigan		41 983
10	Chinese (zh) 威根		38 224

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) Wigan		14 803
2	Spanish (es) Wigan		580
3	German (de) Wigan		576
4	Italian (it) Wigan		546
5	French (fr) Wigan		389
6	Russian (ru) Уиган		296
7	Chinese (zh) 威根		259
8	Polish (pl) Wigan		198
9	Portuguese (pt) Wigan		170
10	Simple English (simple) Wigan		150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wigan		690
2	German (de) Wigan		85
3	French (fr) Wigan		74
4	Italian (it) Wigan		49
5	Russian (ru) Уиган		48
6	Dutch (nl) Wigan (Engeland)		46
7	Norwegian (no) Wigan		39
8	Spanish (es) Wigan		27
9	Hungarian (hu) Wigan		27
10	Polish (pl) Wigan		27

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) Wigan		5
2	Serbian (sr) Виган		1
3	Arabic (ar) ويغان		0
4	Belarusian (be) Уіган		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Уигън		0
6	Catalan (ca) Wigan		0
7	Czech (cs) Wigan		0
8	Danish (da) Wigan		0
9	German (de) Wigan		0
10	Greek (el) Γουίγκαν		0

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

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