Lionel Messi

Quality:

Lionel Messi - Argentine association football player (born 1987). This person is the 5^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 5^th most popular person in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “Lionel Messi” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 95.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 611 references and 36 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

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The 21^st most popular in Portuguese Wikipedia.

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The 54^th most editable in Portuguese Wikipedia.

The 5^th most popular in people in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 14^th most popular in all topics.

The 16^th most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

pt

The 31^st most popular in Portuguese Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1477^th most editable in Portuguese Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 49^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 166^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lionel Messi” was edited by 3 authors in Portuguese Wikipedia (1477^th place) and written by 142 authors in all languages (166^th place).

Since the creation of article “Lionel Messi”, its content was written by 550 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia (54^th place) and edited by 17778 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (16^th place).

Lionel Messi is on the 5^th place in local ranking of people in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1149 times in Portuguese Wikipedia (4211^th place) and cited 28640 times in all languages (5754^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #2 in August 2021
• Global: #6 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #4 in June 2023
• Global: #2 in December 2022

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		100
2	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		100
3	Arabic (ar) ليونيل ميسي		100
4	German (de) Lionel Messi		100
5	Vietnamese (vi) Lionel Messi		100
6	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		100
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ліонель Мессі		100
8	Greek (el) Λιονέλ Μέσι		100
9	Finnish (fi) Lionel Messi		100
10	Serbian (sr) Лионел Меси		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lionel Messi		172 084 679
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		61 585 904
3	French (fr) Lionel Messi		37 164 911
4	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		25 494 074
5	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		23 514 648
6	Portuguese (pt) Lionel Messi		16 498 729
7	German (de) Lionel Messi		15 317 241
8	Arabic (ar) ليونيل ميسي		15 144 927
9	Japanese (ja) リオネル・メッシ		12 396 349
10	Polish (pl) Lionel Messi		10 152 361

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) Lionel Messi		877 203
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		275 794
3	French (fr) Lionel Messi		189 905
4	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		128 394
5	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		116 416
6	Portuguese (pt) Lionel Messi		97 720
7	Japanese (ja) リオネル・メッシ		69 343
8	Arabic (ar) ليونيل ميسي		66 329
9	German (de) Lionel Messi		61 140
10	Persian (fa) لیونل مسی		47 237

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lionel Messi		2 953
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		1 324
3	French (fr) Lionel Messi		1 125
4	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		926
5	Turkish (tr) Lionel Messi		663
6	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		619
7	Persian (fa) لیونل مسی		589
8	German (de) Lionel Messi		572
9	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		563
10	Chinese (zh) 利昂内尔·梅西		559

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) Lionel Messi		18
2	French (fr) Lionel Messi		18
3	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		10
4	Finnish (fi) Lionel Messi		7
5	Hungarian (hu) Lionel Messi		7
6	Chinese (zh) 利昂内尔·梅西		7
7	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		6
8	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		6
9	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		5
10	Norwegian (no) Lionel Messi		5

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