Messier 51

Quality:

Whirlpool Galaxy - galaxy. Article “Messier 51” in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 8.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Messier 51”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and edited by 1363 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 8171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #1532 in October 2012
• Global: #2199 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #9171 in October 2009
• Global: #34740 in October 2008

There are 46 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) Whirlpool Galaxy		83.6803
2	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		72.2386
3	Indonesian (id) Galaksi Pusaran		67.183
4	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		57.5991
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Malstraumgalaksen		48.6743
6	Czech (cs) Vírová galaxie		45.7843
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		45.1964
8	Hebrew (he) גלקסיית המערבולת		44.3411
9	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		42.4649
10	Catalan (ca) Galàxia del Remolí		41.3752

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whirlpool Galaxy		2 155 743
2	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		307 966
3	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		276 906
4	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		231 878
5	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		226 869
6	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		167 455
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		140 949
8	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		126 046
9	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia do Rodamoinho		66 060
10	Dutch (nl) Draaikolkstelsel		54 536

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) Whirlpool Galaxy		10 224
2	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		1 452
3	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		1 295
4	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		929
5	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		876
6	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		830
7	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		807
8	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia do Rodamoinho		353
9	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		341
10	Chinese (zh) 渦狀星系		335

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Whirlpool Galaxy		299
2	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		133
3	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		113
4	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		76
5	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		74
6	Dutch (nl) Draaikolkstelsel		65
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 51		38
8	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		38
9	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		37
10	Hungarian (hu) Messier 51		36

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) Whirlpool Galaxy		3
2	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		2
3	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		1
4	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		1
5	Korean (ko) 소용돌이 은하		1
6	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		1
7	Arabic (ar) مجرة الدوامة		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Messier 51		0
9	Belarusian (be) M51 (аб’ект Месье)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) M51		0

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

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