Messier 51

Quality:

Whirlpool Galaxy - galaxy. Article “Messier 51” in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 8.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 1369 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 8083 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #1530 in October 2012
• Global: #2203 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #9191 in October 2009
• Global: #34897 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, 2026 (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		83.9146
2	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		71.795
3	Indonesian (id) Galaksi Pusaran		65.1211
4	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		55.9857
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Malstraumgalaksen		48.6743
6	Czech (cs) Vírová galaxie		45.2809
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		45.1607
8	Hebrew (he) גלקסיית המערבולת		43.6156
9	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		42.532
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên hà Xoáy Nước		42.4975

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Whirlpool Galaxy		2 256 546
2	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		325 496
3	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		291 509
4	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		247 782
5	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		240 700
6	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		176 463
7	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		145 951
8	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		134 597
9	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia do Rodamoinho		68 935
10	Chinese (zh) 渦狀星系		57 169

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		8 459
2	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		1 363
3	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		1 139
4	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		845
5	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		807
6	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		792
7	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		759
8	Polish (pl) Galaktyka Wir		433
9	Chinese (zh) 渦狀星系		369
10	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia do Rodamoinho		274

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		309
2	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		133
3	French (fr) M51 (galaxie)		117
4	Russian (ru) Водоворот (галактика)		78
5	Italian (it) M51 (astronomia)		75
6	Dutch (nl) Draaikolkstelsel		65
7	Japanese (ja) 子持ち銀河		40
8	Spanish (es) Galaxia Remolino		38
9	Croatian (hr) Messier 51		38
10	Hungarian (hu) Messier 51		37

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		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Burulğan qalaktikası		1
3	Czech (cs) Vírová galaxie		1
4	German (de) Whirlpool-Galaxie		1
5	Basque (eu) Zirimolaren galaxia		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Galáxia do Rodamoinho		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên hà Xoáy Nước		1
8	Arabic (ar) مجرة الدوامة		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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