Battle of Messines

Battle of Messines - 1917 offensive conducted by the British Second Army. This event is the 2935^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Battle of Messines” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Battle of Messines”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 672 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Messines is on the 2935^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1842 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1761 in December 2011
• Global: #24000 in November 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18390 in October 2016
• Global: #10440 in June 2017

There are 22 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) Battle of Messines (1917)		92.6967
2	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		44.0457
3	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Messines		42.0067
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Messines (1917)		26.7088
5	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		26.3494
6	Swedish (sv) Slaget om Messines		24.4353
7	Simple English (simple) Battle of Messines		20.5109
8	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Messines		20.2032
9	Urdu (ur) میسینس کی جنگ (1917ء)		18.4367
10	Hebrew (he) קרב מסין (1917)		18.0872

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battle of Messines" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Messines (1917)		1 550 189
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		513 522
3	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		210 514
4	Russian (ru) Мессинская операция (1917)		148 100
5	Dutch (nl) Tweede Slag om Mesen		83 113
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Messines		58 150
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Messines (1917)		21 527
8	Swedish (sv) Slaget om Messines		17 786
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Messines (1917)		15 139
10	Finnish (fi) Messinesin taistelu		10 954

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Battle of Messines" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Messines (1917)		14 435
2	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		2 599
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		1 514
4	Russian (ru) Мессинская операция (1917)		591
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Messines (1917)		391
6	Dutch (nl) Tweede Slag om Mesen		312
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Messines		185
8	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Messines		144
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Messines (1917)		79
10	Arabic (ar) معركة ميسينز		55

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

Language versions of the article "Battle of Messines" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Messines (1917)		236
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		103
3	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		92
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Messines (1917)		43
5	Russian (ru) Мессинская операция (1917)		31
6	Dutch (nl) Tweede Slag om Mesen		29
7	Swedish (sv) Slaget om Messines		28
8	Norwegian (no) Slaget ved Messines		23
9	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Messines		12
10	Finnish (fi) Messinesin taistelu		12

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

Language versions of the article "Battle of Messines" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		3
2	English (en) Battle of Messines (1917)		2
3	Finnish (fi) Messinesin taistelu		1
4	Russian (ru) Мессинская операция (1917)		1
5	Arabic (ar) معركة ميسينز		0
6	Belarusian (be) Месінская бітва		0
7	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Messines		0
8	Danish (da) Slaget ved Messines		0
9	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		0
10	Greek (el) Μάχη της Μεσσίν		0

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

Language versions of the article "Battle of Messines" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Battle of Messines (1917)		712
2	French (fr) Bataille de Messines (1917)		254
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Messines		149
4	Indonesian (id) Pertempuran Messines		105
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Messines (1917)		92
6	Russian (ru) Мессинская операция (1917)		92
7	Dutch (nl) Tweede Slag om Mesen		90
8	Hebrew (he) קרב מסין (1917)		75
9	Ukrainian (uk) Месенська битва (1917)		60
10	Spanish (es) Batalla de Messines		51

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة ميسينز
be	Belarusian Месінская бітва
ca	Catalan Batalla de Messines
da	Danish Slaget ved Messines
de	German Schlacht bei Messines
el	Greek Μάχη της Μεσσίν
en	English Battle of Messines (1917)
es	Spanish Batalla de Messines
fi	Finnish Messinesin taistelu
fr	French Bataille de Messines (1917)
he	Hebrew קרב מסין (1917)
id	Indonesian Pertempuran Messines
it	Italian Battaglia di Messines (1917)
nl	Dutch Tweede Slag om Mesen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Slaget ved Messines
no	Norwegian Slaget ved Messines
pt	Portuguese Batalha de Messines (1917)
ru	Russian Мессинская операция (1917)
simple	Simple English Battle of Messines
sv	Swedish Slaget om Messines
uk	Ukrainian Месенська битва (1917)
ur	Urdu میسینس کی جنگ (1917ء)

Best Rank

Simple English: #18390 10.2016

Global: #10440 06.2017

Best Rank

Simple English: #1761 12.2011

Global: #24000 11.2013

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