Eddy Merckx

Quality:

Eddy Merckx - Belgian cyclist (born 1945). This person is the 7057^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Eddy Merckx” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 21 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8629^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7057^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1856^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8501^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7436^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Eddy Merckx” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1856^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7436^th place).

Since the creation of article “Eddy Merckx”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2338 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Eddy Merckx is on the 7057^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12848 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #378 in August 2012
• Global: #229 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #194 in July 2021
• Global: #1373 in July 2019

There are 41 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) Eddy Merckx		100
2	Turkish (tr) Eddy Merckx		100
3	Bulgarian (bg) Еди Меркс		99.0476
4	Catalan (ca) Eddy Merckx		98.8235
5	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		97.1472
6	Norwegian (no) Eddy Merckx		95
7	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		91.629
8	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		87.3657
9	German (de) Eddy Merckx		71.7948
10	Simple English (simple) Eddy Merckx		54.4941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Eddy Merckx		4 076 750
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		2 275 293
3	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		1 580 947
4	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		1 508 215
5	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		1 173 451
6	German (de) Eddy Merckx		1 038 177
7	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		342 602
8	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		228 706
9	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		196 678
10	Portuguese (pt) Eddy Merckx		139 092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		29 197
2	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		27 265
3	English (en) Eddy Merckx		24 349
4	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		15 671
5	German (de) Eddy Merckx		14 632
6	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		7 366
7	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		1 621
8	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		1 215
9	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		970
10	Portuguese (pt) Eddy Merckx		879

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Eddy Merckx		413
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		345
3	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		276
4	Italian (it) Eddy Merckx		209
5	German (de) Eddy Merckx		198
6	Spanish (es) Eddy Merckx		84
7	Norwegian (no) Eddy Merckx		67
8	Japanese (ja) エディ・メルクス		62
9	Danish (da) Eddy Merckx		58
10	Hebrew (he) אדי מרקס		52

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) Eddy Merckx		7
2	French (fr) Eddy Merckx		4
3	Dutch (nl) Eddy Merckx		4
4	German (de) Eddy Merckx		3
5	Polish (pl) Eddy Merckx		2
6	Simple English (simple) Eddy Merckx		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) Еди Меркс		1
8	Hebrew (he) אדי מרקס		1
9	Arabic (ar) إيدي ميركس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Eddi Merks		0

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

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