Messier catalogue

Quality:

Messier object - astronomical objects catalogued by Charles Messier. This book is the 745^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 372^nd most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Messier catalogue” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 372^nd most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 745^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Messier catalogue”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Messier object is on the 372^nd place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 745^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 106 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19989 times in all languages (8303^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #122 in October 2010
• Global: #153 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8778 in April 2013
• Global: #23751 in November 2023

There are 48 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	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		89.0142
2	Indonesian (id) Objek Messier		86.0991
3	English (en) Messier object		85.4737
4	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		84.2142
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên thể Messier		71.972
6	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		61.6574
7	Ukrainian (uk) Каталог Мессьє		61.0634
8	Tamil (ta) மெசியே பொருள்		59.0515
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Messierkatalogen		57.6089
10	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		51.886

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier object		3 812 128
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		489 971
3	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		469 060
4	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		293 651
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		250 883
6	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		246 772
7	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		235 586
8	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		175 211
9	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		143 936
10	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		105 828

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) Messier object		13 790
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		3 348
3	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		1 420
4	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		994
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		746
6	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		721
7	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		631
8	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		561
9	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		368
10	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		280

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier object		289
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		150
3	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		93
4	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		80
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		66
6	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		58
7	Hungarian (hu) Messier-katalógus		52
8	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		50
9	Dutch (nl) Messierobject		49
10	Finnish (fi) Messierin luettelo		48

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) Messier object		5
2	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		2
3	Arabic (ar) فهرس مسييه		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		0
5	Belarusian (be) Каталог Месье		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Каталог на Месие		0
7	Catalan (ca) Catàleg Messier		0
8	Danish (da) Messiers katalog		0
9	German (de) Messier-Katalog		0
10	Greek (el) Αντικείμενο Μεσιέ		0

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

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