GW170817

Quality:

GW170817 - gravitational wave signal detected by the LIGO observatory on 17 August 2017. Article “GW170817” in Swedish Wikipedia has 41.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “GW170817”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 332 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 1150 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #3023 in October 2017
• Global: #145 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #74358 in July 2018
• Global: #7457 in October 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	Ukrainian (uk) GW170817		98.8889
2	Chinese (zh) GW170817		96.6667
3	English (en) GW170817		94.6888
4	Korean (ko) GW170817		70.1551
5	Vietnamese (vi) GW170817		63.898
6	Spanish (es) GW170817		60.8205
7	Catalan (ca) GW170817		43.1739
8	German (de) GW170817		42.0169
9	Swedish (sv) GW170817		41.7969
10	Italian (it) GW170817		41.1438

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) GW170817		515 179
2	Russian (ru) GW170817		74 958
3	German (de) GW170817		32 396
4	French (fr) Fusion d'étoiles à neutrons du 17 août 2017		31 237
5	Chinese (zh) GW170817		27 412
6	Japanese (ja) GW170817		19 583
7	Italian (it) GW170817		12 500
8	Spanish (es) GW170817		10 885
9	Ukrainian (uk) GW170817		5 570
10	Portuguese (pt) GW170817		4 935

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) GW170817		4 548
2	French (fr) Fusion d'étoiles à neutrons du 17 août 2017		995
3	Russian (ru) GW170817		858
4	Chinese (zh) GW170817		384
5	Japanese (ja) GW170817		261
6	German (de) GW170817		194
7	Spanish (es) GW170817		99
8	Italian (it) GW170817		70
9	Korean (ko) GW170817		56
10	Ukrainian (uk) GW170817		42

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) GW170817		132
2	German (de) GW170817		31
3	Ukrainian (uk) GW170817		25
4	French (fr) Fusion d'étoiles à neutrons du 17 août 2017		23
5	Chinese (zh) GW170817		21
6	Italian (it) GW170817		16
7	Dutch (nl) GW170817		11
8	Russian (ru) GW170817		9
9	Spanish (es) GW170817		8
10	Japanese (ja) GW170817		7

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) GW170817		1
2	Korean (ko) GW170817		1
3	Chinese (zh) GW170817		1
4	Arabic (ar) GW170817		0
5	Belarusian (be) GW170817		0
6	Catalan (ca) GW170817		0
7	Danish (da) GW170817		0
8	German (de) GW170817		0
9	Spanish (es) GW170817		0
10	Persian (fa) جی‌دبلیو ۱۷۰۸۱۷		0

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

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