Malines

Mechelen - city in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. This city is the 1376^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 566^th most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Malines” in French Wikipedia has 65.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 58 references and 40 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.44 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Malines” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Malines”, its content was written by 227 registered users of French Wikipedia (8805^th place) and edited by 1791 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Mechelen is on the 566^th place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 1376^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2221 times in French Wikipedia (5653^rd place) and cited 14253 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1882 in March 2005
• Global: #1563 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #14824 in February 2017
• Global: #51639 in September 2020

There are 43 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	Hungarian (hu) Mechelen (Belgium)		77.8708
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		75.9159
3	English (en) Mechelen		66.2325
4	French (fr) Malines		65.4115
5	Greek (el) Μέχελεν		55.4988
6	Slovenian (sl) Mechelen		51.4598
7	Hebrew (he) מכלן		49.5506
8	German (de) Mechelen		46.4469
9	Spanish (es) Malinas		45.3723
10	Estonian (et) Mechelen		41.2709

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mechelen		1 400 953
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		1 194 865
3	French (fr) Malines		610 856
4	German (de) Mechelen		524 816
5	Spanish (es) Malinas		319 497
6	Italian (it) Malines		227 022
7	Russian (ru) Мехелен		161 752
8	Polish (pl) Mechelen		138 226
9	Japanese (ja) メヘレン		59 033
10	Portuguese (pt) Mechelen		48 698

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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 "Malines" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mechelen		6 568
2	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		4 688
3	French (fr) Malines		2 357
4	German (de) Mechelen		2 260
5	Spanish (es) Malinas		1 578
6	Italian (it) Malines		1 023
7	Russian (ru) Мехелен		899
8	Polish (pl) Mechelen		436
9	Portuguese (pt) Mechelen		359
10	Japanese (ja) メヘレン		278

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		331
2	English (en) Mechelen		247
3	French (fr) Malines		227
4	German (de) Mechelen		182
5	Italian (it) Malines		101
6	Russian (ru) Мехелен		68
7	Hungarian (hu) Mechelen (Belgium)		60
8	Spanish (es) Malinas		57
9	Norwegian (no) Mechelen		51
10	Danish (da) Mechelen		41

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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 "Malines" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mechelen		2
2	French (fr) Malines		1
3	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		1
4	Arabic (ar) مشلين		0
5	Belarusian (be) Мехелен		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Мехелен		0
7	Catalan (ca) Malines		0
8	Czech (cs) Mechelen		0
9	Danish (da) Mechelen		0
10	German (de) Mechelen		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 "Malines" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Mechelen (stad)		3 294
2	French (fr) Malines		2 221
3	English (en) Mechelen		1 598
4	German (de) Mechelen		1 062
5	Spanish (es) Malinas		815
6	Italian (it) Malines		692
7	Russian (ru) Мехелен		490
8	Polish (pl) Mechelen		337
9	Catalan (ca) Malines		331
10	Portuguese (pt) Mechelen		245

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مشلين
be	Belarusian Мехелен
bg	Bulgarian Мехелен
ca	Catalan Malines
cs	Czech Mechelen
da	Danish Mechelen
de	German Mechelen
el	Greek Μέχελεν
en	English Mechelen
eo	Esperanto Meĥleno
es	Spanish Malinas
et	Estonian Mechelen
eu	Basque Malinas
fa	Persian مشلان
fi	Finnish Mechelen
fr	French Malines
he	Hebrew מכלן
hu	Hungarian Mechelen (Belgium)
hy	Armenian Մեխելեն
id	Indonesian Mechelen, Belgia
it	Italian Malines
ja	Japanese メヘレン
ka	Georgian მეხელენი
ko	Korean 메헬렌
la	Latin Mechlinia
lt	Lithuanian Mechelenas
nl	Dutch Mechelen (stad)
no	Norwegian Mechelen
pl	Polish Mechelen
pt	Portuguese Mechelen
ro	Romanian Mechelen
ru	Russian Мехелен
sh	Serbo-Croatian Mechelen
simple	Simple English Mechelen
sk	Slovak Mechelen
sl	Slovenian Mechelen
sr	Serbian Мехелен
sv	Swedish Mechelen
th	Thai เมเคอเลิน
tr	Turkish Mechelen
uk	Ukrainian Мехелен
vi	Vietnamese Mechelen
zh	Chinese 梅赫伦

Best Rank

French: #14824 02.2017

Global: #51639 09.2020

Best Rank

French: #1882 03.2005

Global: #1563 10.2012

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