Potentiometer

Quality:

Potentiometer - three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. Article “Potentiometer” in German Wikipedia has 41.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 24 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2026 the article “Potentiometer” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Potentiometer”, its content was written by 188 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1373 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 224 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2821 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2406 in February 2016
• Global: #4604 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #781 in May 2016
• Global: #8358 in October 2013

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, 2026 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Potensiometer		99.4726
2	English (en) Potentiometer		57.7774
3	Korean (ko) 분압기		50.3455
4	German (de) Potentiometer		41.1141
5	Portuguese (pt) Potenciômetro		37.4897
6	Chinese (zh) 電位器		35.528
7	Dutch (nl) Potentiometer		34.7785
8	French (fr) Potentiomètre		34.6364
9	Estonian (et) Potentsiomeeter		33.995
10	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		33.0516

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Potentiometer		7 864 180
2	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		3 148 569
3	German (de) Potentiometer		2 042 568
4	French (fr) Potentiomètre		1 051 267
5	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		690 653
6	Japanese (ja) ポテンショメータ		677 075
7	Italian (it) Potenziometro		638 301
8	Russian (ru) Потенциометр (резистор)		536 348
9	Portuguese (pt) Potenciômetro		531 721
10	Chinese (zh) 電位器		396 281

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) Potentiometer		7 776
2	German (de) Potentiometer		1 892
3	French (fr) Potentiomètre		1 090
4	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		916
5	Chinese (zh) 電位器		614
6	Italian (it) Potenziometro		502
7	Japanese (ja) ポテンショメータ		466
8	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		463
9	Russian (ru) Потенциометр (резистор)		445
10	Persian (fa) پتانسیومتر		394

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Potentiometer		390
2	German (de) Potentiometer		188
3	French (fr) Potentiomètre		116
4	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		72
5	Dutch (nl) Potentiometer		64
6	Italian (it) Potenziometro		60
7	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		35
8	Czech (cs) Potenciometr		30
9	Finnish (fi) Potentiometri		27
10	Hindi (hi) विभवमापी		26

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	Arabic (ar) مقياس الجهد الانزلاقي		1
2	German (de) Potentiometer		1
3	English (en) Potentiometer		1
4	Basque (eu) Potentziometro		1
5	Indonesian (id) Potensiometer		1
6	Italian (it) Potenziometro		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Potensiometr (rezistor)		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Потенциометър		0
9	Catalan (ca) Potenciòmetre		0
10	Czech (cs) Potenciometr		0

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

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