4-8-4

4-8-4 - locomotive wheel arrangement. Article “4-8-4” in English Wikipedia has 80.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “4-8-4” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “4-8-4”, its content was written by 195 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 252 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 470 times in English Wikipedia and cited 723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12421 in November 2023
• Global: #64157 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #164534 in December 2008
• Global: #266802 in December 2008

There are 7 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) 4-8-4		80.5972
2	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		20.1809
3	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		19.0416
4	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		13.9177
5	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		13.4265
6	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		5.3705
7	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		3.1175

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

The most popular language versions of the article "4-8-4" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 4-8-4		786 273
2	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		38 048
3	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		24 170
4	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		18 267
5	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		14 863
6	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		3 021
7	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		1 516

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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 "4-8-4" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 4-8-4		4 450
2	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		175
3	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		127
4	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		71
5	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		66
6	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		27
7	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		7

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

Language versions of the article "4-8-4" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 4-8-4		195
2	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		23
3	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		16
4	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		10
5	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		3
7	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		2

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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 "4-8-4" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 4-8-4		2
2	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		0
3	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		0
4	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		0
6	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		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 "4-8-4" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) 4-8-4		470
2	French (fr) Northern (locomotive)		72
3	Russian (ru) 2-4-2		60
4	German (de) Northern (Lokomotive)		36
5	Portuguese (pt) Locomotiva 4-8-4		32
6	Ukrainian (uk) 2-4-2		29
7	Japanese (ja) 車輪配置 4-8-4		24

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#	Language	Value
de	German Northern (Lokomotive)
en	English 4-8-4
fr	French Northern (locomotive)
ja	Japanese 車輪配置 4-8-4
pt	Portuguese Locomotiva 4-8-4
ru	Russian 2-4-2
uk	Ukrainian 2-4-2

Best Rank

English: #164534 12.2008

Global: #266802 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #12421 11.2023

Global: #64157 11.2023

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