Alternating current

Quality:

Alternating current - electric current which periodically reverses direction. Article “Alternating current” in English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 50 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.8 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3183^rd most popular in all topics.

The 7434^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Alternating current”, its content was written by 576 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2971 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7434^th place).

The article is cited 2819 times in English Wikipedia and cited 20998 times in all languages (8200^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #976 in August 2003
• Global: #121 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5228 in November 2013
• Global: #1830 in May 2009

There are 52 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	Estonian (et) Vahelduvvool		73.1545
2	Norwegian (no) Vekselstrøm		73.1398
3	English (en) Alternating current		72.2289
4	Turkish (tr) Alternatif akım		66.1683
5	German (de) Wechselstrom		57.6766
6	Korean (ko) 교류		57.6057
7	Croatian (hr) Izmjenična električna struja		54.5641
8	Indonesian (id) Arus bolak-balik		52.7777
9	Chinese (zh) 交流電		47.9832
10	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		45.686

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternating current		14 091 543
2	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		8 900 501
3	German (de) Wechselstrom		4 234 588
4	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		3 731 148
5	Japanese (ja) 交流		2 016 970
6	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		1 983 647
7	French (fr) Courant alternatif		1 963 727
8	Portuguese (pt) Corrente alternada		1 757 421
9	Polish (pl) Prąd przemienny		1 438 072
10	Chinese (zh) 交流電		1 158 985

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) Alternating current		16 830
2	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		3 654
3	German (de) Wechselstrom		3 451
4	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		3 335
5	French (fr) Courant alternatif		2 306
6	Japanese (ja) 交流		1 841
7	Chinese (zh) 交流電		1 626
8	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		1 440
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrente alternada		1 054
10	Polish (pl) Prąd przemienny		992

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternating current		576
2	German (de) Wechselstrom		345
3	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		176
4	French (fr) Courant alternatif		150
5	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		134
6	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		107
7	Dutch (nl) Wisselstroom		91
8	Chinese (zh) 交流電		77
9	Czech (cs) Střídavý proud		76
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrente alternada		72

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	Turkish (tr) Alternatif akım		4
2	Arabic (ar) تيار متناوب		3
3	Japanese (ja) 交流		2
4	Catalan (ca) Corrent altern		1
5	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		1
6	Basque (eu) Korronte alterno		1
7	Croatian (hr) Izmjenična električna struja		1
8	Korean (ko) 교류		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dəyişən cərəyan		0
10	Belarusian (be) Пераменны ток		0

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

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