Commutator (electric)

Commutator - rotary electrical switch that periodically reverses the current direction between the rotor and the external circuit. Article “Commutator (electric)” in English Wikipedia has 59.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 18 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.

Since the creation of article “Commutator (electric)”, its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 196 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1072 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21881 in April 2003
• Global: #13687 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47367 in November 2013
• Global: #47000 in February 2015

There are 34 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) Commutator (electric)		59.7915
2	Finnish (fi) Virrankäännin		56.1997
3	Croatian (hr) Komutator (elektromotor)		31.286
4	Indonesian (id) Komutator		26.3727
5	Polish (pl) Komutator (elektrotechnika)		25.4107
6	Arabic (ar) مبدال		22.8907
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Komutator (elektrotehnika)		22.8729
8	Catalan (ca) Commutador (motor elèctric)		22.0299
9	Spanish (es) Conmutador (motor eléctrico)		18.7495
10	Bulgarian (bg) Колекторна комутация		18.4517

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Commutator (electric)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Commutator (electric)		3 050 834
2	German (de) Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)		862 454
3	Polish (pl) Komutator (elektrotechnika)		480 085
4	Russian (ru) Щёточно-коллекторный узел		286 480
5	Japanese (ja) 整流子		260 269
6	Spanish (es) Conmutador (motor eléctrico)		223 337
7	Czech (cs) Komutátor (elektrotechnika)		196 036
8	Dutch (nl) Commutator		149 367
9	Persian (fa) کموتاتور		75 879
10	Slovak (sk) Komutátor		48 643

More...

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 "Commutator (electric)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Commutator (electric)		6 841
2	German (de) Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)		1 197
3	Polish (pl) Komutator (elektrotechnika)		636
4	Russian (ru) Щёточно-коллекторный узел		579
5	Czech (cs) Komutátor (elektrotechnika)		406
6	Japanese (ja) 整流子		386
7	Korean (ko) 정류자		385
8	Chinese (zh) 整流子		309
9	Spanish (es) Conmutador (motor eléctrico)		203
10	Persian (fa) کموتاتور		179

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Commutator (electric)		109
2	German (de) Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)		108
3	Russian (ru) Щёточно-коллекторный узел		39
4	Polish (pl) Komutator (elektrotechnika)		36
5	Dutch (nl) Commutator		34
6	Danish (da) Kommutator (elektrisk)		27
7	Czech (cs) Komutátor (elektrotechnika)		23
8	Persian (fa) کموتاتور		18
9	Spanish (es) Conmutador (motor eléctrico)		12
10	Hebrew (he) קומוטטור (אלקטרוניקה)		12

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Commutator (electric)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)		2
2	Arabic (ar) مبدال		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Колекторна комутация		0
4	Catalan (ca) Commutador (motor elèctric)		0
5	Czech (cs) Komutátor (elektrotechnika)		0
6	Danish (da) Kommutator (elektrisk)		0
7	English (en) Commutator (electric)		0
8	Spanish (es) Conmutador (motor eléctrico)		0
9	Estonian (et) Kommutaator (elektrimasin)		0
10	Basque (eu) Kolektore (motor elektrikoa)		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Commutator (electric)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Commutator (electric)		196
2	German (de) Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)		124
3	Persian (fa) کموتاتور		87
4	Japanese (ja) 整流子		83
5	Russian (ru) Щёточно-коллекторный узел		71
6	Chinese (zh) 整流子		71
7	Arabic (ar) مبدال		59
8	Czech (cs) Komutátor (elektrotechnika)		40
9	Polish (pl) Komutator (elektrotechnika)		37
10	Dutch (nl) Commutator		35

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مبدال
bg	Bulgarian Колекторна комутация
ca	Catalan Commutador (motor elèctric)
cs	Czech Komutátor (elektrotechnika)
da	Danish Kommutator (elektrisk)
de	German Kommutator (Elektrotechnik)
en	English Commutator (electric)
es	Spanish Conmutador (motor eléctrico)
et	Estonian Kommutaator (elektrimasin)
eu	Basque Kolektore (motor elektrikoa)
fa	Persian کموتاتور
fi	Finnish Virrankäännin
he	Hebrew קומוטטור (אלקטרוניקה)
hi	Hindi दिक्-परिवर्तक
hr	Croatian Komutator (elektromotor)
hy	Armenian Կոմուտատոր
id	Indonesian Komutator
ja	Japanese 整流子
ko	Korean 정류자
nl	Dutch Commutator
no	Norwegian Kommutator
pl	Polish Komutator (elektrotechnika)
pt	Portuguese Comutador (eletrônica)
ro	Romanian Colector (electric)
ru	Russian Щёточно-коллекторный узел
sh	Serbo-Croatian Komutator (elektrotehnika)
sk	Slovak Komutátor
sl	Slovenian Komutator
sr	Serbian Комутатор (електротехника)
sv	Swedish Kommutator
uk	Ukrainian Комутатор (електротехніка)
ur	Urdu کمیوٹیٹر (برقی)
uz	Uzbek Kommutator
zh	Chinese 整流子

Best Rank

English: #47367 11.2013

Global: #47000 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #21881 04.2003

Global: #13687 06.2012

On 12 August 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wednesday, Georgina Rodríguez, ChatGPT, Weapons, Jenna Ortega, deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 2025–26 UEFA Champions League.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Weapons (2025 film), Danielle Spencer (American actress), Cristiano Ronaldo, Deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Wednesday (TV series), Superman (2025 film), Georgina Rodríguez, Coolie (2025 film), The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information