Current collector

Current collector - device used to carry electrical power from overhead line or contact rail (electrical third or rarely even fourth rail) to a vehicle. Article “Current collector” in English Wikipedia has 35.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.85 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Current collector” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Current collector”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 768 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2362 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6612 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #34628 in January 2023
• Global: #8097 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #237419 in February 2023
• Global: #34472 in October 2015

There are 16 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	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		64.0881
2	German (de) Stromabnehmer		62.8628
3	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		39.8471
4	French (fr) Captage du courant		37.398
5	Polish (pl) Odbierak prądu		37.2532
6	English (en) Current collector		35.2009
7	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		33.7853
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Straumavtakar		21.7774
9	Swedish (sv) Strömavtagare		21.4045
10	Russian (ru) Токоприёмник		16.8646

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		1 153 836
2	German (de) Stromabnehmer		737 279
3	English (en) Current collector		537 894
4	Polish (pl) Odbierak prądu		307 225
5	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		156 069
6	Russian (ru) Токоприёмник		118 028
7	French (fr) Captage du courant		85 955
8	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		70 093
9	Swedish (sv) Strömavtagare		40 918
10	Finnish (fi) Virroitin		17 464

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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 "Current collector" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		4 233
2	English (en) Current collector		3 442
3	German (de) Stromabnehmer		2 519
4	Polish (pl) Odbierak prądu		716
5	Russian (ru) Токоприёмник		569
6	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		391
7	French (fr) Captage du courant		377
8	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		260
9	Swedish (sv) Strömavtagare		118
10	Ukrainian (uk) Струмоприймач		60

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Stromabnehmer		230
2	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		138
3	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		88
4	English (en) Current collector		68
5	French (fr) Captage du courant		62
6	Polish (pl) Odbierak prądu		49
7	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		25
8	Swedish (sv) Strömavtagare		24
9	Russian (ru) Токоприёмник		21
10	Finnish (fi) Virroitin		18

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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 "Current collector" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Stromabnehmer		1
2	English (en) Current collector		1
3	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		1
4	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		0
5	Danish (da) Strømaftager		0
6	Greek (el) Παντογράφος (τραίνα)		0
7	Finnish (fi) Virroitin		0
8	French (fr) Captage du courant		0
9	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Straumavtakar		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 "Current collector" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Current collector		2 362
2	Japanese (ja) 集電装置		1 906
3	German (de) Stromabnehmer		1 340
4	Polish (pl) Odbierak prądu		234
5	Czech (cs) Sběrač proudu		194
6	Dutch (nl) Stroomafnemer		185
7	Russian (ru) Токоприёмник		120
8	French (fr) Captage du courant		95
9	Ukrainian (uk) Струмоприймач		45
10	Swedish (sv) Strömavtagare		37

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Sběrač proudu
da	Danish Strømaftager
de	German Stromabnehmer
el	Greek Παντογράφος (τραίνα)
en	English Current collector
fi	Finnish Virroitin
fr	French Captage du courant
ja	Japanese 集電装置
nl	Dutch Stroomafnemer
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Straumavtakar
no	Norwegian Strømavtaker
pl	Polish Odbierak prądu
ru	Russian Токоприёмник
sv	Swedish Strömavtagare
th	Thai ตัวรับกระแสไฟ
uk	Ukrainian Струмоприймач

Best Rank

English: #237419 02.2023

Global: #34472 10.2015

Best Rank

English: #34628 01.2023

Global: #8097 04.2004

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