DR Class 243

DR Class 243 - class of German electric locomotives. Article “DR Class 243” in English Wikipedia has 41.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.2 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “DR Class 243” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “DR Class 243”, its content was written by 51 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 360 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 109 times in English Wikipedia and cited 753 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #94626 in August 2011
• Global: #7271 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #497940 in November 2014
• Global: #157330 in November 2016

There are 9 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	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		66.2511
2	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		57.8448
3	English (en) DR Class 243		41.8601
4	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		27.1686
5	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		22.7424
6	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		22.3124
7	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		14.5926
8	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		12.2956
9	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		6.8782

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

The most popular language versions of the article "DR Class 243" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		1 282 924
2	English (en) DR Class 243		192 713
3	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		19 912
4	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		17 691
5	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		15 696
6	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		14 427
7	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		13 306
8	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		8 704
9	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		1 076

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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 "DR Class 243" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		5 057
2	English (en) DR Class 243		1 074
3	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		123
4	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		86
5	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		81
6	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		81
7	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		78
8	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		47
9	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		16

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

Language versions of the article "DR Class 243" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		213
2	English (en) DR Class 243		51
3	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		31
4	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		19
5	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		13
6	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		11
7	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		11
8	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		7
9	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		4

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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 "DR Class 243" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		3
2	English (en) DR Class 243		3
3	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		1
4	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		0
5	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		0
6	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		0
7	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		0
8	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		0
9	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		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 "DR Class 243" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) DR-Baureihe 243		259
2	Dutch (nl) Baureihe 143		113
3	Chinese (zh) 德国国营铁路243型电力机车		110
4	English (en) DR Class 243		109
5	Hungarian (hu) DR 243 sorozat		64
6	Polish (pl) Baureihe 143		35
7	Swedish (sv) DR Baureihe 243		32
8	Japanese (ja) 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車		17
9	Italian (it) Locomotiva DR 243		14

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#	Language	Value
de	German DR-Baureihe 243
en	English DR Class 243
hu	Hungarian DR 243 sorozat
it	Italian Locomotiva DR 243
ja	Japanese 東ドイツ国鉄243形電気機関車
nl	Dutch Baureihe 143
pl	Polish Baureihe 143
sv	Swedish DR Baureihe 243
zh	Chinese 德国国营铁路243型电力机车

Best Rank

English: #497940 11.2014

Global: #157330 11.2016

Best Rank

English: #94626 08.2011

Global: #7271 09.2003

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