Diesel engine

Quality:

Diesel engine - internal combustion engine with quality rotational frequency governing, internal mixture formation, lean air-fuel-ratio, diffusion flame and compression ignition. Article “Diesel engine” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 351 references and 50 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.93 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8945^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 4617^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3216^th most popular in all topics.

The 3102^nd most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Diesel engine”, its content was written by 1175 registered users of English Wikipedia (4617^th place) and edited by 4463 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3102^nd place).

The article is cited 12835 times in English Wikipedia (1476^th place) and cited 63879 times in all languages (2651^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #292 in September 2001
• Global: #387 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1257 in October 2014
• Global: #1539 in October 2014

There are 49 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	Thai (th) เครื่องยนต์ดีเซล		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ diesel		95
3	English (en) Diesel engine		93.7585
4	German (de) Dieselmotor		93.3333
5	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		73.4786
6	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		71.1489
7	Malay (ms) Enjin diesel		70.0627
8	Indonesian (id) Mesin diesel		61.5321
9	Dutch (nl) Dieselmotor		50.7178
10	Portuguese (pt) Motor a diesel		50.3268

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Diesel engine		15 500 364
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		6 550 336
3	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		4 838 798
4	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		4 688 017
5	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		3 764 076
6	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		2 966 512
7	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		2 102 964
8	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		1 961 291
9	Indonesian (id) Mesin diesel		1 245 858
10	Romanian (ro) Motor diesel		956 171

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) Diesel engine		20 496
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		9 626
3	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		7 640
4	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		6 490
5	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		3 238
6	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		2 331
7	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		1 939
8	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		1 754
9	Persian (fa) موتور دیزل		1 401
10	Chinese (zh) 柴油引擎		932

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Diesel engine		1 175
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		693
3	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		309
4	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		205
5	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		199
6	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		171
7	Dutch (nl) Dieselmotor		160
8	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		159
9	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		111
10	Swedish (sv) Dieselmotor		97

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	Simple English (simple) Diesel engine		2
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		1
3	Galician (gl) Motor diésel		1
4	Romanian (ro) Motor diesel		1
5	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		1
6	Swedish (sv) Dieselmotor		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ diesel		1
8	Arabic (ar) محرك ديزل		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dizel mühərriki		0
10	Belarusian (be) Дызельны рухавік		0

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

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