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 93.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 350 references and 50 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.94 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8509^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 4520^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3147^th most popular in all topics.

The 3046^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Diesel engine” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Diesel engine”, its content was written by 1156 registered users of English Wikipedia (4520^th place) and edited by 4436 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3046^th place).

The article is cited 12519 times in English Wikipedia (1492^nd place) and cited 60881 times in all languages (2677^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #289 in September 2001
• Global: #383 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1251 in October 2014
• Global: #1544 in December 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, 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	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ diesel		100
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		94.2857
3	English (en) Diesel engine		93.9152
4	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		73.6542
5	Malay (ms) Enjin diesel		69.7701
6	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		64.662
7	Indonesian (id) Mesin diesel		61.8079
8	Dutch (nl) Dieselmotor		50.9113
9	Portuguese (pt) Motor a diesel		50.4263
10	Finnish (fi) Dieselmoottori		48.9438

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Diesel engine		15 179 962
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		6 377 253
3	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		4 735 960
4	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		4 648 204
5	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		3 333 000
6	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		2 757 926
7	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		2 061 418
8	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		1 926 003
9	Indonesian (id) Mesin diesel		1 169 516
10	Romanian (ro) Motor diesel		941 970

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		35 200
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		12 842
3	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		7 208
4	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		5 136
5	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		4 484
6	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		4 245
7	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		3 516
8	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		3 314
9	Czech (cs) Vznětový motor		1 400
10	Chinese (zh) 柴油引擎		1 394

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		1 156
2	German (de) Dieselmotor		684
3	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		302
4	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		204
5	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		196
6	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		171
7	Dutch (nl) Dieselmotor		160
8	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		157
9	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		109
10	Swedish (sv) Dieselmotor		94

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	Italian (it) Motore Diesel		3
2	English (en) Diesel engine		2
3	Japanese (ja) ディーゼルエンジン		2
4	Polish (pl) Silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym		2
5	Spanish (es) Motor diésel		1
6	Persian (fa) موتور دیزل		1
7	French (fr) Moteur Diesel		1
8	Russian (ru) Дизельный двигатель		1
9	Arabic (ar) محرك ديزل		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dizel mühərriki		0

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

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