Difference engine

Quality:

Difference engine - Automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. This event is the 1281^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Difference engine” in English Wikipedia has 62.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 61 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.98 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1281^st most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Difference engine” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Difference engine”, its content was written by 333 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 924 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Difference engine is on the 1281^st place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 157 times in English Wikipedia and cited 617 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #311 in August 2001
• Global: #352 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9722 in October 2008
• Global: #16031 in October 2008

There are 28 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	German (de) Differenzmaschine		93.3674
2	English (en) Difference engine		62.858
3	Ukrainian (uk) Різницева машина		51.2452
4	Indonesian (id) Mesin beda		49.0177
5	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		43.6908
6	Hebrew (he) מנוע הפרשים		26.2161
7	Tamil (ta) வித்தியாசப் பொறி		25.8733
8	Romanian (ro) Mașină diferențială		24.8326
9	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		24.1265
10	Chinese (zh) 差分機		22.1667

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Difference engine		3 522 146
2	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		741 829
3	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		698 916
4	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		315 788
5	German (de) Differenzmaschine		180 410
6	Chinese (zh) 差分機		141 168
7	Portuguese (pt) Máquina diferencial		140 188
8	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		139 742
9	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		92 582
10	French (fr) Machine à différences		46 872

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) Difference engine		8 521
2	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		1 475
3	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		1 233
4	Chinese (zh) 差分機		659
5	German (de) Differenzmaschine		373
6	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		368
7	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		237
8	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		211
9	French (fr) Machine à différences		204
10	Portuguese (pt) Máquina diferencial		148

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Difference engine		333
2	German (de) Differenzmaschine		112
3	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		72
4	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		54
5	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		46
6	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		31
7	Hebrew (he) מנוע הפרשים		30
8	Hungarian (hu) Differenciálgép		28
9	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		25
10	French (fr) Machine à différences		24

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	Indonesian (id) Mesin beda		2
2	English (en) Difference engine		1
3	Korean (ko) 차분기관		1
4	Catalan (ca) Màquina diferencial		0
5	German (de) Differenzmaschine		0
6	Greek (el) Διαφορική μηχανή		0
7	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		0
8	Persian (fa) موتور تفاوت		0
9	Finnish (fi) Differenssikone		0
10	French (fr) Machine à différences		0

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

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