Difference engine

Quality:

Difference engine - Automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. This event is the 1221^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article "Difference engine" in English Wikipedia has 63.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 61 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 1221^st most popular in events.

Since the creation of article "Difference engine", its content was written by 326 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 912 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Difference engine is on the 1221^st place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 176 times in English Wikipedia and cited 641 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #251 in August 2001
• Global: #291 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9646 in October 2008
• Global: #16045 in October 2008

There are 27 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) Differenzmaschine		93.3895
2	English (en) Difference engine		63.0912
3	Ukrainian (uk) Різницева машина		52.5967
4	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		43.6949
5	Hebrew (he) מנוע הפרשים		26.5486
6	Tamil (ta) வித்தியாசப் பொறி		25.9574
7	Romanian (ro) Mașină diferențială		24.8739
8	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		23.0977
9	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		21.2001
10	French (fr) Machine à différences		20.6283

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Difference engine		3 406 098
2	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		733 725
3	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		643 957
4	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		302 172
5	German (de) Differenzmaschine		174 407
6	Portuguese (pt) Máquina diferencial		137 307
7	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		134 719
8	Chinese (zh) 差分機		124 597
9	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		89 672
10	French (fr) Machine à différences		43 846

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		11 382
2	French (fr) Machine à différences		7 029
3	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		2 144
4	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		1 502
5	Chinese (zh) 差分機		727
6	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		551
7	Ukrainian (uk) Різницева машина		534
8	German (de) Differenzmaschine		388
9	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		297
10	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		288

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		326
2	German (de) Differenzmaschine		109
3	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		71
4	Spanish (es) Máquina diferencial		54
5	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		46
6	Hebrew (he) מנוע הפרשים		30
7	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		30
8	Hungarian (hu) Differenciálgép		28
9	French (fr) Machine à différences		24
10	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		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	French (fr) Machine à différences		3
2	Japanese (ja) 階差機関		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Різницева машина		2
4	Italian (it) Macchina differenziale		1
5	Polish (pl) Maszyna różnicowa		1
6	Russian (ru) Разностная машина Чарльза Бэббиджа		1
7	Catalan (ca) Màquina diferencial		0
8	German (de) Differenzmaschine		0
9	Greek (el) Διαφορική μηχανή		0
10	English (en) Difference engine		0

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

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