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Direct current

Quality:

Direct current - unidirectional flow of electric charge. Article “Direct current” in English Wikipedia has 46 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 8341st most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Direct current”, its content was written by 299 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2039 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4478 times in English Wikipedia (5795th place) and cited 26827 times in all languages (6287th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1869 in April 2002
  • Global: #1113 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #13542 in November 2012
  • Global: #2431 in April 2014

There are 53 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Indonesian (id)
Arus searah
47.4434
2English (en)
Direct current
45.9828
3Catalan (ca)
Corrent continu
41.2837
4Croatian (hr)
Istosmjerna struja
36.2718
5French (fr)
Courant continu
33.9517
6Korean (ko)
직류
33.4751
7Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
31.3328
8Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
30.8036
9German (de)
Gleichstrom
29.3774
10Chinese (zh)
直流電
29.2496
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct current" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direct current
7 358 934
2Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
5 417 939
3German (de)
Gleichstrom
2 325 777
4Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
2 207 944
5French (fr)
Courant continu
1 863 430
6Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
1 471 570
7Italian (it)
Corrente continua
1 125 770
8Japanese (ja)
直流
1 047 632
9Portuguese (pt)
Corrente contínua
1 045 348
10Chinese (zh)
直流電
679 941
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct current" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direct current
8 116
2Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
2 351
3Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
1 893
4German (de)
Gleichstrom
1 777
5French (fr)
Courant continu
1 137
6Chinese (zh)
直流電
1 066
7Italian (it)
Corrente continua
907
8Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
809
9Japanese (ja)
直流
765
10Persian (fa)
جریان مستقیم
537
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Direct current" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Direct current
299
2German (de)
Gleichstrom
184
3Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
131
4French (fr)
Courant continu
115
5Italian (it)
Corrente continua
90
6Dutch (nl)
Gelijkstroom
81
7Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
73
8Danish (da)
Jævnstrøm
61
9Chinese (zh)
直流電
61
10Hungarian (hu)
Egyenáram
50
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Direct current" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Turkish (tr)
Doğru akım
5
2Arabic (ar)
تيار مستمر
1
3Azerbaijani (az)
Sabit cərəyan
1
4Catalan (ca)
Corrent continu
1
5Croatian (hr)
Istosmjerna struja
1
6Belarusian (be)
Пастаянны ток
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Постоянен ток
0
8Czech (cs)
Stejnosměrný proud
0
9Danish (da)
Jævnstrøm
0
10German (de)
Gleichstrom
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Direct current" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Direct current
4 478
2Chinese (zh)
直流電
2 750
3Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
2 062
4Italian (it)
Corrente continua
1 785
5German (de)
Gleichstrom
1 617
6Hungarian (hu)
Egyenáram
1 195
7Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
1 194
8French (fr)
Courant continu
1 109
9Japanese (ja)
直流
1 012
10Ukrainian (uk)
Постійний струм
982
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تيار مستمر
azAzerbaijani
Sabit cərəyan
beBelarusian
Пастаянны ток
bgBulgarian
Постоянен ток
caCatalan
Corrent continu
csCzech
Stejnosměrný proud
daDanish
Jævnstrøm
deGerman
Gleichstrom
elGreek
Συνεχές ρεύμα
enEnglish
Direct current
eoEsperanto
Kontinua kurento
esSpanish
Corriente continua
etEstonian
Alalisvool
euBasque
Korronte zuzen
faPersian
جریان مستقیم
fiFinnish
Tasavirta
frFrench
Courant continu
glGalician
Corrente continua
heHebrew
זרם ישר
hiHindi
दिष्ट धारा
hrCroatian
Istosmjerna struja
huHungarian
Egyenáram
hyArmenian
Հաստատուն հոսանք
idIndonesian
Arus searah
itItalian
Corrente continua
jaJapanese
直流
kaGeorgian
მუდმივი დენი
kkKazakh
Тұрақты ток
koKorean
직류
ltLithuanian
Nuolatinė elektros srovė
msMalay
Arus terus
nlDutch
Gelijkstroom
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Likestraum
noNorwegian
Likestrøm
plPolish
Prąd stały
ptPortuguese
Corrente contínua
roRomanian
Curent continuu
ruRussian
Постоянный ток
shSerbo-Croatian
Jednosmjerna struja
simpleSimple English
Direct current
skSlovak
Jednosmerný prúd
slSlovenian
Enosmerni električni tok
srSerbian
Једносмерна струја
svSwedish
Likström
taTamil
நேர் மின்னோட்டம்
thThai
ไฟฟ้ากระแสตรง
trTurkish
Doğru akım
ukUkrainian
Постійний струм
urUrdu
راست رو
uzUzbek
Oʻzgarmas tok
viVietnamese
Điện một chiều
zhChinese
直流電
zhminnanMin Nan
Ti̍t-liû

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13542
11.2012
Global:
#2431
04.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1869
04.2002
Global:
#1113
01.2003

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Direct current from Wikipedia articles about Alternating current, AC/DC, Electric current, Nikola Tesla and War of Currents. Whereas reading the article about Direct current people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Alternating current, Electric current, High-voltage direct current power line, Rectifier and Inverter.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 直流
ko: 직류
zhminnan: Ti̍t-liû

News from 1 July 2026

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