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Direct current

Quality:

Direct current - unidirectional flow of electric charge. Article “Direct current” in English Wikipedia has 43.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.27 points.

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 8003rd most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Direct current”, its content was written by 293 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2056 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4498 times in English Wikipedia (5457th place) and cited 26011 times in all languages (6318th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1871 in April 2002
  • Global: #1105 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #13458 in November 2012
  • Global: #2399 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, 2025 (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
48.3438
2English (en)
Direct current
43.1169
3Catalan (ca)
Corrent continu
41.2208
4Croatian (hr)
Istosmjerna struja
36.3295
5French (fr)
Courant continu
33.9765
6Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
31.1137
7Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
29.8574
8German (de)
Gleichstrom
29.5057
9Georgian (ka)
მუდმივი დენი
27.6245
10Chinese (zh)
直流電
26.34
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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
7 230 402
2Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
5 376 366
3German (de)
Gleichstrom
2 293 855
4Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
1 997 151
5French (fr)
Courant continu
1 843 178
6Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
1 454 759
7Italian (it)
Corrente continua
1 110 700
8Portuguese (pt)
Corrente contínua
1 035 796
9Japanese (ja)
直流
1 035 155
10Chinese (zh)
直流電
662 173
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct current" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direct current
11 364
2Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
5 106
3Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
3 718
4German (de)
Gleichstrom
2 231
5French (fr)
Courant continu
1 669
6Chinese (zh)
直流電
1 600
7Italian (it)
Corrente continua
1 290
8Korean (ko)
직류
1 105
9Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
1 060
10Japanese (ja)
直流
1 049
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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
293
2German (de)
Gleichstrom
183
3Spanish (es)
Corriente continua
129
4French (fr)
Courant continu
113
5Italian (it)
Corrente continua
88
6Dutch (nl)
Gelijkstroom
80
7Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
72
8Danish (da)
Jævnstrøm
61
9Chinese (zh)
直流電
61
10Norwegian (no)
Likestrøm
52
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Direct current" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Jednosmjerna struja
1
2Simple English (simple)
Direct current
1
3Chinese (zh)
直流電
1
4Arabic (ar)
تيار مستمر
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Sabit cərəyan
0
6Belarusian (be)
Пастаянны ток
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Постоянен ток
0
8Catalan (ca)
Corrent continu
0
9Czech (cs)
Stejnosměrný proud
0
10Danish (da)
Jævnstrøm
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
4 498
2Chinese (zh)
直流電
2 672
3Russian (ru)
Постоянный ток
2 045
4Italian (it)
Corrente continua
1 717
5German (de)
Gleichstrom
1 600
6Hungarian (hu)
Egyenáram
1 166
7Polish (pl)
Prąd stały
1 154
8French (fr)
Courant continu
1 026
9Japanese (ja)
直流
995
10Ukrainian (uk)
Постійний струм
936
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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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:
#13458
11.2012
Global:
#2399
04.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1871
04.2002
Global:
#1105
01.2003

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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 Inverter. 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 War of Currents.

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

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