Edge contraction

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Edge contraction

Quality:

Edge contraction - operation that removes an edge from a graph and combines its endpoints into a single vertex. Article “Edge contraction” in English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Edge contraction”, its content was written by 35 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 90 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 60 times in English Wikipedia and cited 165 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #57650 in May 2013
  • Global: #15084 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #342106 in December 2008
  • Global: #596941 in December 2023

There are 10 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
1Chinese (zh)
边收缩
40.2871
2English (en)
Edge contraction
35.6163
3Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
29.5587
4Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
27.3678
5Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
23.9411
6Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
22.2725
7French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
21.6364
8Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
14.9746
9Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
10.4385
10German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
4.0845
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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 "Edge contraction" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Edge contraction
234 818
2Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
22 268
3German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
16 331
4Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
9 052
5Chinese (zh)
边收缩
5 029
6French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
3 907
7Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
2 843
8Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
1 665
9Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
763
10Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
246
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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 "Edge contraction" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Edge contraction
1 118
2Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
128
3Chinese (zh)
边收缩
61
4German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
57
5Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
30
6French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
21
7Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
20
8Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
13
9Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
5
10Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
4
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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 "Edge contraction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Edge contraction
35
2German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
21
3Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
7
4French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
6
5Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
6
6Chinese (zh)
边收缩
6
7Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
3
8Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
2
10Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
1
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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 "Edge contraction" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
0
2English (en)
Edge contraction
0
3Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
0
4French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
0
5Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
0
6Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
0
7Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
0
8Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
0
9Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
0
10Chinese (zh)
边收缩
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 "Edge contraction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Edge contraction
60
2Russian (ru)
Стягивание ребра
25
3Hungarian (hu)
Élösszehúzás
19
4Ukrainian (uk)
Стягування ребра
15
5Chinese (zh)
边收缩
13
6French (fr)
Contraction d'arête
11
7German (de)
Kantenkontraktion
9
8Spanish (es)
Contracción de aristas
7
9Italian (it)
Contrazione degli spigoli
5
10Croatian (hr)
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Kantenkontraktion
enEnglish
Edge contraction
esSpanish
Contracción de aristas
frFrench
Contraction d'arête
hrCroatian
Kontrakcija brida (teorija grafova)
huHungarian
Élösszehúzás
itItalian
Contrazione degli spigoli
ruRussian
Стягивание ребра
ukUkrainian
Стягування ребра
zhChinese
边收缩

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#342106
12.2008
Global:
#596941
12.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#57650
05.2013
Global:
#15084
12.2002

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Edge contraction from Wikipedia articles about Minor graph, Graph, Deletion–contraction formula, Kargers algorithm and Hamiltonian path problem. Whereas reading the article about Edge contraction people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Homeomorphism, Minor graph, Quotient graph, Spanning tree and Chromatic polynomial.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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