Electric current

Quality:

Electric current - flow of electric charge. Article “Electric current” in English Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 38 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7328^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1541^st most popular in all topics.

The 4151^st most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Electric current” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Electric current”, its content was written by 647 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3908 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4151^st place).

The article is cited 1864 times in English Wikipedia and cited 23662 times in all languages (7191^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #249 in September 2001
• Global: #200 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #667 in March 2011
• Global: #577 in March 2011

There are 54 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	Esperanto (eo) Elektra kurento		89.3927
2	Norwegian (no) Elektrisk strøm		84.7317
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Električna struja		72.0183
4	English (en) Electric current		69.2504
5	Chinese (zh) 电流		58.5717
6	Tamil (ta) மின்னோட்டம்		56.9283
7	Basque (eu) Korronte elektriko		55.6607
8	Turkish (tr) Elektrik akımı		54.3975
9	Indonesian (id) Arus listrik		54.056
10	Russian (ru) Электрический ток		47.5959

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric current		17 453 151
2	Spanish (es) Corriente eléctrica		15 314 137
3	Russian (ru) Электрический ток		4 918 219
4	German (de) Elektrischer Strom		4 728 101
5	Portuguese (pt) Corrente elétrica		3 642 517
6	French (fr) Courant électrique		2 457 995
7	Polish (pl) Prąd elektryczny		2 385 260
8	Italian (it) Corrente elettrica		2 294 676
9	Japanese (ja) 電流		1 762 433
10	Indonesian (id) Arus listrik		1 697 193

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) Electric current		22 182
2	Russian (ru) Электрический ток		5 101
3	German (de) Elektrischer Strom		4 519
4	Spanish (es) Corriente eléctrica		3 829
5	French (fr) Courant électrique		2 806
6	Persian (fa) جریان الکتریکی		2 236
7	Polish (pl) Prąd elektryczny		1 952
8	Japanese (ja) 電流		1 500
9	Chinese (zh) 电流		1 495
10	Italian (it) Corrente elettrica		1 232

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electric current		647
2	German (de) Elektrischer Strom		344
3	Spanish (es) Corriente eléctrica		251
4	French (fr) Courant électrique		203
5	Italian (it) Corrente elettrica		179
6	Russian (ru) Электрический ток		160
7	Portuguese (pt) Corrente elétrica		114
8	Dutch (nl) Elektrische stroom		106
9	Polish (pl) Prąd elektryczny		100
10	Turkish (tr) Elektrik akımı		89

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	English (en) Electric current		3
2	Spanish (es) Corriente eléctrica		2
3	Arabic (ar) تيار كهربائي		1
4	German (de) Elektrischer Strom		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Elektra kurento		1
6	Estonian (et) Elektrivool		1
7	Basque (eu) Korronte elektriko		1
8	Croatian (hr) Električna struja		1
9	Japanese (ja) 電流		1
10	Thai (th) กระแสไฟฟ้า		1

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

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