Fan (machine)

Mechanical fan - machine with spinning blades used to create airflow. Article “Fan (machine)” in English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.96 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Fan (machine)” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fan (machine)”, its content was written by 491 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 786 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5810 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4462 in July 2019
• Global: #3643 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36681 in June 2011
• Global: #12773 in July 2010

There are 49 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	Chinese (zh) 风扇		64.6629
2	English (en) Fan (machine)		62.6339
3	Korean (ko) 선풍기		62.0181
4	German (de) Ventilator		56.9437
5	Vietnamese (vi) Quạt điện		53.0029
6	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		50.9742
7	Italian (it) Ventilatore		37.7209
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Hong-sìⁿ		36.4162
9	Spanish (es) Ventilador		35.3712
10	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		32.7941

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fan (machine)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		3 668 855
2	Spanish (es) Ventilador		2 095 047
3	German (de) Ventilator		1 094 871
4	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		925 252
5	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		907 321
6	Indonesian (id) Kipas angin		505 572
7	French (fr) Ventilateur		460 096
8	Polish (pl) Wentylator		423 367
9	Italian (it) Ventilatore		368 361
10	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		354 906

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fan (machine)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		11 183
2	German (de) Ventilator		4 308
3	French (fr) Ventilateur		3 357
4	Spanish (es) Ventilador		1 710
5	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		1 604
6	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		1 404
7	Italian (it) Ventilatore		952
8	Chinese (zh) 风扇		809
9	Korean (ko) 선풍기		745
10	Dutch (nl) Ventilator		605

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

Language versions of the article "Fan (machine)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		491
2	German (de) Ventilator		256
3	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		166
4	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		138
5	French (fr) Ventilateur		136
6	Spanish (es) Ventilador		133
7	Italian (it) Ventilatore		127
8	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		80
9	Dutch (nl) Ventilator		67
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quạt điện		62

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

Language versions of the article "Fan (machine)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		5
2	Romanian (ro) Ventilator		3
3	German (de) Ventilator		1
4	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		1
5	Arabic (ar) مروحة (آلة)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вентылятар		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Вентилатор		0
8	Catalan (ca) Ventilador		0
9	Czech (cs) Ventilátor		0
10	Greek (el) Ανεμιστήρας		0

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

Language versions of the article "Fan (machine)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		786
2	German (de) Ventilator		522
3	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		454
4	Chinese (zh) 风扇		365
5	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		319
6	French (fr) Ventilateur		275
7	Persian (fa) فن (ماشین)		256
8	Italian (it) Ventilatore		237
9	Korean (ko) 선풍기		218
10	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		184

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مروحة (آلة)
be	Belarusian Вентылятар
bg	Bulgarian Вентилатор
ca	Catalan Ventilador
cs	Czech Ventilátor
de	German Ventilator
el	Greek Ανεμιστήρας
en	English Fan (machine)
eo	Esperanto Ventolilo
es	Spanish Ventilador
et	Estonian Ventilaator
eu	Basque Haizagailu
fa	Persian فن (ماشین)
fi	Finnish Tuuletin
fr	French Ventilateur
he	Hebrew מאוורר
hi	Hindi पंखा
hr	Croatian Ventilator
hu	Hungarian Ventilátor
hy	Armenian Օդափոխիչ
id	Indonesian Kipas angin
it	Italian Ventilatore
ja	Japanese 扇風機
kk	Kazakh Желдеткіш
ko	Korean 선풍기
la	Latin Ventilatrum
lt	Lithuanian Ventiliatorius
ms	Malay Kipas
nl	Dutch Ventilator
no	Norwegian Kjøkkenventilator
pl	Polish Wentylator
pt	Portuguese Ventilador
ro	Romanian Ventilator
ru	Russian Вентилятор
sh	Serbo-Croatian Ventilator
simple	Simple English Fan (machine)
sk	Slovak Ventilátor
sl	Slovenian Ventilator
sr	Serbian Вентилатор
sv	Swedish Fläkt
ta	Tamil மின் விசிறி
th	Thai พัดลม
tr	Turkish Vantilatör
uk	Ukrainian Вентилятор
ur	Urdu پنکھا (آلہ)
uz	Uzbek Ventilyator
vi	Vietnamese Quạt điện
zh	Chinese 风扇
zhminnan	Min Nan Hong-sìⁿ

Best Rank

English: #36681 06.2011

Global: #12773 07.2010

Best Rank

English: #4462 07.2019

Global: #3643 08.2011

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