Glow plug

Glowplug - heating device used to start diesel engines. Article “Glow plug” in English Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.47 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Glow plug”, its content was written by 95 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 395 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 190 times in English Wikipedia and cited 917 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #29854 in October 2013
• Global: #21832 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #98353 in January 2024
• Global: #75335 in February 2012

There are 22 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Glühkerze		26.8599
2	English (en) Glow plug		22.2495
3	Thai (th) หัวเผา		19.3023
4	Czech (cs) Žhavicí svíčka		17.9503
5	Persian (fa) شمع گرمکن		15.5994
6	Ukrainian (uk) Свічка розжарення		15.178
7	Spanish (es) Bujía de precalentamiento		15.1291
8	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		14.2841
9	Arabic (ar) شمعة توهج		14.0132
10	Italian (it) Candeletta		13.7941

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Glow plug" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glow plug		594 106
2	German (de) Glühkerze		486 986
3	Russian (ru) Свеча накаливания		379 010
4	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		374 617
5	Polish (pl) Świeca żarowa		265 040
6	Japanese (ja) グロープラグ		222 168
7	Spanish (es) Bujía de precalentamiento		148 202
8	Italian (it) Candeletta		116 762
9	Swedish (sv) Glödstift		58 059
10	Chinese (zh) 預熱塞		55 631

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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 "Glow plug" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Glow plug		2 357
2	Russian (ru) Свеча накаливания		1 085
3	German (de) Glühkerze		609
4	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		502
5	Japanese (ja) グロープラグ		452
6	Polish (pl) Świeca żarowa		307
7	Spanish (es) Bujía de precalentamiento		297
8	Chinese (zh) 預熱塞		260
9	Italian (it) Candeletta		118
10	Arabic (ar) شمعة توهج		105

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Glow plug		95
2	German (de) Glühkerze		67
3	Russian (ru) Свеча накаливания		29
4	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		24
5	Japanese (ja) グロープラグ		20
6	Polish (pl) Świeca żarowa		20
7	Danish (da) Gløderør		19
8	Italian (it) Candeletta		18
9	Norwegian (no) Glødeplugg		17
10	Swedish (sv) Glödstift		14

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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 "Glow plug" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شمعة توهج		0
2	Czech (cs) Žhavicí svíčka		0
3	Danish (da) Gløderør		0
4	German (de) Glühkerze		0
5	English (en) Glow plug		0
6	Spanish (es) Bujía de precalentamiento		0
7	Estonian (et) Eelsüüteküünal		0
8	Persian (fa) شمع گرمکن		0
9	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		0
10	Italian (it) Candeletta		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 "Glow plug" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Bougie de préchauffage		219
2	English (en) Glow plug		190
3	Arabic (ar) شمعة توهج		83
4	Persian (fa) شمع گرمکن		79
5	Korean (ko) 예열 플러그		75
6	Chinese (zh) 預熱塞		63
7	Ukrainian (uk) Свічка розжарення		39
8	German (de) Glühkerze		36
9	Japanese (ja) グロープラグ		31
10	Swedish (sv) Glödstift		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شمعة توهج
cs	Czech Žhavicí svíčka
da	Danish Gløderør
de	German Glühkerze
en	English Glow plug
es	Spanish Bujía de precalentamiento
et	Estonian Eelsüüteküünal
fa	Persian شمع گرمکن
fr	French Bougie de préchauffage
it	Italian Candeletta
ja	Japanese グロープラグ
ko	Korean 예열 플러그
nl	Dutch Gloeibougie
no	Norwegian Glødeplugg
pl	Polish Świeca żarowa
pt	Portuguese Vela de incandescência
ru	Russian Свеча накаливания
sl	Slovenian Žarilna svečka
sv	Swedish Glödstift
th	Thai หัวเผา
uk	Ukrainian Свічка розжарення
zh	Chinese 預熱塞

Best Rank

English: #98353 01.2024

Global: #75335 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #29854 10.2013

Global: #21832 06.2004

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