Kick start

Kick start - method of starting a combustion engine (often on a motorcycle) using power from the foot applied to a starting pedal. Article “Kick start” in English Wikipedia has 11.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Kick start”, its content was written by 28 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 178 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 98 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1973 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24341 in May 2005
• Global: #57657 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #313352 in July 2011
• Global: #204159 in April 2012

There are 13 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	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		23.4467
2	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		23.0245
3	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		19.1055
4	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		16.1475
5	Portuguese (pt) Partida a pedal		14.8194
6	French (fr) Kick-starter		12.4795
7	Chinese (zh) 脚蹬启动		11.6566
8	English (en) Kick start		11.298
9	Norwegian (no) Kickstarter (motor)		11.1877
10	Swedish (sv) Kickstart		10.5925

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kick start" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kick start		345 363
2	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		300 397
3	German (de) Kickstarter		172 512
4	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		130 531
5	French (fr) Kick-starter		101 470
6	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		19 573
7	Dutch (nl) Kickstarter (pedaal)		9 812
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		9 108
9	Portuguese (pt) Partida a pedal		8 153
10	Swedish (sv) Kickstart		5 452

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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 "Kick start" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kick start		1 239
2	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		495
3	German (de) Kickstarter		296
4	French (fr) Kick-starter		173
5	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		137
6	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		130
7	Chinese (zh) 脚蹬启动		68
8	Portuguese (pt) Partida a pedal		40
9	Dutch (nl) Kickstarter (pedaal)		31
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kickstarter		46
2	English (en) Kick start		28
3	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		27
4	French (fr) Kick-starter		20
5	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		14
6	Dutch (nl) Kickstarter (pedaal)		14
7	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		10
8	Swedish (sv) Kickstart		7
9	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		3
10	Norwegian (no) Kickstarter (motor)		3

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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 "Kick start" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		0
2	German (de) Kickstarter		0
3	English (en) Kick start		0
4	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		0
5	French (fr) Kick-starter		0
6	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		0
7	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		0
8	Malay (ms) Penghidup tendang		0
9	Dutch (nl) Kickstarter (pedaal)		0
10	Norwegian (no) Kickstarter (motor)		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 "Kick start" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Impianto d'avviamento		935
2	Dutch (nl) Kickstarter (pedaal)		262
3	French (fr) Kick-starter		244
4	Japanese (ja) キックスターター		229
5	German (de) Kickstarter		168
6	English (en) Kick start		98
7	Spanish (es) Pedal de arranque		14
8	Malay (ms) Penghidup tendang		8
9	Swedish (sv) Kickstart		6
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кикстартер		5

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Кикстартер
de	German Kickstarter
en	English Kick start
es	Spanish Pedal de arranque
fr	French Kick-starter
it	Italian Impianto d'avviamento
ja	Japanese キックスターター
ms	Malay Penghidup tendang
nl	Dutch Kickstarter (pedaal)
no	Norwegian Kickstarter (motor)
pt	Portuguese Partida a pedal
sv	Swedish Kickstart
zh	Chinese 脚蹬启动

Best Rank

English: #313352 07.2011

Global: #204159 04.2012

Best Rank

English: #24341 05.2005

Global: #57657 08.2005

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