Mainspring

Mainspring - spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon used as a power source in mechanical watches, some clocks, and other clockwork mechanisms. Article “Mainspring” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.05 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Mainspring”, its content was written by 77 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 192 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 85 times in English Wikipedia and cited 422 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #61479 in September 2004
• Global: #27783 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #133374 in January 2023
• Global: #186535 in January 2023

There are 12 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	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		55.4787
2	English (en) Mainspring		54.4699
3	Catalan (ca) Ressort motor		23.9185
4	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		16.5996
5	Persian (fa) شاه‌فنر (ساعت)		16.2095
6	Polish (pl) Sprężyna napędowa		14.9485
7	Arabic (ar) زنبرك (حركة ساعة)		10.7963
8	French (fr) Ressort moteur		9.1759
9	Chinese (zh) 發條		7.0481
10	Thai (th) ลาน (กลไก)		4.4847

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mainspring		695 425
2	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		381 681
3	French (fr) Ressort moteur		97 618
4	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		79 597
5	Chinese (zh) 發條		56 075
6	Polish (pl) Sprężyna napędowa		35 226
7	Finnish (fi) Vieteri		21 968
8	Thai (th) ลาน (กลไก)		15 585
9	Korean (ko) 태엽		6 993
10	Arabic (ar) زنبرك (حركة ساعة)		3 776

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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 "Mainspring" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mainspring		2 501
2	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		930
3	Chinese (zh) 發條		338
4	French (fr) Ressort moteur		220
5	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		155
6	Korean (ko) 태엽		83
7	Thai (th) ลาน (กลไก)		76
8	Arabic (ar) زنبرك (حركة ساعة)		61
9	Finnish (fi) Vieteri		44
10	Persian (fa) شاه‌فنر (ساعت)		34

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mainspring		77
2	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		32
3	French (fr) Ressort moteur		26
4	Finnish (fi) Vieteri		22
5	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		9
6	Polish (pl) Sprężyna napędowa		6
7	Catalan (ca) Ressort motor		5
8	Korean (ko) 태엽		4
9	Chinese (zh) 發條		4
10	Thai (th) ลาน (กลไก)		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 "Mainspring" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) زنبرك (حركة ساعة)		1
2	Catalan (ca) Ressort motor		0
3	English (en) Mainspring		0
4	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		0
5	Persian (fa) شاه‌فنر (ساعت)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Vieteri		0
7	French (fr) Ressort moteur		0
8	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		0
9	Korean (ko) 태엽		0
10	Polish (pl) Sprężyna napędowa		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 "Mainspring" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ぜんまいばね		157
2	English (en) Mainspring		85
3	Spanish (es) Resorte motor		45
4	Chinese (zh) 發條		41
5	French (fr) Ressort moteur		39
6	Catalan (ca) Ressort motor		21
7	Korean (ko) 태엽		14
8	Finnish (fi) Vieteri		6
9	Polish (pl) Sprężyna napędowa		6
10	Thai (th) ลาน (กลไก)		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زنبرك (حركة ساعة)
ca	Catalan Ressort motor
en	English Mainspring
es	Spanish Resorte motor
fa	Persian شاه‌فنر (ساعت)
fi	Finnish Vieteri
fr	French Ressort moteur
ja	Japanese ぜんまいばね
ko	Korean 태엽
pl	Polish Sprężyna napędowa
th	Thai ลาน (กลไก)
zh	Chinese 發條

Best Rank

English: #133374 01.2023

Global: #186535 01.2023

Best Rank

English: #61479 09.2004

Global: #27783 09.2003

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