Mechanical television

Quality:

Mechanical television - a television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, to both scan and reproduce the video signal. Article “Mechanical television” in English Wikipedia has 74.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 49 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Mechanical television” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mechanical television”, its content was written by 146 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 356 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 238 times in English Wikipedia and cited 770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1691 in January 2016
• Global: #2027 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1041 in January 2016
• Global: #1343 in January 2016

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, 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	English (en) Mechanical television		74.5088
2	Russian (ru) Механическое телевидение		50.5979
3	German (de) Mechanisches Fernsehen		48.5029
4	Portuguese (pt) Televisão mecânica		46.7354
5	Hebrew (he) טלוויזיה מכנית		46.2878
6	Catalan (ca) Televisió electromecànica		29.7496
7	Arabic (ar) تلفاز ميكانيكي		22.8841
8	Ukrainian (uk) Механічне телебачення		20.7955
9	Japanese (ja) 機械式テレビジョン		18.148
10	French (fr) Télévision mécanique		14.6412

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mechanical television		1 340 827
2	Russian (ru) Механическое телевидение		341 399
3	German (de) Mechanisches Fernsehen		311 020
4	Spanish (es) Televisión electromecánica		105 489
5	Japanese (ja) 機械式テレビジョン		71 653
6	French (fr) Télévision mécanique		39 473
7	Ukrainian (uk) Механічне телебачення		5 163
8	Arabic (ar) تلفاز ميكانيكي		4 521
9	Chinese (zh) 機械掃描電視		3 726
10	Catalan (ca) Televisió electromecànica		2 636

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) Mechanical television		3 525
2	Russian (ru) Механическое телевидение		466
3	German (de) Mechanisches Fernsehen		221
4	Japanese (ja) 機械式テレビジョン		164
5	Spanish (es) Televisión electromecánica		113
6	French (fr) Télévision mécanique		108
7	Chinese (zh) 機械掃描電視		102
8	Portuguese (pt) Televisão mecânica		73
9	Ukrainian (uk) Механічне телебачення		13
10	Catalan (ca) Televisió electromecànica		12

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mechanical television		146
2	German (de) Mechanisches Fernsehen		90
3	Russian (ru) Механическое телевидение		45
4	Spanish (es) Televisión electromecánica		23
5	French (fr) Télévision mécanique		15
6	Catalan (ca) Televisió electromecànica		11
7	Japanese (ja) 機械式テレビジョン		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Механічне телебачення		5
9	Arabic (ar) تلفاز ميكانيكي		4
10	Hebrew (he) טלוויזיה מכנית		4

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) Mechanical television		1
2	Spanish (es) Televisión electromecánica		1
3	Arabic (ar) تلفاز ميكانيكي		0
4	Catalan (ca) Televisió electromecànica		0
5	German (de) Mechanisches Fernsehen		0
6	French (fr) Télévision mécanique		0
7	Hebrew (he) טלוויזיה מכנית		0
8	Japanese (ja) 機械式テレビジョン		0
9	Korean (ko) 기계식 텔레비전		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Televisão mecânica		0

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

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