Outboard motor

Quality:

Outboard motor - self-contained propulsion system for boats. Article “Outboard motor” in English Wikipedia has 67.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 44 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.56 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Outboard motor”, its content was written by 221 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 781 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2091 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6503 in June 2002
• Global: #7613 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5067 in April 2014
• Global: #13119 in April 2014

There are 25 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) Outboard motor		67.6544
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Påhengsmotor		66.2076
3	German (de) Außenbordmotor		50.8709
4	Finnish (fi) Perämoottori		33.4522
5	Italian (it) Motore fuoribordo		32.5659
6	Ukrainian (uk) Човновий мотор		29.856
7	Catalan (ca) Forabord		29.1734
8	Arabic (ar) محرك خارجي		28.7956
9	Japanese (ja) 船外機		27.4581
10	Russian (ru) Лодочный мотор		26.4187

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Outboard motor		2 462 698
2	Japanese (ja) 船外機		438 328
3	German (de) Außenbordmotor		372 534
4	French (fr) Hors-bord		251 347
5	Russian (ru) Лодочный мотор		250 634
6	Spanish (es) Motor fueraborda		204 629
7	Italian (it) Motore fuoribordo		141 975
8	Finnish (fi) Perämoottori		133 384
9	Swedish (sv) Utombordsmotor		129 439
10	Dutch (nl) Buitenboordmotor		80 965

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) Outboard motor		3 372
2	French (fr) Hors-bord		641
3	Japanese (ja) 船外機		595
4	German (de) Außenbordmotor		571
5	Russian (ru) Лодочный мотор		387
6	Spanish (es) Motor fueraborda		281
7	Italian (it) Motore fuoribordo		256
8	Finnish (fi) Perämoottori		239
9	Swedish (sv) Utombordsmotor		166
10	Norwegian (no) Utenbordsmotor		97

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Outboard motor		221
2	German (de) Außenbordmotor		92
3	French (fr) Hors-bord		57
4	Dutch (nl) Buitenboordmotor		51
5	Russian (ru) Лодочный мотор		48
6	Japanese (ja) 船外機		43
7	Swedish (sv) Utombordsmotor		40
8	Finnish (fi) Perämoottori		33
9	Italian (it) Motore fuoribordo		27
10	Norwegian (no) Utenbordsmotor		23

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	Arabic (ar) محرك خارجي		0
2	Catalan (ca) Forabord		0
3	German (de) Außenbordmotor		0
4	English (en) Outboard motor		0
5	Spanish (es) Motor fueraborda		0
6	Estonian (et) Päramootor		0
7	Basque (eu) Karelez kanpoko motor		0
8	Persian (fa) موتور قایق‌رانی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Perämoottori		0
10	French (fr) Hors-bord		0

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

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