PID controller

Quality:

PID controler - control loop mechanism used in control engineering based on three terms (P, I and D). Article “PID controller” in English Wikipedia has 66.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 53 references and 58 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.37 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7659^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7559^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2026 the article “PID controller” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “PID controller”, its content was written by 515 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1311 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 192 times in English Wikipedia and cited 811 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2043 in November 2002
• Global: #3593 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2371 in April 2015
• Global: #2334 in April 2016

There are 34 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	Chinese (zh) PID控制器		69.8342
2	English (en) PID controller		66.2873
3	Hebrew (he) בקר PID		62.072
4	Estonian (et) PID-regulaator		47.7694
5	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ điều khiển PID		44.8115
6	Polish (pl) Regulator PID		39.4503
7	Japanese (ja) PID制御		36.664
8	Catalan (ca) Proporcional integral derivatiu		34.7974
9	Indonesian (id) PID		32.9381
10	Swedish (sv) PID-regulator		32.741

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PID controller		16 991 127
2	Spanish (es) Controlador PID		2 653 368
3	Japanese (ja) PID制御		2 590 967
4	Russian (ru) ПИД-регулятор		1 857 961
5	French (fr) Régulateur PID		1 772 834
6	Chinese (zh) PID控制器		1 637 379
7	Polish (pl) Regulator PID		1 127 991
8	Italian (it) Controllo PID		725 016
9	Dutch (nl) PID-regelaar		589 054
10	Korean (ko) PID 제어기		559 329

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) PID controller		25 430
2	Russian (ru) ПИД-регулятор		3 617
3	French (fr) Régulateur PID		3 429
4	Chinese (zh) PID控制器		2 981
5	Spanish (es) Controlador PID		2 307
6	Polish (pl) Regulator PID		2 030
7	Japanese (ja) PID制御		1 977
8	Italian (it) Controllo PID		1 173
9	Korean (ko) PID 제어기		1 153
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ điều khiển PID		1 019

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PID controller		515
2	Spanish (es) Controlador PID		87
3	Italian (it) Controllo PID		77
4	French (fr) Régulateur PID		73
5	Russian (ru) ПИД-регулятор		61
6	Polish (pl) Regulator PID		49
7	Dutch (nl) PID-regelaar		47
8	Catalan (ca) Proporcional integral derivatiu		37
9	Chinese (zh) PID控制器		33
10	Swedish (sv) PID-regulator		28

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) PID controller		2
2	Arabic (ar) متحكم تناسبي تكاملي تفاضلي		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Пропорційно-інтегрально-диференціальний закон регулювання		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) PİD tənzimləyici		0
5	Belarusian (be) ПІД-рэгулятар		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) PID контролер		0
7	Catalan (ca) Proporcional integral derivatiu		0
8	Czech (cs) PID regulátor		0
9	Spanish (es) Controlador PID		0
10	Estonian (et) PID-regulaator		0

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

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