Residual-current device

Quality:

Residual-current device - electrical safety device used in household wiring. Article "Residual-current device" in English Wikipedia has 63.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 40 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Residual-current device" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Residual-current device", its content was written by 383 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1778 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 384 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1426 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4935 in September 2004
• Global: #4602 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17093 in January 2012
• Global: #6949 in February 2015

There are 30 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	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		73.4858
2	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		68.0661
3	English (en) Residual-current device		63.3574
4	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		35.5977
5	Estonian (et) Rikkevoolukaitselüliti		34.4235
6	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		32.6695
7	Ukrainian (uk) Пристрій захисного вимкнення		31.1247
8	Persian (fa) کلید محافظ جان		27.4908
9	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		25.1281
10	Portuguese (pt) Disjuntor diferencial		25.1235

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		6 607 738
2	English (en) Residual-current device		5 685 942
3	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		2 741 779
4	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		1 666 169
5	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		1 595 341
6	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		1 356 940
7	Dutch (nl) Aardlekschakelaar		929 584
8	Simple English (simple) Residual-current device		688 912
9	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		531 066
10	Swedish (sv) Jordfelsbrytare		511 474

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) Residual-current device		14 958
2	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		14 036
3	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		3 271
4	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		2 824
5	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		2 605
6	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		2 578
7	Simple English (simple) Residual-current device		2 404
8	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		1 977
9	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		1 890
10	Chinese (zh) 漏电保护器		1 503

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		411
2	English (en) Residual-current device		383
3	Dutch (nl) Aardlekschakelaar		126
4	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		95
5	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		87
6	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		81
7	Norwegian (no) Jordfeilbryter		55
8	Swedish (sv) Jordfelsbrytare		51
9	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		49
10	Finnish (fi) Vikavirtasuoja		46

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) Residual-current device		5
2	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		4
3	Catalan (ca) Interruptor diferencial		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Пристрій захисного вимкнення		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sızma cərəyanından mühafizə avtomatı		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Диференциалнотокова защита		0
7	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		0
8	Danish (da) Fejlstrømsafbryder		0
9	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		0
10	Estonian (et) Rikkevoolukaitselüliti		0

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

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