Simple machine

Quality:

Simple machine - mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. Article “Simple machine” in English Wikipedia has 60.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 46 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Simple machine”, its content was written by 364 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1539 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 164 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1004 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10 in September 2001
• Global: #13 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3546 in February 2014
• Global: #2913 in February 2014

There are 44 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	Croatian (hr) Jednostavni stroj		67.9213
2	Spanish (es) Máquina simple		67.0826
3	Catalan (ca) Màquina simple		66.0889
4	English (en) Simple machine		60.7039
5	Serbian (sr) Jednostavna mašina		48.8488
6	Ukrainian (uk) Простий механізм		47.1795
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Enkel maskin		46.8758
8	Finnish (fi) Yksinkertainen kone		45.6965
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Jednostavni stroj		38.8552
10	Romanian (ro) Mașini simple		37.5555

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Máquina simple		11 227 612
2	English (en) Simple machine		7 169 046
3	Portuguese (pt) Máquina simples		1 232 334
4	Indonesian (id) Pesawat sederhana		959 340
5	Polish (pl) Maszyny proste		658 273
6	Arabic (ar) آلة بسيطة		637 959
7	Thai (th) เครื่องกลอย่างง่าย		496 797
8	Russian (ru) Простейший механизм		412 790
9	Italian (it) Macchina semplice		399 759
10	French (fr) Machine simple		357 707

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) Simple machine		25 592
2	Spanish (es) Máquina simple		1 964
3	Portuguese (pt) Máquina simples		484
4	French (fr) Machine simple		467
5	Russian (ru) Простейший механизм		436
6	Polish (pl) Maszyny proste		390
7	Turkish (tr) Basit makine		348
8	Chinese (zh) 简单机械		345
9	German (de) Einfache Maschine		299
10	Italian (it) Macchina semplice		253

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Simple machine		364
2	Spanish (es) Máquina simple		241
3	German (de) Einfache Maschine		107
4	Italian (it) Macchina semplice		66
5	French (fr) Machine simple		53
6	Hungarian (hu) Egyszerű gép		46
7	Portuguese (pt) Máquina simples		46
8	Polish (pl) Maszyny proste		45
9	Russian (ru) Простейший механизм		43
10	Turkish (tr) Basit makine		42

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	Spanish (es) Máquina simple		2
2	Basque (eu) Makina sinple		1
3	Russian (ru) Простейший механизм		1
4	Tamil (ta) எளிய இயந்திரம்		1
5	Thai (th) เครื่องกลอย่างง่าย		1
6	Arabic (ar) آلة بسيطة		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Прост механизъм		0
8	Catalan (ca) Màquina simple		0
9	Czech (cs) Jednoduchý stroj		0
10	Danish (da) Enkel maskine		0

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

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