Square wave (waveform)

Square wave - type of non-sinusoidal waveform. Article "Square wave (waveform)" in English Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Square wave (waveform)", its content was written by 121 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 535 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 238 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #642 in September 2003
• Global: #3120 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38293 in February 2019
• Global: #37262 in November 2014

There are 26 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Firkantkurve		29.6166
2	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		27.8926
3	Slovenian (sl) Kvadratni val		24.186
4	Chinese (zh) 方波		19.8722
5	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		19.4311
6	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		18.858
7	Turkish (tr) Kare dalga		18.7603
8	Korean (ko) 방형파		18.0423
9	Czech (cs) Obdélníkový průběh		17.8355
10	Estonian (et) Nelinurklaine		17.0865

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Square wave (waveform)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		2 459 351
2	Japanese (ja) 矩形波		977 279
3	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		469 516
4	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		468 648
5	Russian (ru) Меандр (радиотехника)		427 014
6	French (fr) Signal carré		342 727
7	Chinese (zh) 方波		295 749
8	Italian (it) Onda quadra		294 713
9	Portuguese (pt) Onda quadrada		175 692
10	Finnish (fi) Kanttiaalto		45 011

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Square wave (waveform)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		6 160
2	Japanese (ja) 矩形波		1 909
3	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		1 007
4	Russian (ru) Меандр (радиотехника)		984
5	Chinese (zh) 方波		695
6	French (fr) Signal carré		588
7	Italian (it) Onda quadra		527
8	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		476
9	Portuguese (pt) Onda quadrada		127
10	Turkish (tr) Kare dalga		111

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

Language versions of the article "Square wave (waveform)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		121
2	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		67
3	Italian (it) Onda quadra		53
4	Russian (ru) Меандр (радиотехника)		39
5	French (fr) Signal carré		34
6	Dutch (nl) Blokgolf		33
7	Japanese (ja) 矩形波		23
8	Chinese (zh) 方波		21
9	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		17
10	Finnish (fi) Kanttiaalto		16

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

Language versions of the article "Square wave (waveform)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 矩形波		1
2	Arabic (ar) موجة مربعة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Ona quadrada		0
4	Czech (cs) Obdélníkový průběh		0
5	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		0
6	Greek (el) Τετραγωνικό κύμα		0
7	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Ortangula ondo		0
9	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		0
10	Estonian (et) Nelinurklaine		0

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

Language versions of the article "Square wave (waveform)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Square wave (waveform)		238
2	Japanese (ja) 矩形波		100
3	German (de) Rechteckschwingung		95
4	French (fr) Signal carré		94
5	Italian (it) Onda quadra		85
6	Chinese (zh) 方波		63
7	Spanish (es) Onda cuadrada		52
8	Persian (fa) موج مربعی		47
9	Portuguese (pt) Onda quadrada		35
10	Swedish (sv) Fyrkantsvåg		35

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic موجة مربعة
ca	Catalan Ona quadrada
cs	Czech Obdélníkový průběh
de	German Rechteckschwingung
el	Greek Τετραγωνικό κύμα
en	English Square wave (waveform)
eo	Esperanto Ortangula ondo
es	Spanish Onda cuadrada
et	Estonian Nelinurklaine
fa	Persian موج مربعی
fi	Finnish Kanttiaalto
fr	French Signal carré
he	Hebrew גל מרובע
hi	Hindi वर्ग तरंगरूप
it	Italian Onda quadra
ja	Japanese 矩形波
ko	Korean 방형파
nl	Dutch Blokgolf
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Firkantkurve
pt	Portuguese Onda quadrada
ru	Russian Меандр (радиотехника)
sl	Slovenian Kvadratni val
sv	Swedish Fyrkantsvåg
tr	Turkish Kare dalga
uk	Ukrainian Меандр (радіотехніка)
zh	Chinese 方波

Best Rank

English: #38293 02.2019

Global: #37262 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #642 09.2003

Global: #3120 09.2003

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