Steam-powered aircraft

Steam aircraft - aircraft propelled by a steam engine. Article “Steam-powered aircraft” in English Wikipedia has 31.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Steam-powered aircraft”, its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 95 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in English Wikipedia and cited 56 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40049 in November 2022
• Global: #127807 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #238217 in January 2011
• Global: #375986 in January 2011

There are 6 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	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		38.0781
2	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		31.7958
3	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		28.209
4	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		14.4234
5	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		5.9469
6	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		1.7356

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Steam-powered aircraft" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		333 047
2	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		53 648
3	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		11 839
4	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		4 040
5	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		3 882
6	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		2 813

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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 "Steam-powered aircraft" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		1 514
2	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		126
3	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		92
4	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		59
5	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		9
6	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		5

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

Language versions of the article "Steam-powered aircraft" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		58
2	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		19
3	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		9
4	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		5
5	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		2
6	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		2

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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 "Steam-powered aircraft" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		0
2	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		0
3	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		0
4	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		0
5	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		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 "Steam-powered aircraft" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Steam-powered aircraft		27
2	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave a vapor		20
3	German (de) Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler		5
4	Finnish (fi) Höyrylentokone		2
5	Japanese (ja) ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン		2
6	Arabic (ar) طائرات البخار		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طائرات البخار
de	German Dampfflugzeug der Brüder Besler
en	English Steam-powered aircraft
fi	Finnish Höyrylentokone
ja	Japanese ベスラー・スチーム・エアプレーン
pt	Portuguese Aeronave a vapor

Best Rank

English: #238217 01.2011

Global: #375986 01.2011

Best Rank

English: #40049 11.2022

Global: #127807 03.2011

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