Steam engine

Quality:

Steam engine - heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Article “Steam engine” in English Wikipedia has 88.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 108 references and 39 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4498^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3782^nd most popular in all topics.

The 3133^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8773^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Steam engine” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8773^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Steam engine”, its content was written by 1185 registered users of English Wikipedia (4498^th place) and edited by 4448 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3133^rd place).

The article is cited 4925 times in English Wikipedia (4970^th place) and cited 26159 times in all languages (6451^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #600 in September 2001
• Global: #393 in April 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5859 in February 2015
• Global: #1720 in February 2015

There are 53 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	Norwegian (no) Dampmaskin		100
2	Slovenian (sl) Parni stroj		99.5925
3	Esperanto (eo) Vapormaŝino		93.0273
4	English (en) Steam engine		88.1479
5	Catalan (ca) Màquina de vapor		80.1502
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Parna mašina		68.6718
7	Russian (ru) Паровая машина		64.8786
8	German (de) Dampfmaschine		63.0626
9	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ hơi nước		59.6243
10	Spanish (es) Máquina de vapor		58.0597

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Steam engine		13 274 393
2	Spanish (es) Máquina de vapor		10 344 454
3	German (de) Dampfmaschine		4 580 892
4	Russian (ru) Паровая машина		3 136 023
5	French (fr) Machine à vapeur		2 758 396
6	Japanese (ja) 蒸気機関		1 451 471
7	Portuguese (pt) Motor a vapor		1 387 884
8	Italian (it) Motore a vapore		1 099 384
9	Czech (cs) Parní stroj		954 505
10	Dutch (nl) Stoommachine		905 172

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) Steam engine		24 892
2	Russian (ru) Паровая машина		8 057
3	German (de) Dampfmaschine		6 772
4	Spanish (es) Máquina de vapor		3 765
5	Japanese (ja) 蒸気機関		3 723
6	French (fr) Machine à vapeur		3 579
7	Chinese (zh) 蒸汽机		2 140
8	Dutch (nl) Stoommachine		1 439
9	Italian (it) Motore a vapore		1 203
10	Czech (cs) Parní stroj		1 178

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Steam engine		1 185
2	German (de) Dampfmaschine		353
3	Spanish (es) Máquina de vapor		307
4	French (fr) Machine à vapeur		252
5	Dutch (nl) Stoommachine		250
6	Russian (ru) Паровая машина		194
7	Swedish (sv) Ångmaskin		142
8	Italian (it) Motore a vapore		136
9	Czech (cs) Parní stroj		99
10	Norwegian (no) Dampmaskin		97

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) Steam engine		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Buxar maşını		2
3	Czech (cs) Parní stroj		2
4	Galician (gl) Máquina de vapor		2
5	Dutch (nl) Stoommachine		2
6	Catalan (ca) Màquina de vapor		1
7	Danish (da) Dampmaskine		1
8	Greek (el) Ατμομηχανή		1
9	Basque (eu) Lurrun-makina		1
10	French (fr) Machine à vapeur		1

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

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