The Difference Engine

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The Difference Engine

Quality:

The Difference Engine - 1990 novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. This book is the 3245th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "The Difference Engine" in English Wikipedia has 36.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 11 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 3245th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article "The Difference Engine" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "The Difference Engine", its content was written by 155 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 401 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Difference Engine is on the 3245th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 319 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4872 in June 2003
  • Global: #10835 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #65484 in July 2008
  • Global: #94299 in July 2008

There are 14 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Russian (ru)
Машина различий
89.1499
2English (en)
The Difference Engine
36.362
3Hungarian (hu)
A gépezet
34.8961
4Romanian (ro)
Machina diferențială
19.4285
5Ukrainian (uk)
Різницева машина (роман)
18.4482
6Finnish (fi)
The Difference Engine
14.546
7German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
13.3509
8Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
12.5388
9Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
8.4713
10French (fr)
La Machine à différences
3.2315
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Difference Engine" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Difference Engine
1 112 289
2Russian (ru)
Машина различий
179 469
3German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
97 548
4Spanish (es)
La máquina diferencial
74 476
5Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
66 742
6Polish (pl)
Maszyna różnicowa (powieść)
62 562
7French (fr)
La Machine à différences
53 865
8Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
18 537
9Portuguese (pt)
The Difference Engine
12 439
10Hungarian (hu)
A gépezet
7 160
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "The Difference Engine" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Difference Engine
4 691
2Russian (ru)
Машина различий
734
3French (fr)
La Machine à différences
350
4German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
326
5Spanish (es)
La máquina diferencial
167
6Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
166
7Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
127
8Polish (pl)
Maszyna różnicowa (powieść)
107
9Portuguese (pt)
The Difference Engine
53
10Ukrainian (uk)
Різницева машина (роман)
48
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Difference Engine" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Difference Engine
155
2Russian (ru)
Машина различий
55
3German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
47
4French (fr)
La Machine à différences
40
5Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
23
6Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
15
7Spanish (es)
La máquina diferencial
14
8Hungarian (hu)
A gépezet
13
9Ukrainian (uk)
Різницева машина (роман)
12
10Polish (pl)
Maszyna różnicowa (powieść)
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "The Difference Engine" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Difference Engine
1
2Ukrainian (uk)
Різницева машина (роман)
1
3Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
1
4German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
0
5Spanish (es)
La máquina diferencial
0
6Finnish (fi)
The Difference Engine
0
7French (fr)
La Machine à différences
0
8Hungarian (hu)
A gépezet
0
9Indonesian (id)
The Difference Engine
0
10Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Difference Engine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Difference Engine
100
2Russian (ru)
Машина различий
42
3Romanian (ro)
Machina diferențială
32
4French (fr)
La Machine à différences
31
5Ukrainian (uk)
Різницева машина (роман)
18
6German (de)
Die Differenzmaschine
17
7Spanish (es)
La máquina diferencial
16
8Italian (it)
La macchina della realtà
15
9Polish (pl)
Maszyna różnicowa (powieść)
14
10Chinese (zh)
差分機 (小說)
12
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Die Differenzmaschine
enEnglish
The Difference Engine
esSpanish
La máquina diferencial
fiFinnish
The Difference Engine
frFrench
La Machine à différences
huHungarian
A gépezet
idIndonesian
The Difference Engine
itItalian
La macchina della realtà
plPolish
Maszyna różnicowa (powieść)
ptPortuguese
The Difference Engine
roRomanian
Machina diferențială
ruRussian
Машина различий
ukUkrainian
Різницева машина (роман)
zhChinese
差分機 (小說)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#65484
07.2008
Global:
#94299
07.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4872
06.2003
Global:
#10835
06.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Difference Engine from Wikipedia articles about William Gibson, Steampunk, Bruce Sterling, Difference engine and Analytical engine. Whereas reading the article about The Difference Engine people most often go to Wikipedia articles on William Gibson, Difference engine, Steampunk, The Chaos Engine and Bruce Sterling.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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