Traction engine

Traction engine - self-propelled steam engine. Article “Traction engine” in English Wikipedia has 80.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 65 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Traction engine”, its content was written by 170 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 375 times in English Wikipedia and cited 526 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37736 in March 2005
• Global: #33270 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134111 in September 2008
• Global: #194478 in September 2008

There are 8 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	English (en) Traction engine		80.1503
2	Spanish (es) Locotractor		50.4085
3	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		43.0028
4	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		31.2536
5	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		26.8392
6	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		17.0617
7	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		10.6636
8	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		3.0132

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Traction engine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traction engine		1 036 838
2	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		55 030
3	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		51 617
4	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		28 373
5	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		14 061
6	Spanish (es) Locotractor		12 786
7	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		7 231
8	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		5 471

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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 "Traction engine" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traction engine		3 694
2	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		203
3	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		191
4	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		132
5	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		75
6	Spanish (es) Locotractor		51
7	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		44
8	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Traction engine		170
2	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		34
3	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		20
4	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		19
5	Spanish (es) Locotractor		9
6	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		8
7	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		4
8	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		3

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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 "Traction engine" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		0
2	English (en) Traction engine		0
3	Spanish (es) Locotractor		0
4	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		0
5	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		0
6	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		0
7	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		0
8	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		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 "Traction engine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Traction engine		375
2	Dutch (nl) Tractiemachine		36
3	German (de) Dampfzugmaschine		32
4	Japanese (ja) トラクションエンジン		27
5	Spanish (es) Locotractor		23
6	French (fr) Locomobile automotrice		14
7	Finnish (fi) Vetokone		11
8	Indonesian (id) Mesin traksi		8

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#	Language	Value
de	German Dampfzugmaschine
en	English Traction engine
es	Spanish Locotractor
fi	Finnish Vetokone
fr	French Locomobile automotrice
id	Indonesian Mesin traksi
ja	Japanese トラクションエンジン
nl	Dutch Tractiemachine

Best Rank

English: #134111 09.2008

Global: #194478 09.2008

Best Rank

English: #37736 03.2005

Global: #33270 10.2005

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