Tractrix

Tractrix - Curve traced by a point pulled through a segment of fixed length by a point moving on a line. Article “Tractrix” in English Wikipedia has 38 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 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 “Tractrix”, its content was written by 87 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 26 times in English Wikipedia and cited 615 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14311 in August 2004
• Global: #26103 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #248037 in March 2022
• Global: #213755 in November 2008

There are 25 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	English (en) Tractrix		37.9628
2	Persian (fa) کشانده		35.5128
3	Finnish (fi) Traktrix		33.4072
4	Spanish (es) Tractriz		32.5485
5	Belarusian (be) Трактрыса		26.0114
6	German (de) Traktrix		20.6432
7	Russian (ru) Трактриса		20.0088
8	Chinese (zh) 曳物线		18.6682
9	French (fr) Tractrice		18.439
10	Catalan (ca) Tractriu		17.7238

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tractrix		321 124
2	German (de) Traktrix		240 984
3	Russian (ru) Трактриса		111 554
4	Spanish (es) Tractriz		80 564
5	Japanese (ja) トラクトリックス		56 005
6	Polish (pl) Traktrysa		52 064
7	Italian (it) Trattrice (geometria)		47 023
8	French (fr) Tractrice		24 888
9	Chinese (zh) 曳物线		23 324
10	Dutch (nl) Tractrix		10 200

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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 "Tractrix" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tractrix		1 717
2	German (de) Traktrix		456
3	Russian (ru) Трактриса		243
4	Japanese (ja) トラクトリックス		183
5	Spanish (es) Tractriz		178
6	Chinese (zh) 曳物线		123
7	Italian (it) Trattrice (geometria)		117
8	Polish (pl) Traktrysa		88
9	French (fr) Tractrice		67
10	Korean (ko) 추적선		48

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tractrix		87
2	German (de) Traktrix		50
3	Russian (ru) Трактриса		33
4	French (fr) Tractrice		31
5	Italian (it) Trattrice (geometria)		24
6	Dutch (nl) Tractrix		21
7	Polish (pl) Traktrysa		18
8	Spanish (es) Tractriz		17
9	Ukrainian (uk) Трактриса		12
10	Chinese (zh) 曳物线		12

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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 "Tractrix" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Trattrice (geometria)		1
2	Arabic (ar) منحنى متساوي المماسات		0
3	Belarusian (be) Трактрыса		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Трактриса		0
5	Catalan (ca) Tractriu		0
6	German (de) Traktrix		0
7	English (en) Tractrix		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Trenkurbo		0
9	Spanish (es) Tractriz		0
10	Persian (fa) کشانده		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 "Tractrix" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Трактриса		130
2	Chinese (zh) 曳物线		112
3	Ukrainian (uk) Трактриса		104
4	Slovenian (sl) Traktrisa		94
5	German (de) Traktrix		37
6	English (en) Tractrix		26
7	French (fr) Tractrice		21
8	Japanese (ja) トラクトリックス		13
9	Catalan (ca) Tractriu		9
10	Spanish (es) Tractriz		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic منحنى متساوي المماسات
be	Belarusian Трактрыса
bg	Bulgarian Трактриса
ca	Catalan Tractriu
de	German Traktrix
en	English Tractrix
eo	Esperanto Trenkurbo
es	Spanish Tractriz
fa	Persian کشانده
fi	Finnish Traktrix
fr	French Tractrice
he	Hebrew טרקטריקס
hy	Armenian Տրակտրիս
it	Italian Trattrice (geometria)
ja	Japanese トラクトリックス
ko	Korean 추적선
nl	Dutch Tractrix
no	Norwegian Traktrise
pl	Polish Traktrysa
pt	Portuguese Tractriz
ru	Russian Трактриса
sl	Slovenian Traktrisa
sv	Swedish Traktris
uk	Ukrainian Трактриса
zh	Chinese 曳物线

Best Rank

English: #248037 03.2022

Global: #213755 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #14311 08.2004

Global: #26103 12.2009

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