Wankel engine

Quality:

Wankel engine - internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design in place of pistons. Article “Wankel engine” in English Wikipedia has 95.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 251 references and 45 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8086^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Wankel engine” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wankel engine”, its content was written by 659 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2851 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8086^th place).

The article is cited 635 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4683 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #984 in October 2003
• Global: #667 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3957 in February 2008
• Global: #2780 in October 2008

There are 44 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) Wankel engine		95.7786
2	German (de) Wankelmotor		92.1571
3	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		87.0892
4	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		68.3276
5	Chinese (zh) 汪克爾引擎		61.1193
6	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		51.5653
7	Catalan (ca) Motor Wankel		40.2647
8	Hungarian (hu) Wankel-motor		37.1152
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wankelmotor		31.024
10	Malay (ms) Enjin Wankel		30.5016

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wankel engine		8 472 686
2	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		4 054 546
3	German (de) Wankelmotor		3 551 626
4	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		2 124 923
5	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		1 928 552
6	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		1 130 665
7	Polish (pl) Silnik Wankla		980 270
8	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		978 010
9	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		624 276
10	Dutch (nl) Wankelmotor		462 027

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) Wankel engine		17 458
2	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		8 331
3	German (de) Wankelmotor		6 946
4	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		2 662
5	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		2 571
6	Polish (pl) Silnik Wankla		1 611
7	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		1 438
8	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		1 413
9	Chinese (zh) 汪克爾引擎		729
10	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		728

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wankel engine		659
2	German (de) Wankelmotor		535
3	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		213
4	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		197
5	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		119
6	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		111
7	Dutch (nl) Wankelmotor		105
8	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		103
9	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		61
10	Finnish (fi) Wankelmoottori		60

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	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		3
2	English (en) Wankel engine		2
3	Arabic (ar) محرك فانكل		1
4	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		1
5	Greek (el) Κινητήρας Βάνκελ		1
6	Galician (gl) Motor Wankel		1
7	Swedish (sv) Wankelmotor		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ванкелов двигател		0
9	Catalan (ca) Motor Wankel		0
10	Danish (da) Wankelmotor		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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