Wave equation

Quality:

Wave equation - second-order linear differential equation important in physics. Article “Wave equation” in English Wikipedia has 63.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.36 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Wave equation” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wave equation”, its content was written by 284 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 270 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2009 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #993 in January 2003
• Global: #2449 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3737 in November 2014
• Global: #8766 in November 2014

There are 40 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) Wave equation		63.745
2	Greek (el) Κυματική εξίσωση		57.6901
3	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		50.1109
4	Norwegian (no) Bølgeligning		46.783
5	Malay (ms) Persamaan gelombang		44.9297
6	Catalan (ca) Equació d'ona		35.664
7	Hebrew (he) משוואת הגלים		31.0232
8	Estonian (et) Lainevõrrand		29.271
9	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		29.1166
10	Galician (gl) Ecuación de onda		28.2642

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wave equation		5 508 585
2	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		1 209 699
3	German (de) Wellengleichung		911 017
4	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		714 078
5	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		709 785
6	French (fr) Équation des ondes		602 278
7	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		468 716
8	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		453 712
9	Portuguese (pt) Equação de onda		285 152
10	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		277 584

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) Wave equation		9 663
2	German (de) Wellengleichung		1 560
3	French (fr) Équation des ondes		1 357
4	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		1 283
5	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		1 038
6	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		1 006
7	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		711
8	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		700
9	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		548
10	Korean (ko) 파동 방정식		305

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wave equation		284
2	German (de) Wellengleichung		104
3	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		79
4	French (fr) Équation des ondes		64
5	Hebrew (he) משוואת הגלים		46
6	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		40
7	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		38
8	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		36
9	Hungarian (hu) Hullámegyenlet		33
10	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		30

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) Wave equation		3
2	French (fr) Équation des ondes		1
3	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		1
4	Arabic (ar) معادلة موجية		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Вълново уравнение		0
6	Catalan (ca) Equació d'ona		0
7	Czech (cs) Vlnová rovnice		0
8	Danish (da) Bølgeligningen		0
9	German (de) Wellengleichung		0
10	Greek (el) Κυματική εξίσωση		0

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

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