Wankel motor

Quality:

Wankel engine - internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design in place of pistons. Article “Wankel motor” in Basque Wikipedia has 7.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.38 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8005^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Wankel motor”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 2822 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8005^th place).

The article is cited 9 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 4667 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #1087 in January 2022
• Global: #661 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #3319 in April 2023
• Global: #2783 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, 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) Wankel engine		95.7191
2	German (de) Wankelmotor		92.9794
3	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		86.6081
4	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		69.0332
5	Chinese (zh) 汪克爾引擎		61.1576
6	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		51.0744
7	Catalan (ca) Motor Wankel		40.256
8	Malay (ms) Enjin Wankel		32.2009
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wankelmotor		31.024
10	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		30.2719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wankel engine		8 224 929
2	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		3 950 083
3	German (de) Wankelmotor		3 453 961
4	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		1 899 626
5	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		1 885 728
6	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		1 098 051
7	Polish (pl) Silnik Wankla		955 125
8	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		948 797
9	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		611 947
10	Dutch (nl) Wankelmotor		451 384

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		21 710
2	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		7 774
3	German (de) Wankelmotor		7 718
4	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		3 515
5	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		3 291
6	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		2 908
7	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		1 961
8	Polish (pl) Silnik Wankla		1 573
9	Portuguese (pt) Motor Wankel		1 168
10	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		890

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		646
2	German (de) Wankelmotor		532
3	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		209
4	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		195
5	Italian (it) Motore Wankel		117
6	Russian (ru) Роторно-поршневой двигатель		110
7	Dutch (nl) Wankelmotor		105
8	Spanish (es) Motor Wankel		101
9	Norwegian (no) Wankelmotor		62
10	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		59

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) Wankel engine		4
2	French (fr) Moteur Wankel		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Wankel-motor		1
4	Japanese (ja) ロータリーエンジン		1
5	Arabic (ar) محرك فانكل		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ванкелов двигател		0
7	Catalan (ca) Motor Wankel		0
8	Czech (cs) Wankelův motor		0
9	Danish (da) Wankelmotor		0
10	German (de) Wankelmotor		0

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

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