Crystal radio

Quality:

Crystal radio - simple radio receiver circuit used mostly for AM reception. Article “Crystal radio” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Crystal radio”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1085 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 912 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1505 in February 2012
• Global: #3570 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4778 in April 2022
• Global: #26186 in December 2011

There are 32 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) Crystal radio		100
2	Spanish (es) Radio de galena		99.6657
3	German (de) Detektorempfänger		59.6964
4	French (fr) Récepteur à cristal		59.319
5	Ukrainian (uk) Детекторний приймач		44.454
6	Bulgarian (bg) Детекторен радиоприемник		37.3822
7	Italian (it) Radio a galena		35.0898
8	Japanese (ja) 鉱石ラジオ		34.1637
9	Persian (fa) رادیو کریستالی		32.472
10	Russian (ru) Детекторный радиоприёмник		32.4066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crystal radio		2 718 013
2	Japanese (ja) 鉱石ラジオ		742 907
3	Spanish (es) Radio de galena		639 718
4	German (de) Detektorempfänger		583 555
5	Russian (ru) Детекторный радиоприёмник		468 965
6	French (fr) Récepteur à cristal		456 970
7	Italian (it) Radio a galena		247 367
8	Portuguese (pt) Rádio de galena		209 971
9	Chinese (zh) 矿石收音机		152 872
10	Czech (cs) Krystalka		101 475

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) Crystal radio		6 316
2	Japanese (ja) 鉱石ラジオ		1 692
3	German (de) Detektorempfänger		966
4	French (fr) Récepteur à cristal		939
5	Russian (ru) Детекторный радиоприёмник		899
6	Spanish (es) Radio de galena		701
7	Italian (it) Radio a galena		485
8	Chinese (zh) 矿石收音机		458
9	Czech (cs) Krystalka		233
10	Portuguese (pt) Rádio de galena		212

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Crystal radio		297
2	German (de) Detektorempfänger		142
3	French (fr) Récepteur à cristal		116
4	Spanish (es) Radio de galena		76
5	Italian (it) Radio a galena		63
6	Russian (ru) Детекторный радиоприёмник		47
7	Dutch (nl) Kristalontvanger		45
8	Japanese (ja) 鉱石ラジオ		42
9	Danish (da) Diodemodtager		31
10	Vietnamese (vi) Máy thu vô tuyến tinh thể		25

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	Hungarian (hu) Detektoros rádió		1
2	Japanese (ja) 鉱石ラジオ		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Rádio de galena		1
4	Arabic (ar) مستقبل راديو بلوري		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Детекторен радиоприемник		0
6	Catalan (ca) Ràdio de galena		0
7	Czech (cs) Krystalka		0
8	Danish (da) Diodemodtager		0
9	German (de) Detektorempfänger		0
10	English (en) Crystal radio		0

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

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