Driveshaft

Drive shaft - mechanical component for transmitting torque and rotation. Article “Driveshaft” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.84 points.

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 “Driveshaft”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 456 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5730 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4648 in March 2014
• Global: #23486 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1219 in March 2015
• Global: #39685 in April 2013

There are 20 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) Drive shaft		50.1854
2	Simple English (simple) Driveshaft		34.9132
3	Ukrainian (uk) Приводний вал		31.2309
4	Indonesian (id) Gandar gerak		28.9147
5	Arabic (ar) عمود تدوير		23.8114
6	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		23.0705
7	Polish (pl) Wał napędowy (motoryzacja)		21.7898
8	Catalan (ca) Eix de transmissió		21.0387
9	Korean (ko) 구동축		20.3387
10	Italian (it) Albero di trasmissione		19.2599

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drive shaft		4 135 406
2	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		578 987
3	German (de) Antriebswelle		512 814
4	Japanese (ja) ドライブシャフト		508 698
5	Portuguese (pt) Eixo cardã		276 424
6	Italian (it) Albero di trasmissione		112 860
7	Chinese (zh) 传动轴		54 046
8	French (fr) Arbre de transmission		47 562
9	Swedish (sv) Drivaxel		43 858
10	Persian (fa) میل کاردان		35 219

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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 "Driveshaft" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drive shaft		8 437
2	German (de) Antriebswelle		896
3	Japanese (ja) ドライブシャフト		866
4	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		496
5	Portuguese (pt) Eixo cardã		460
6	French (fr) Arbre de transmission		427
7	Chinese (zh) 传动轴		409
8	Simple English (simple) Driveshaft		345
9	Italian (it) Albero di trasmissione		325
10	Polish (pl) Wał napędowy (motoryzacja)		168

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drive shaft		246
2	German (de) Antriebswelle		31
3	Italian (it) Albero di trasmissione		24
4	Portuguese (pt) Eixo cardã		23
5	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		20
6	Japanese (ja) ドライブシャフト		20
7	Chinese (zh) 传动轴		14
8	Norwegian (no) Drivaksling		13
9	Persian (fa) میل کاردان		12
10	French (fr) Arbre de transmission		11

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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 "Driveshaft" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 传动轴		1
2	Arabic (ar) عمود تدوير		0
3	Catalan (ca) Eix de transmissió		0
4	Danish (da) Drivaksel		0
5	German (de) Antriebswelle		0
6	English (en) Drive shaft		0
7	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		0
8	Persian (fa) میل کاردان		0
9	French (fr) Arbre de transmission		0
10	Indonesian (id) Gandar gerak		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 "Driveshaft" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Drive shaft		3 353
2	Japanese (ja) ドライブシャフト		479
3	Chinese (zh) 传动轴		357
4	Italian (it) Albero di trasmissione		306
5	French (fr) Arbre de transmission		290
6	German (de) Antriebswelle		171
7	Portuguese (pt) Eixo cardã		150
8	Spanish (es) Eje de transmisión		132
9	Ukrainian (uk) Приводний вал		118
10	Catalan (ca) Eix de transmissió		74

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عمود تدوير
ca	Catalan Eix de transmissió
da	Danish Drivaksel
de	German Antriebswelle
en	English Drive shaft
es	Spanish Eje de transmisión
fa	Persian میل کاردان
fr	French Arbre de transmission
id	Indonesian Gandar gerak
it	Italian Albero di trasmissione
ja	Japanese ドライブシャフト
ko	Korean 구동축
no	Norwegian Drivaksling
pl	Polish Wał napędowy (motoryzacja)
pt	Portuguese Eixo cardã
simple	Simple English Driveshaft
sl	Slovenian Pogonska gred
sv	Swedish Drivaxel
uk	Ukrainian Приводний вал
zh	Chinese 传动轴

Best Rank

Simple English: #1219 03.2015

Global: #39685 04.2013

Best Rank

Simple English: #4648 03.2014

Global: #23486 01.2006

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