Electrical telegraph

Quality:

Electrical telegraph - early system for transmitting text over wires. Article “Electrical telegraph” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Electrical telegraph”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 782 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4048 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #482 in October 2014
• Global: #132 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3731 in August 2015
• Global: #41958 in September 2019

There are 22 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	Portuguese (pt) Telégrafo elétrico		90.4017
2	French (fr) Télégraphie électrique		89.6829
3	English (en) Electrical telegraph		81.4767
4	Russian (ru) Электрический телеграф		47.7693
5	German (de) Elektrischer Telegraf		45.7712
6	Japanese (ja) 電信		40.1443
7	Malay (ms) Telegraf elektrik		28.6612
8	Arabic (ar) إبراق كهربائي		24.7779
9	Esperanto (eo) Elektra telegrafo		23.2253
10	Vietnamese (vi) Máy điện báo		18.7278

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electrical telegraph		3 936 121
2	Japanese (ja) 電信		656 186
3	Russian (ru) Электрический телеграф		326 325
4	Catalan (ca) Telègraf elèctric		72 071
5	Korean (ko) 전신		51 797
6	French (fr) Télégraphie électrique		47 655
7	Danish (da) Elektrisk telegraf		35 236
8	Arabic (ar) إبراق كهربائي		29 376
9	Indonesian (id) Telegraf listrik		27 944
10	Bulgarian (bg) Електрически телеграф		21 302

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) Electrical telegraph		13 571
2	Japanese (ja) 電信		1 704
3	Russian (ru) Электрический телеграф		936
4	French (fr) Télégraphie électrique		554
5	German (de) Elektrischer Telegraf		433
6	Portuguese (pt) Telégrafo elétrico		330
7	Korean (ko) 전신		174
8	Simple English (simple) Electrical telegraph		79
9	Bulgarian (bg) Електрически телеграф		46
10	Catalan (ca) Telègraf elèctric		46

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electrical telegraph		490
2	Japanese (ja) 電信		74
3	Russian (ru) Электрический телеграф		54
4	Catalan (ca) Telègraf elèctric		26
5	Danish (da) Elektrisk telegraf		20
6	Simple English (simple) Electrical telegraph		19
7	Galician (gl) Telégrafo eléctrico		17
8	French (fr) Télégraphie électrique		15
9	German (de) Elektrischer Telegraf		10
10	Korean (ko) 전신		10

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	Arabic (ar) إبراق كهربائي		1
2	Catalan (ca) Telègraf elèctric		1
3	Galician (gl) Telégrafo eléctrico		1
4	Japanese (ja) 電信		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Електричний телеграф		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Електрически телеграф		0
7	Danish (da) Elektrisk telegraf		0
8	German (de) Elektrischer Telegraf		0
9	English (en) Electrical telegraph		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Elektra telegrafo		0

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

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