Fan (machine)

Quality:

Mechanical fan - machine with spinning blades used to create airflow. Article “Fan (machine)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Fan (machine)”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2331 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 126 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5750 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #252 in December 2010
• Global: #3647 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1860 in June 2018
• Global: #12710 in July 2010

There are 48 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	Chinese (zh) 风扇		64.7625
2	German (de) Ventilator		57.3229
3	English (en) Fan (machine)		54.7621
4	Vietnamese (vi) Quạt điện		53.11
5	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		50.6256
6	Italian (it) Ventilatore		37.6532
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Hong-sìⁿ		36.4162
8	Spanish (es) Ventilador		35.6762
9	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		32.5052
10	Turkish (tr) Vantilatör		32.5037

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		3 578 471
2	Spanish (es) Ventilador		2 081 001
3	German (de) Ventilator		1 067 168
4	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		907 851
5	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		808 507
6	Indonesian (id) Kipas angin		499 807
7	French (fr) Ventilateur		447 379
8	Polish (pl) Wentylator		420 112
9	Italian (it) Ventilatore		362 647
10	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		349 523

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) Fan (machine)		12 290
2	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		2 382
3	Spanish (es) Ventilador		2 150
4	German (de) Ventilator		2 140
5	French (fr) Ventilateur		1 933
6	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		1 702
7	Chinese (zh) 风扇		1 284
8	Italian (it) Ventilatore		1 162
9	Korean (ko) 선풍기		1 159
10	Thai (th) พัดลม		808

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fan (machine)		466
2	German (de) Ventilator		254
3	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		157
4	Spanish (es) Ventilador		132
5	French (fr) Ventilateur		131
6	Japanese (ja) 扇風機		130
7	Italian (it) Ventilatore		126
8	Portuguese (pt) Ventilador		77
9	Dutch (nl) Ventilator		66
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quạt điện		61

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	German (de) Ventilator		3
2	English (en) Fan (machine)		3
3	Esperanto (eo) Ventolilo		1
4	French (fr) Ventilateur		1
5	Italian (it) Ventilatore		1
6	Korean (ko) 선풍기		1
7	Russian (ru) Вентилятор		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Quạt điện		1
9	Chinese (zh) 风扇		1
10	Arabic (ar) مروحة (آلة)		0

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

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