Hydroelectricity

Quality:

Hydroelectricity - electricity generated by hydropower. Article “Hydroelectricity” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 765^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 396^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9744^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3771^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Hydroelectricity”, its content was written by 128 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (396^th place) and edited by 2599 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9744^th place).

The article is cited 160 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23167 times in all languages (7375^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5 in February 2017
• Global: #286 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #54 in May 2009
• Global: #1395 in October 2013

There are 37 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	Catalan (ca) Energia hidroelèctrica		88.8476
2	Croatian (hr) Hidroelektrična energija		88.366
3	English (en) Hydroelectricity		86.3137
4	Portuguese (pt) Hidroeletricidade		80.1928
5	Spanish (es) Hidroelectricidad		75.3327
6	Azerbaijani (az) Su elektroenergetikası		73.3424
7	Tamil (ta) நீர் மின் ஆற்றல்		69.3736
8	Polish (pl) Energetyka wodna		60.3126
9	Greek (el) Υδροηλεκτρική ενέργεια		56
10	Chinese (zh) 水力發電		55.022

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hydroelectricity		14 622 079
2	French (fr) Énergie hydroélectrique		3 667 122
3	Japanese (ja) 水力発電		2 121 079
4	Italian (it) Energia idroelettrica		1 338 444
5	Chinese (zh) 水力發電		925 082
6	Arabic (ar) طاقة كهرمائية		807 176
7	Spanish (es) Hidroelectricidad		676 005
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy điện		599 064
9	Persian (fa) برق آبی		531 993
10	Hindi (hi) जलविद्युत ऊर्जा		521 119

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) Hydroelectricity		12 377
2	Japanese (ja) 水力発電		2 062
3	French (fr) Énergie hydroélectrique		1 840
4	Chinese (zh) 水力發電		1 490
5	Spanish (es) Hidroelectricidad		898
6	Italian (it) Energia idroelettrica		629
7	Persian (fa) برق آبی		480
8	Portuguese (pt) Hidroeletricidade		375
9	Simple English (simple) Hydroelectricity		371
10	Russian (ru) Гидроэнергетика		279

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hydroelectricity		1 070
2	French (fr) Énergie hydroélectrique		365
3	Italian (it) Energia idroelettrica		157
4	Simple English (simple) Hydroelectricity		128
5	Japanese (ja) 水力発電		127
6	Hebrew (he) אנרגיה הידרואלקטרית		126
7	Chinese (zh) 水力發電		105
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thủy điện		77
9	Persian (fa) برق آبی		58
10	Arabic (ar) طاقة كهرمائية		55

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) Hydroelectricity		6
2	Croatian (hr) Hidroelektrična energija		2
3	Polish (pl) Energetyka wodna		2
4	Russian (ru) Гидроэнергетика		2
5	Catalan (ca) Energia hidroelèctrica		1
6	Spanish (es) Hidroelectricidad		1
7	Arabic (ar) طاقة كهرمائية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Su elektroenergetikası		0
9	Greek (el) Υδροηλεκτρική ενέργεια		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Hidroelektro		0

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

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