Kinetic energy

Quality:

Kinetic energy - energy of a moving physical body. Article “Kinetic energy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.28 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3814^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2538^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2614^th most popular in all topics.

The 6224^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2171^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Kinetic energy” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2171^st place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kinetic energy”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2538^th place) and edited by 3239 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6224^th place).

The article is cited 78 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14801 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #62 in October 2015
• Global: #540 in July 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #319 in April 2014
• Global: #1024 in November 2011

There are 53 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) Kinetic energy		51.7203
2	Finnish (fi) Liike-energia		42.4723
3	Hindi (hi) गतिज ऊर्जा		31.5022
4	Turkish (tr) Kinetik enerji		30.5697
5	Russian (ru) Кинетическая энергия		29.3642
6	Catalan (ca) Energia cinètica		28.1706
7	Croatian (hr) Kinetička energija		26.912
8	Indonesian (id) Energi kinetik		26.73
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kinetička energija		26.7116
10	Tamil (ta) இயக்க ஆற்றல்		26.0657

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kinetic energy		15 536 102
2	Spanish (es) Energía cinética		15 241 592
3	German (de) Kinetische Energie		3 416 579
4	French (fr) Énergie cinétique		3 413 568
5	Russian (ru) Кинетическая энергия		3 245 145
6	Portuguese (pt) Energia cinética		2 546 633
7	Italian (it) Energia cinetica		1 941 559
8	Polish (pl) Energia kinetyczna		1 474 161
9	Japanese (ja) 運動エネルギー		1 150 466
10	Arabic (ar) طاقة حركية		1 139 171

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) Kinetic energy		14 526
2	Spanish (es) Energía cinética		3 082
3	French (fr) Énergie cinétique		3 074
4	German (de) Kinetische Energie		3 003
5	Russian (ru) Кинетическая энергия		2 852
6	Persian (fa) انرژی جنبشی		2 124
7	Italian (it) Energia cinetica		1 063
8	Japanese (ja) 運動エネルギー		1 025
9	Chinese (zh) 动能		816
10	Polish (pl) Energia kinetyczna		767

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kinetic energy		811
2	German (de) Kinetische Energie		254
3	Spanish (es) Energía cinética		254
4	French (fr) Énergie cinétique		218
5	Italian (it) Energia cinetica		139
6	Portuguese (pt) Energia cinética		99
7	Dutch (nl) Kinetische energie		90
8	Russian (ru) Кинетическая энергия		88
9	Hebrew (he) אנרגיה קינטית		82
10	Danish (da) Kinetisk energi		60

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	Thai (th) พลังงานจลน์		2
2	Spanish (es) Energía cinética		1
3	Basque (eu) Energia zinetiko		1
4	Croatian (hr) Kinetička energija		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Mozgási energia		1
6	Italian (it) Energia cinetica		1
7	Korean (ko) 운동 에너지		1
8	Simple English (simple) Kinetic energy		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кінетична енергія		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Kinetik energiya		1

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

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