Perpetual motion

Quality:

Perpetual motion - work continuously done without an external supply of energy. Article “Perpetual motion” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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 “Perpetual motion”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2081 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2401 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #81 in July 2010
• Global: #1292 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #774 in August 2010
• Global: #7202 in June 2020

There are 35 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) Perpetual motion		67.6901
2	Catalan (ca) Moviment perpetu		48.4746
3	Urdu (ur) دائمی حرکت		42.6554
4	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		39.3077
5	Basque (eu) Betiereko mugimendu		38.0101
6	Finnish (fi) Ikiliikkuja		35.107
7	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		34.4081
8	Tamil (ta) இடையறா இயக்கம்		30.0097
9	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		28.1185
10	Galician (gl) Movemento perpetuo		26.1878

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perpetual motion		7 530 477
2	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		2 198 730
3	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		2 013 799
4	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		1 138 630
5	Chinese (zh) 永动机		895 489
6	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		655 197
7	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		653 598
8	Dutch (nl) Perpetuum mobile		471 227
9	Portuguese (pt) Moto-contínuo		439 565
10	Hungarian (hu) Örökmozgó		193 433

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) Perpetual motion		10 897
2	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		2 506
3	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		2 152
4	Chinese (zh) 永动机		1 469
5	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		893
6	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		751
7	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		579
8	Portuguese (pt) Moto-contínuo		552
9	Dutch (nl) Perpetuum mobile		551
10	Hungarian (hu) Örökmozgó		181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perpetual motion		755
2	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		156
3	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		140
4	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		115
5	Dutch (nl) Perpetuum mobile		111
6	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		108
7	Chinese (zh) 永动机		105
8	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		93
9	Hebrew (he) תנועה נצחית		56
10	Finnish (fi) Ikiliikkuja		51

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) Perpetual motion		9
2	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		1
3	Basque (eu) Betiereko mugimendu		1
4	Arabic (ar) حركة أبدية		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Daimi mühərrik		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Вечен двигател		0
7	Catalan (ca) Moviment perpetu		0
8	Greek (el) Αεικίνητο		0
9	Persian (fa) حرکت دائمی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Ikiliikkuja		0

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

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