Perpetual motion

Quality:

Perpetual motion - work continuously done without an external supply of energy. Article “Perpetual motion” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 1888 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 53 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2179 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #82 in July 2010
• Global: #1288 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #774 in August 2010
• Global: #7341 in June 2020

There are 33 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	English (en) Perpetual motion		67.915
2	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		43.5026
3	Urdu (ur) دائمی حرکت		38.4758
4	Basque (eu) Betiereko mugimendu		38.3184
5	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		34.814
6	Tamil (ta) இடையறா இயக்கம்		30.0111
7	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		28.349
8	Catalan (ca) Moviment perpetu		28.1677
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вічний двигун		27.7177
10	Chinese (zh) 永动机		26.3135

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perpetual motion		7 379 042
2	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		2 156 012
3	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		1 834 612
4	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		1 125 347
5	Chinese (zh) 永动机		869 836
6	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		644 304
7	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		639 672
8	Portuguese (pt) Moto-contínuo		434 136
9	Hungarian (hu) Örökmozgó		189 701
10	Vietnamese (vi) Động cơ vĩnh cửu		135 811

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		18 467
2	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		4 204
3	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		3 345
4	Chinese (zh) 永动机		2 329
5	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		1 416
6	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		1 133
7	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		1 063
8	Simple English (simple) Perpetual motion		674
9	Korean (ko) 영구 기관		662
10	Serbian (sr) Перпетуум мобиле		514

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		745
2	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		152
3	French (fr) Mouvement perpétuel		139
4	Italian (it) Moto perpetuo		115
5	Japanese (ja) 永久機関		105
6	Chinese (zh) 永动机		102
7	Spanish (es) Móvil perpetuo		92
8	Hebrew (he) תנועה נצחית		56
9	Hungarian (hu) Örökmozgó		44
10	Portuguese (pt) Moto-contínuo		42

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		1
2	Persian (fa) حرکت دائمی		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Örökmozgó		1
4	Russian (ru) Вечный двигатель		1
5	Thai (th) เครื่องจักรนิรันดร์		1
6	Urdu (ur) دائمی حرکت		1
7	Arabic (ar) حركة أبدية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Daimi mühərrik		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Вечен двигател		0
10	Catalan (ca) Moviment perpetu		0

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

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