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Piston

Quality:

Piston - moving component of reciprocating engines that is contained by a cylinder and is made gas-tight by piston rings. Article “Piston” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9220th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Piston”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1408 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8605 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #3040 in November 2010
  • Global: #4580 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1365 in January 2024
  • Global: #16178 in September 2014

There are 50 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
72.0482
2Russian (ru)
Поршень
53.3199
3Ukrainian (uk)
Поршень
50.2769
4English (en)
Piston
49.7882
5German (de)
Kolben (Technik)
46.0254
6Malay (ms)
Omboh
38.3985
7Italian (it)
Pistone (meccanica)
37.093
8Romanian (ro)
Piston
32.3576
9Swedish (sv)
Kolv (maskindel)
30.2906
10Polish (pl)
Tłok
29.6627
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Piston" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Piston
3 669 762
2Spanish (es)
Pistón
2 363 652
3Russian (ru)
Поршень
904 020
4German (de)
Kolben (Technik)
835 902
5French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
707 224
6Portuguese (pt)
Pistão
685 615
7Japanese (ja)
ピストン
641 097
8Italian (it)
Pistone (meccanica)
504 418
9Indonesian (id)
Torak
477 226
10Polish (pl)
Tłok
335 198
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Piston" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Piston
4 494
2Russian (ru)
Поршень
4 210
3Spanish (es)
Pistón
978
4German (de)
Kolben (Technik)
924
5French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
904
6Japanese (ja)
ピストン
730
7Persian (fa)
پیستون
510
8Italian (it)
Pistone (meccanica)
446
9Portuguese (pt)
Pistão
387
10Chinese (zh)
活塞
334
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Piston" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Piston
228
2German (de)
Kolben (Technik)
141
3French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
131
4Italian (it)
Pistone (meccanica)
81
5Spanish (es)
Pistón
62
6Russian (ru)
Поршень
58
7Dutch (nl)
Zuiger
53
8Japanese (ja)
ピストン
46
9Hebrew (he)
בוכנה
36
10Hungarian (hu)
Dugattyú
36
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Piston" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
مكبس (محركات)
3
2English (en)
Piston
1
3French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
1
4Japanese (ja)
ピストン
1
5Romanian (ro)
Piston
1
6Azerbaijani (az)
Porşen
0
7Belarusian (be)
Поршань
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Бутало
0
9Catalan (ca)
Pistó
0
10Czech (cs)
Píst
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Piston" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Piston
1 014
2Italian (it)
Pistone (meccanica)
894
3Japanese (ja)
ピストン
772
4French (fr)
Piston (mécanique)
559
5Russian (ru)
Поршень
555
6Dutch (nl)
Zuiger
441
7German (de)
Kolben (Technik)
388
8Spanish (es)
Pistón
375
9Chinese (zh)
活塞
347
10Portuguese (pt)
Pistão
307
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2026:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مكبس (محركات)
azAzerbaijani
Porşen
beBelarusian
Поршань
bgBulgarian
Бутало
caCatalan
Pistó
csCzech
Píst
daDanish
Stempel (motordel)
deGerman
Kolben (Technik)
enEnglish
Piston
eoEsperanto
Piŝto
esSpanish
Pistón
etEstonian
Kolb
euBasque
Pistoi
faPersian
پیستون
fiFinnish
Mäntä
frFrench
Piston (mécanique)
glGalician
Pistón
heHebrew
בוכנה
hiHindi
पिस्टन
hrCroatian
Klip stroja
huHungarian
Dugattyú
hyArmenian
Մխոց
idIndonesian
Torak
itItalian
Pistone (meccanica)
jaJapanese
ピストン
kaGeorgian
დგუში
kkKazakh
Поршень
koKorean
피스톤
laLatin
Embolus
msMalay
Omboh
nlDutch
Zuiger
noNorwegian
Stempel
plPolish
Tłok
ptPortuguese
Pistão
roRomanian
Piston
ruRussian
Поршень
shSerbo-Croatian
Klip stroja
simpleSimple English
Piston
skSlovak
Piest
srSerbian
Клип (мотор)
svSwedish
Kolv (maskindel)
taTamil
உந்துத் தண்டு
thThai
ลูกสูบ
trTurkish
Piston
ukUkrainian
Поршень
urUrdu
پسٹن
uzUzbek
Porshen
viVietnamese
Piston
zhChinese
活塞
zhminnanMin Nan
Phi-sú-tóng

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1365
01.2024
Global:
#16178
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#3040
11.2010
Global:
#4580
11.2010

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Piston from Wikipedia articles about Internal combustion engine, Cylinder, Reciprocating engine, Steam engine and James Dean. Whereas reading the article about Piston people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Crankshaft, Connecting rod, Reciprocating engine, Cylinder and Piston ring.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Piston
id: Torak
pl: Tłok
tr: Piston
vi: Piston
ro: Piston
zh: 活塞
nl: Zuiger
cs: Píst
simple: Piston
sk: Piest
ca: Pistó
et: Kolb
eo: Piŝto
eu: Pistoi
ms: Omboh
zhminnan: Phi-sú-tóng

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