Residual-current device

Quality:

Residual-current device - electrical safety device used in household wiring. Article “Residual-current device” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.57 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Residual-current device”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3878^th place) and edited by 1802 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1437 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #113 in April 2015
• Global: #4605 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #46 in December 2014
• Global: #6502 in February 2015

There are 32 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	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		73.9181
2	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		67.9465
3	English (en) Residual-current device		63.246
4	Japanese (ja) 残留電流装置		46.0679
5	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		34.9792
6	Estonian (et) Rikkevoolukaitselüliti		33.7946
7	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		32.2843
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пристрій захисного вимкнення		30.584
9	Persian (fa) کلید محافظ جان		27.2187
10	Chinese (zh) 漏电保护器		26.2491

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		6 779 659
2	English (en) Residual-current device		5 791 349
3	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		2 772 303
4	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		1 982 243
5	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		1 706 405
6	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		1 378 277
7	Dutch (nl) Aardlekschakelaar		943 514
8	Simple English (simple) Residual-current device		696 834
9	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		555 975
10	Swedish (sv) Jordfelsbrytare		523 301

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		12 387
2	English (en) Residual-current device		7 889
3	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		2 699
4	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		1 546
5	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		1 486
6	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		1 248
7	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		1 169
8	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		1 144
9	Dutch (nl) Aardlekschakelaar		1 098
10	Chinese (zh) 漏电保护器		961

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		421
2	English (en) Residual-current device		392
3	Dutch (nl) Aardlekschakelaar		131
4	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		97
5	Italian (it) Interruttore differenziale		87
6	Russian (ru) Устройство дифференциального тока		82
7	Swedish (sv) Jordfelsbrytare		51
8	Polish (pl) Wyłącznik różnicowoprądowy		49
9	Finnish (fi) Vikavirtasuoja		47
10	Hungarian (hu) Áram-védőkapcsoló		45

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	Azerbaijani (az) Sızma cərəyanından mühafizə avtomatı		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Диференциалнотокова защита		0
3	Catalan (ca) Interruptor diferencial		0
4	Czech (cs) Proudový chránič		0
5	Danish (da) Fejlstrømsafbryder		0
6	German (de) Fehlerstrom-Schutzschalter		0
7	English (en) Residual-current device		0
8	Spanish (es) Interruptor diferencial		0
9	Estonian (et) Rikkevoolukaitselüliti		0
10	Basque (eu) Etengailu diferentzial		0

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

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