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Retarder

Quality:

Retarder - Device used to slow railroad cars in classification yards. Article “Retarder” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.2 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Retarder”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 225 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1377 in November 2020
  • Global: #127411 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #19228 in May 2010
  • Global: #111989 in March 2014

There are 9 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Gleisbremse
44.025
2English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
26.9499
3Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
25.789
4French (fr)
Frein de voie
17.2511
5Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
9.8442
6Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
9.7998
7Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
3.9502
8Simple English (simple)
Retarder
3.7556
9Dutch (nl)
Railrem
3.2696
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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 "Retarder" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
125 702
2German (de)
Gleisbremse
117 944
3English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
116 858
4Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
62 460
5Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
13 041
6Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
12 900
7Dutch (nl)
Railrem
3 969
8Simple English (simple)
Retarder
3 503
9French (fr)
Frein de voie
771
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Retarder" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
366
2Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
330
3German (de)
Gleisbremse
269
4Simple English (simple)
Retarder
214
5Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
203
6French (fr)
Frein de voie
40
7Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
34
8Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
28
9Dutch (nl)
Railrem
17
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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 "Retarder" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Gleisbremse
49
2English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
21
3Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
16
4Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
14
5Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
11
6Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
8
7Dutch (nl)
Railrem
5
8Simple English (simple)
Retarder
5
9French (fr)
Frein de voie
2
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Retarder" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
1
2Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
0
3German (de)
Gleisbremse
0
4French (fr)
Frein de voie
0
5Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
0
6Dutch (nl)
Railrem
0
7Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
0
8Simple English (simple)
Retarder
0
9Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
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 "Retarder" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Gleisbremse
62
2Japanese (ja)
カーリターダー
62
3English (en)
Retarder (railroad)
58
4Russian (ru)
Вагонный замедлитель
18
5French (fr)
Frein de voie
8
6Dutch (nl)
Railrem
5
7Simple English (simple)
Retarder
5
8Swedish (sv)
Rangerbroms
4
9Czech (cs)
Kolejová brzda
3
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Kolejová brzda
deGerman
Gleisbremse
enEnglish
Retarder (railroad)
frFrench
Frein de voie
jaJapanese
カーリターダー
nlDutch
Railrem
ruRussian
Вагонный замедлитель
simpleSimple English
Retarder
svSwedish
Rangerbroms

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#19228
05.2010
Global:
#111989
03.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1377
11.2020
Global:
#127411
02.2009

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Retarder from Wikipedia articles about Classification yard, Hump, Chiba Kamotsu Station, Brake shoe and Retarder. Whereas reading the article about Retarder people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Classification yard, George Dowty, Wikipedia article, Hump and Chiba Kamotsu Station.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Retarder

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