Slide rule

Quality:

Slide rule - mechanical analog computer. Article “Slide rule” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 17 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 “Slide rule”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8647^th place) and edited by 1866 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1662 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #615 in April 2022
• Global: #240 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #879 in December 2021
• Global: #15711 in September 2010

There are 45 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) Slide rule		68.2899
2	Simple English (simple) Slide rule		65.8909
3	German (de) Rechenschieber		65.465
4	Czech (cs) Logaritmické pravítko		64.111
5	Hebrew (he) סרגל חישוב		52.3224
6	Chinese (zh) 计算尺		50.4162
7	Spanish (es) Regla de cálculo		49.7547
8	Polish (pl) Suwak logarytmiczny		44.7926
9	Dutch (nl) Rekenliniaal		44.7183
10	Hungarian (hu) Logarléc		41.0903

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slide rule		4 570 855
2	Spanish (es) Regla de cálculo		1 273 065
3	German (de) Rechenschieber		1 138 384
4	Russian (ru) Логарифмическая линейка		972 678
5	Japanese (ja) 計算尺		777 517
6	French (fr) Règle à calcul		528 710
7	Italian (it) Regolo calcolatore		407 557
8	Polish (pl) Suwak logarytmiczny		404 404
9	Portuguese (pt) Régua de cálculo		291 081
10	Chinese (zh) 计算尺		158 470

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) Slide rule		11 591
2	German (de) Rechenschieber		2 860
3	Russian (ru) Логарифмическая линейка		2 112
4	Japanese (ja) 計算尺		1 678
5	French (fr) Règle à calcul		1 089
6	Spanish (es) Regla de cálculo		968
7	Italian (it) Regolo calcolatore		897
8	Polish (pl) Suwak logarytmiczny		807
9	Chinese (zh) 计算尺		518
10	Swedish (sv) Räknesticka		378

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Slide rule		511
2	German (de) Rechenschieber		245
3	French (fr) Règle à calcul		137
4	Dutch (nl) Rekenliniaal		97
5	Italian (it) Regolo calcolatore		82
6	Russian (ru) Логарифмическая линейка		82
7	Japanese (ja) 計算尺		74
8	Spanish (es) Regla de cálculo		72
9	Polish (pl) Suwak logarytmiczny		54
10	Hungarian (hu) Logarléc		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	Czech (cs) Logaritmické pravítko		3
2	German (de) Rechenschieber		1
3	French (fr) Règle à calcul		1
4	Russian (ru) Логарифмическая линейка		1
5	Arabic (ar) مسطرة حاسبة		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Loqarifmik xətkeş		0
7	Belarusian (be) Лагарыфмічная лінейка		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Сметачна линия		0
9	Catalan (ca) Regle de càlcul		0
10	Danish (da) Regnestok		0

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

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