Watermill

Quality:

Watermill - structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process. Article “Watermill” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 10 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 “Watermill”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1547 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16425 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #426 in February 2015
• Global: #3247 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2848 in February 2016
• Global: #3656 in September 2025

There are 43 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) Watermill		87.0716
2	Hungarian (hu) Vízimalom		70.056
3	Danish (da) Vandmølle		67.1425
4	Ukrainian (uk) Водяний млин		66.5501
5	Malay (ms) Kincir air		60.2192
6	Spanish (es) Molino hidráulico		59.5443
7	Tamil (ta) நீராலை		53.9858
8	Japanese (ja) 水車小屋		53.8772
9	Turkish (tr) Su değirmeni		52.1738
10	German (de) Wassermühle		50.2666

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Watermill		2 340 317
2	French (fr) Moulin à eau		852 067
3	Spanish (es) Molino hidráulico		532 561
4	German (de) Wassermühle		465 819
5	Italian (it) Mulino ad acqua		388 782
6	Portuguese (pt) Moinho de água		304 396
7	Russian (ru) Водяная мельница		285 054
8	Dutch (nl) Watermolen (door water aangedreven molen)		230 641
9	Polish (pl) Młyn wodny		193 563
10	Japanese (ja) 水車小屋		178 065

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) Watermill		4 841
2	French (fr) Moulin à eau		1 125
3	German (de) Wassermühle		1 075
4	Spanish (es) Molino hidráulico		686
5	Russian (ru) Водяная мельница		595
6	Italian (it) Mulino ad acqua		415
7	Dutch (nl) Watermolen (door water aangedreven molen)		402
8	Japanese (ja) 水車小屋		382
9	Polish (pl) Młyn wodny		335
10	Persian (fa) آسیاب آبی		297

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Watermill		262
2	French (fr) Moulin à eau		182
3	German (de) Wassermühle		125
4	Dutch (nl) Watermolen (door water aangedreven molen)		113
5	Italian (it) Mulino ad acqua		84
6	Danish (da) Vandmølle		71
7	Russian (ru) Водяная мельница		60
8	Spanish (es) Molino hidráulico		54
9	Polish (pl) Młyn wodny		45
10	Hungarian (hu) Vízimalom		43

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) Watermill		2
2	Hungarian (hu) Vízimalom		2
3	Basque (eu) Ur-errota		1
4	Japanese (ja) 水車小屋		1
5	Arabic (ar) طاحونة مائية		0
6	Belarusian (be) Вадзяны млын		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Воденица		0
8	Catalan (ca) Molí hidràulic		0
9	Czech (cs) Vodní mlýn		0
10	Danish (da) Vandmølle		0

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

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