Wave equation

Quality:

Wave equation - second-order linear differential equation important in physics. Article “Wave equation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 1 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 “Wave equation”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1071 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1923 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4688 in February 2022
• Global: #2450 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10293 in January 2014
• Global: #8573 in November 2014

There are 40 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Wave equation		63.8329
2	Greek (el) Κυματική εξίσωση		57.2447
3	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		50.1898
4	Norwegian (no) Bølgeligning		47.0134
5	Malay (ms) Persamaan gelombang		46.0022
6	Catalan (ca) Equació d'ona		35.644
7	Hebrew (he) משוואת הגלים		31.441
8	Estonian (et) Lainevõrrand		30.3402
9	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		28.1426
10	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		27.8756

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wave equation		5 328 090
2	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		1 196 054
3	German (de) Wellengleichung		886 317
4	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		689 444
5	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		645 761
6	French (fr) Équation des ondes		581 226
7	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		456 790
8	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		438 073
9	Portuguese (pt) Equação de onda		275 143
10	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		271 005

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) Wave equation		16 252
2	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		2 341
3	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		2 299
4	German (de) Wellengleichung		1 996
5	French (fr) Équation des ondes		1 752
6	Chinese (zh) 波动方程		1 613
7	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		1 474
8	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		1 303
9	Korean (ko) 파동 방정식		1 195
10	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		685

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wave equation		267
2	German (de) Wellengleichung		103
3	Italian (it) Equazione delle onde		77
4	French (fr) Équation des ondes		63
5	Hebrew (he) משוואת הגלים		46
6	Russian (ru) Волновое уравнение		40
7	Spanish (es) Ecuación de onda		38
8	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		36
9	Hungarian (hu) Hullámegyenlet		32
10	Polish (pl) Równanie falowe		29

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) Wave equation		1
2	Japanese (ja) 波動方程式		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Equação de onda		1
4	Serbian (sr) Таласна једначина		1
5	Arabic (ar) معادلة موجية		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Вълново уравнение		0
7	Catalan (ca) Equació d'ona		0
8	Czech (cs) Vlnová rovnice		0
9	Danish (da) Bølgeligningen		0
10	German (de) Wellengleichung		0

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

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