Alternating current

Quality:

Alternating current - electric current which periodically reverses direction. Article "Alternating current" in English Wikipedia has 70.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 19 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9938^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3075^th most popular in all topics.

The 7137^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article "Alternating current" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Alternating current", its content was written by 571 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2984 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7137^th place).

The article is cited 2732 times in English Wikipedia and cited 20153 times in all languages (8224^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #979 in August 2003
• Global: #121 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5200 in November 2013
• Global: #1823 in May 2009

There are 52 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	Estonian (et) Vahelduvvool		73.7457
2	Norwegian (no) Vekselstrøm		73.5463
3	English (en) Alternating current		70.3693
4	Turkish (tr) Alternatif akım		57.1608
5	Indonesian (id) Arus bolak-balik		55.1117
6	Croatian (hr) Izmjenična električna struja		54.5917
7	Chinese (zh) 交流電		48.0332
8	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		45.6696
9	Hungarian (hu) Váltakozó áram		44.8865
10	German (de) Wechselstrom		42.9285

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternating current		13 810 034
2	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		8 822 821
3	German (de) Wechselstrom		4 177 324
4	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		3 300 681
5	Japanese (ja) 交流		1 988 281
6	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		1 955 809
7	French (fr) Courant alternatif		1 927 546
8	Portuguese (pt) Corrente alternada		1 741 093
9	Polish (pl) Prąd przemienny		1 417 298
10	Chinese (zh) 交流電		1 131 941

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) Alternating current		23 999
2	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		6 575
3	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		6 386
4	German (de) Wechselstrom		4 142
5	French (fr) Courant alternatif		3 198
6	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		3 036
7	Chinese (zh) 交流電		2 685
8	Japanese (ja) 交流		2 467
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrente alternada		1 914
10	Polish (pl) Prąd przemienny		1 397

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternating current		571
2	German (de) Wechselstrom		342
3	Spanish (es) Corriente alterna		175
4	French (fr) Courant alternatif		150
5	Italian (it) Corrente alternata		134
6	Russian (ru) Переменный ток		106
7	Dutch (nl) Wisselstroom		90
8	Chinese (zh) 交流電		75
9	Czech (cs) Střídavý proud		74
10	Norwegian (no) Vekselstrøm		73

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	German (de) Wechselstrom		3
2	English (en) Alternating current		3
3	Urdu (ur) متبادل رو		2
4	Esperanto (eo) Alterna kurento		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Izmjenična struja		1
6	Thai (th) ไฟฟ้ากระแสสลับ		1
7	Arabic (ar) تيار متناوب		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Dəyişən cərəyan		0
9	Belarusian (be) Пераменны ток		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Променлив ток		0

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

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