Finite-state machine

Quality:

Finite-state machine - mathematical model of computation; abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number of states at any given time. Article "Finite-state machine" in English Wikipedia has 66.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 32 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Finite-state machine", its content was written by 419 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1514 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 877 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3706 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #264 in August 2001
• Global: #304 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9951 in October 2014
• Global: #12533 in January 2009

There are 38 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	Indonesian (id) Mesin finite-state		73.2466
2	English (en) Finite-state machine		66.1446
3	Korean (ko) 유한 상태 기계		57.0348
4	Spanish (es) Autómata finito		52.3124
5	French (fr) Automate fini		50.495
6	Chinese (zh) 有限状态机		46.6726
7	Croatian (hr) Konačni automat		43.6879
8	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de estados finita		40.7764
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Konačni automat		40.5516
10	German (de) Endlicher Automat		36.64

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Finite-state machine		8 503 174
2	Russian (ru) Конечный автомат		1 322 237
3	German (de) Endlicher Automat		1 064 079
4	Spanish (es) Autómata finito		826 564
5	Chinese (zh) 有限状态机		639 114
6	Japanese (ja) 有限オートマトン		600 516
7	French (fr) Automate fini		478 102
8	Italian (it) Automa a stati finiti		321 694
9	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de estados finita		295 444
10	Polish (pl) Automat skończony		218 493

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) Finite-state machine		23 481
2	Russian (ru) Конечный автомат		3 702
3	Chinese (zh) 有限状态机		2 479
4	German (de) Endlicher Automat		1 601
5	Japanese (ja) 有限オートマトン		1 454
6	French (fr) Automate fini		804
7	Spanish (es) Autómata finito		791
8	Italian (it) Automa a stati finiti		646
9	Korean (ko) 유한 상태 기계		575
10	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de estados finita		526

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Finite-state machine		419
2	German (de) Endlicher Automat		152
3	French (fr) Automate fini		146
4	Russian (ru) Конечный автомат		103
5	Spanish (es) Autómata finito		71
6	Italian (it) Automa a stati finiti		68
7	Dutch (nl) Eindigetoestandsautomaat		48
8	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de estados finita		40
9	Chinese (zh) 有限状态机		37
10	Hebrew (he) אוטומט סופי		34

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	Finnish (fi) Äärellinen automaatti		1
2	French (fr) Automate fini		1
3	Japanese (ja) 有限オートマトン		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de estados finita		1
5	Russian (ru) Конечный автомат		1
6	Arabic (ar) آلة محدودة الحالات		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Краен автомат		0
8	Catalan (ca) Autòmat finit		0
9	Czech (cs) Konečný automat		0
10	German (de) Endlicher Automat		0

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

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