Generator (mathematics)

Generator - element of a generating set, a subset of an algebraic structure that allows specifying all elements of the structure. Article “Generator (mathematics)” in English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Generator (mathematics)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Generator (mathematics)”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 90 times in English Wikipedia and cited 421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3716 in August 2003
• Global: #9368 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #315009 in October 2010
• Global: #202069 in November 2008

There are 8 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	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		35.6583
2	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		22.3617
3	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		18.9969
4	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		16.6413
5	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		12.8069
6	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		11.0016
7	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		8.7605
8	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		2.5993

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Generator (mathematics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		381 994
2	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		311 985
3	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		102 321
4	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		12 551
5	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		6 231
6	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		2 640
7	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		727
8	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		66

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Generator (mathematics)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		1 314
2	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		439
3	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		125
4	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		32
5	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		17
6	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		7
7	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		6
8	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		6

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

Language versions of the article "Generator (mathematics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		53
2	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		42
3	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		38
4	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		11
5	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		4
6	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		3
7	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		1
8	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		1

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

Language versions of the article "Generator (mathematics)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		1
2	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		0
3	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		0
4	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		0
5	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		0
6	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		0
7	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		0
8	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Generator (mathematics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Erzeugendensystem		214
2	English (en) Generator (mathematics)		90
3	Italian (it) Insieme di generatori		65
4	Korean (ko) 생성 집합		20
5	Dutch (nl) Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)		14
6	Catalan (ca) Sistema generador		11
7	Finnish (fi) Virittäjä (matematiikka)		4
8	Galician (gl) Xerador (matemáticas)		3

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Sistema generador
de	German Erzeugendensystem
en	English Generator (mathematics)
fi	Finnish Virittäjä (matematiikka)
gl	Galician Xerador (matemáticas)
it	Italian Insieme di generatori
ko	Korean 생성 집합
nl	Dutch Voortbrengen (algebra en lineaire algebra)

Best Rank

English: #315009 10.2010

Global: #202069 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #3716 08.2003

Global: #9368 08.2003

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