Potentiometer

Quality:

Potentiometer - three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. Article “Potentiometer” in English Wikipedia has 57.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Potentiometer”, its content was written by 386 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 539 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2882 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8934 in September 2004
• Global: #4280 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9391 in October 2013
• Global: #8259 in October 2013

There are 42 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Potensiometer		99.4726
2	English (en) Potentiometer		57.2383
3	German (de) Potentiometer		42.0748
4	Portuguese (pt) Potenciômetro		37.6387
5	Chinese (zh) 電位器		35.5434
6	Dutch (nl) Potentiometer		34.931
7	Estonian (et) Potentsiomeeter		34.5778
8	French (fr) Potentiomètre		34.028
9	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		33.079
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chiết áp		31.8096

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Potentiometer		7 739 503
2	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		3 123 273
3	German (de) Potentiometer		2 013 260
4	French (fr) Potentiomètre		1 032 612
5	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		682 827
6	Japanese (ja) ポテンショメータ		668 270
7	Italian (it) Potenziometro		629 104
8	Portuguese (pt) Potenciômetro		527 185
9	Russian (ru) Потенциометр (резистор)		488 825
10	Chinese (zh) 電位器		386 082

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) Potentiometer		10 843
2	German (de) Potentiometer		1 877
3	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		1 877
4	French (fr) Potentiomètre		1 402
5	Russian (ru) Потенциометр (резистор)		940
6	Chinese (zh) 電位器		844
7	Japanese (ja) ポテンショメータ		818
8	Italian (it) Potenziometro		757
9	Simple English (simple) Potentiometer		486
10	Czech (cs) Potenciometr		483

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Potentiometer		386
2	German (de) Potentiometer		186
3	French (fr) Potentiomètre		115
4	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		68
5	Dutch (nl) Potentiometer		64
6	Italian (it) Potenziometro		57
7	Polish (pl) Potencjometr		34
8	Czech (cs) Potenciometr		29
9	Finnish (fi) Potentiometri		27
10	Hindi (hi) विभवमापी		26

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	Arabic (ar) مقياس الجهد الانزلاقي		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Потенциометър		0
3	Catalan (ca) Potenciòmetre		0
4	Czech (cs) Potenciometr		0
5	Danish (da) Potentiometer		0
6	German (de) Potentiometer		0
7	Greek (el) Ποτενσιόμετρο		0
8	English (en) Potentiometer		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Potenciometro		0
10	Spanish (es) Potenciómetro		0

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

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