Lua

Quality:

Lua - lightweight programming language. This programming language is the 30^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 48^th most popular programming language in Bulgarian Wikipedia. Article “Lua” in Bulgarian Wikipedia has 25.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Bulgarian Wikipedia:

The 48^th most popular in programming languages in Bulgarian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9622^nd most popular in AI.

The 30^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Bulgarian Wikipedia:

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The 8342^nd most editable in Bulgarian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Lua” was edited by 1 authors in Bulgarian Wikipedia (8342^nd place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lua”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Bulgarian Wikipedia and edited by 2617 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9622^nd place).

Lua is on the 48^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Bulgarian Wikipedia and on the 30^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 26 times in Bulgarian Wikipedia and cited 6148 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Bulgarian): #460 in June 2022
• Global: #1357 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Bulgarian): #523 in December 2025
• Global: #9496 in December 2025

There are 49 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, 2026 (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	Hebrew (he) לואה (שפת תכנות)		80.4234
2	Estonian (et) Lua		67.4132
3	Chinese (zh) Lua		65.0021
4	English (en) Lua		62.8924
5	Hungarian (hu) Lua (programozási nyelv)		45.7514
6	Basque (eu) Lua (programazio lengoaia)		44.2644
7	Russian (ru) Lua		43.4856
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		38.2398
9	Japanese (ja) Lua		37.0771
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lua		36.8512

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua		7 532 580
2	Russian (ru) Lua		1 516 074
3	German (de) Lua		992 998
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		717 762
5	French (fr) Lua		620 915
6	Spanish (es) Lua		582 954
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		552 070
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		454 082
9	Polish (pl) Lua		298 982
10	Italian (it) Lua		238 471

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) Lua		21 574
2	Russian (ru) Lua		2 293
3	German (de) Lua		1 613
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		1 486
5	French (fr) Lua		1 322
6	Chinese (zh) Lua		1 315
7	Spanish (es) Lua		872
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		856
9	Polish (pl) Lua		428
10	Italian (it) Lua		425

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua		854
2	Russian (ru) Lua		200
3	French (fr) Lua		194
4	German (de) Lua		176
5	Japanese (ja) Lua		92
6	Spanish (es) Lua		91
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		91
8	Italian (it) Lua		83
9	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		80
10	Polish (pl) Lua		51

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) Lua		3
2	Turkish (tr) Lua		3
3	Bulgarian (bg) Lua		1
4	Danish (da) Lua (programmeringssprog)		1
5	Persian (fa) لوآ		1
6	Finnish (fi) Lua		1
7	French (fr) Lua		1
8	Italian (it) Lua		1
9	Russian (ru) Lua		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lua		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information