Light Railway

Light railway - railway built at lower costs and to lower standards. Article “Light Railway” in German Wikipedia has 32.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Light Railway” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Light Railway”, its content was written by 20 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 252 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2661 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #29166 in July 2013
• Global: #6294 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #611139 in July 2013
• Global: #167610 in October 2008

There are 9 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	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		34.3743
2	German (de) Light Railway		32.7785
3	English (en) Light railway		32.1214
4	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		31.9023
5	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		27.2402
6	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		22.7895
7	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		16.4877
8	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		11.4162
9	Danish (da) Nærbane		1.402

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Light Railway" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		723 935
2	English (en) Light railway		156 173
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		43 481
4	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		35 517
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		34 406
6	Danish (da) Nærbane		7 115
7	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		6 855
8	German (de) Light Railway		5 179
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		362

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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 "Light Railway" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		2 959
2	English (en) Light railway		893
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		287
4	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		208
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		87
6	German (de) Light Railway		26
7	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		18
8	Danish (da) Nærbane		8
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		88
2	English (en) Light railway		59
3	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		44
4	German (de) Light Railway		20
5	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		17
6	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		14
7	Danish (da) Nærbane		7
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		2
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		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 "Light Railway" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Light Railway		2
2	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		1
3	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		0
4	Danish (da) Nærbane		0
5	English (en) Light railway		0
6	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		0
7	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		0
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		0
9	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		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 "Light Railway" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		1 187
2	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		638
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		399
4	English (en) Light railway		196
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		119
6	Danish (da) Nærbane		97
7	German (de) Light Railway		12
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		9
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سكة حديد خفيفة
da	Danish Nærbane
de	German Light Railway
en	English Light railway
fr	French Chemin de fer secondaire
ja	Japanese 軽便鉄道
nl	Dutch Lokaalspoorweg
sv	Swedish Lokalbana
zh	Chinese 輕便鐵路

Best Rank

German: #611139 07.2013

Global: #167610 10.2008

Best Rank

German: #29166 07.2013

Global: #6294 09.2003

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