Contre-jour

Contre-jour - photographic technique in which the light source is directly in or near the direction of the subject. Article “Contre-jour” in English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Contre-jour”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 346 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1331 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8022 in April 2003
• Global: #10177 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #117080 in December 2008
• Global: #126177 in December 2008

There are 16 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) Gegenlicht		46.6514
2	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		37.937
3	Latin (la) Contra lumen		32.3427
4	Spanish (es) A contraluz (fotografía)		25.9685
5	Bulgarian (bg) Контражур		25.4633
6	Basque (eu) Kontraargi		24.8529
7	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		20.9902
8	English (en) Contre-jour		19.0437
9	Chinese (zh) 剪影 (攝影)		18.8411
10	Russian (ru) Контровый свет		18.6213

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Contre-jour" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contre-jour		522 240
2	Japanese (ja) 逆光		161 401
3	Russian (ru) Контровый свет		161 291
4	Chinese (zh) 剪影 (攝影)		133 645
5	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		105 506
6	German (de) Gegenlicht		74 968
7	Spanish (es) A contraluz (fotografía)		39 510
8	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		19 387
9	Italian (it) Controluce		18 743
10	Swedish (sv) Motljus		16 310

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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 "Contre-jour" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contre-jour		1 228
2	Russian (ru) Контровый свет		414
3	Japanese (ja) 逆光		251
4	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		190
5	Chinese (zh) 剪影 (攝影)		151
6	Spanish (es) A contraluz (fotografía)		136
7	German (de) Gegenlicht		131
8	Bulgarian (bg) Контражур		96
9	Italian (it) Controluce		67
10	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		42

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contre-jour		68
2	German (de) Gegenlicht		52
3	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		26
4	Chinese (zh) 剪影 (攝影)		21
5	Russian (ru) Контровый свет		18
6	Swedish (sv) Motljus		14
7	Latin (la) Contra lumen		13
8	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		10
9	Hungarian (hu) Contre-jour		9
10	Japanese (ja) 逆光		9

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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 "Contre-jour" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Контражур		0
2	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		0
3	German (de) Gegenlicht		0
4	English (en) Contre-jour		0
5	Spanish (es) A contraluz (fotografía)		0
6	Basque (eu) Kontraargi		0
7	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Contre-jour		0
9	Italian (it) Controluce		0
10	Japanese (ja) 逆光		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 "Contre-jour" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Contre-jour		346
2	Japanese (ja) 逆光		189
3	French (fr) Contre-jour (photographie)		176
4	Chinese (zh) 剪影 (攝影)		170
5	Ukrainian (uk) Контражур		151
6	Czech (cs) Protisvětlo		136
7	Hungarian (hu) Contre-jour		51
8	German (de) Gegenlicht		41
9	Italian (it) Controluce		22
10	Russian (ru) Контровый свет		22

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Контражур
cs	Czech Protisvětlo
de	German Gegenlicht
en	English Contre-jour
es	Spanish A contraluz (fotografía)
eu	Basque Kontraargi
fr	French Contre-jour (photographie)
hu	Hungarian Contre-jour
it	Italian Controluce
ja	Japanese 逆光
ko	Korean 역광
la	Latin Contra lumen
ru	Russian Контровый свет
sv	Swedish Motljus
uk	Ukrainian Контражур
zh	Chinese 剪影 (攝影)

Best Rank

English: #117080 12.2008

Global: #126177 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #8022 04.2003

Global: #10177 02.2004

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