Diffraction spike

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Diffraction spike

Quality:

Diffraction spike - lines radiating from bright light sources in photographs. Article “Diffraction spike” in English Wikipedia has 50.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 11 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Diffraction spike”, its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 108 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in English Wikipedia and cited 68 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #43012 in July 2022
  • Global: #94941 in July 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #17963 in January 2015
  • Global: #41126 in January 2015

There are 5 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Diffraction spike
50.6809
2Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
24.6509
3French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
21.3121
4Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
17.9202
5German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
14.017
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Diffraction spike" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Diffraction spike
477 315
2Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
27 830
3German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
22 746
4French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
16 134
5Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
539
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Diffraction spike" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Diffraction spike
3 310
2French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
155
3German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
56
4Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
56
5Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Diffraction spike" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Diffraction spike
69
2German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
20
3Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
11
4French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
6
5Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Diffraction spike" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
0
2English (en)
Diffraction spike
0
3French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
0
4Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
0
5Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Diffraction spike" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Diffraction spike
46
2German (de)
Spike (Beugung)
8
3French (fr)
Aigrettes de diffraction
7
4Russian (ru)
Дифракционные лучи
5
5Lithuanian (lt)
Difrakcinės smailės
2
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Spike (Beugung)
enEnglish
Diffraction spike
frFrench
Aigrettes de diffraction
ltLithuanian
Difrakcinės smailės
ruRussian
Дифракционные лучи

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#17963
01.2015
Global:
#41126
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#43012
07.2022
Global:
#94941
07.2022

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Diffraction spike from Wikipedia articles about Proxima Centauri, James Webb Space Telescope, Cosmology, Lens flare and Artifact. Whereas reading the article about Diffraction spike people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Lens, Entoptic phenomenon, Charge-coupled device, Diffraction and Bahtinov mask.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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