Faster-than-light

Quality:

Faster-than-light - propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. Article “Faster-than-light” in English Wikipedia has 69.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 92 references and 27 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 “Faster-than-light”, its content was written by 743 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1835 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 680 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2369 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #309 in September 2011
• Global: #119 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2568 in September 2011
• Global: #3910 in September 2011

There are 25 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	English (en) Faster-than-light		69.2065
2	French (fr) Vitesse supraluminique		59.1939
3	German (de) Überlichtgeschwindigkeit		52.6493
4	Arabic (ar) أسرع من الضوء		39.9245
5	Italian (it) Velocità superluminale		38.871
6	Spanish (es) Superlumínico		37.2459
7	Turkish (tr) Işık ötesi hız		35.598
8	Chinese (zh) 超光速		34.1106
9	Czech (cs) Nadsvětelná rychlost		28.2883
10	Polish (pl) Prędkość nadświetlna		26.917

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Faster-than-light		8 132 914
2	German (de) Überlichtgeschwindigkeit		1 017 098
3	Japanese (ja) 超光速航法		755 802
4	French (fr) Vitesse supraluminique		653 505
5	Spanish (es) Superlumínico		649 846
6	Italian (it) Velocità superluminale		589 949
7	Chinese (zh) 超光速		438 597
8	Polish (pl) Prędkość nadświetlna		392 683
9	Arabic (ar) أسرع من الضوء		207 932
10	Portuguese (pt) Mais rápido que a luz		193 906

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) Faster-than-light		19 750
2	German (de) Überlichtgeschwindigkeit		1 702
3	Japanese (ja) 超光速航法		1 497
4	Chinese (zh) 超光速		1 472
5	French (fr) Vitesse supraluminique		1 184
6	Italian (it) Velocità superluminale		1 009
7	Polish (pl) Prędkość nadświetlna		652
8	Spanish (es) Superlumínico		637
9	Arabic (ar) أسرع من الضوء		389
10	Danish (da) Overlyshastighed		298

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Faster-than-light		743
2	German (de) Überlichtgeschwindigkeit		239
3	French (fr) Vitesse supraluminique		169
4	Italian (it) Velocità superluminale		99
5	Japanese (ja) 超光速航法		72
6	Spanish (es) Superlumínico		71
7	Chinese (zh) 超光速		62
8	Polish (pl) Prędkość nadświetlna		60
9	Dutch (nl) Sneller dan het licht		46
10	Czech (cs) Nadsvětelná rychlost		38

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	German (de) Überlichtgeschwindigkeit		1
2	Arabic (ar) أسرع من الضوء		0
3	Catalan (ca) Superlumínic		0
4	Czech (cs) Nadsvětelná rychlost		0
5	Danish (da) Overlyshastighed		0
6	English (en) Faster-than-light		0
7	Spanish (es) Superlumínico		0
8	Persian (fa) سریع‌تر از نور		0
9	French (fr) Vitesse supraluminique		0
10	Hindi (hi) प्रकाश से तेज़		0

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

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