History of photography

Quality:

History of photography - the invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images. Article “History of photography” in English Wikipedia has 83.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 26 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “History of photography” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of photography”, its content was written by 512 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2058 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 491 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2524 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4834 in March 2014
• Global: #4009 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10715 in January 2016
• Global: #7281 in September 2014

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	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הצילום		100
2	Russian (ru) История фотоискусства		85.4631
3	English (en) History of photography		83.2938
4	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		77.4647
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		75.2875
6	Romanian (ro) Istoria fotografiei		74.0653
7	Catalan (ca) Història de la fotografia		73.3431
8	Estonian (et) Fotograafia ajalugu		72.7353
9	Armenian (hy) Լուսանկարչության պատմություն		68.5396
10	Swedish (sv) Fotografins historia		64.4918

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of photography		7 783 956
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		4 364 303
3	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		2 126 521
4	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		1 481 864
5	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		1 333 177
6	Portuguese (pt) História da fotografia		1 215 635
7	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		572 745
8	Japanese (ja) 写真史		507 040
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ عکاسی		426 731
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		317 037

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) History of photography		31 408
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		4 939
3	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		3 437
4	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		2 772
5	Japanese (ja) 写真史		2 429
6	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		1 559
7	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		1 266
8	Hungarian (hu) A fotográfia története		732
9	Czech (cs) Historie fotografie		599
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		547

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of photography		512
2	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		335
3	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		288
4	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		206
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		189
6	Portuguese (pt) História da fotografia		69
7	Hungarian (hu) A fotográfia története		68
8	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		56
9	Swedish (sv) Fotografins historia		47
10	Japanese (ja) 写真史		40

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) History of photography		3
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		2
3	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		2
4	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הצילום		2
5	Russian (ru) История фотоискусства		2
6	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		1
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ عکاسی		1
8	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Fotoqrafiya tarixi		0
10	Catalan (ca) Història de la fotografia		0

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

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