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 79.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 81 references and 26 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In July 2024 the article "History of photography" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "History of photography", its content was written by 495 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1988 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 473 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2430 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4831 in March 2014
• Global: #4007 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10720 in January 2016
• Global: #7295 in September 2014

There are 23 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 August 1, 2024 (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		99.1701
2	Russian (ru) История фотоискусства		85.572
3	English (en) History of photography		79.233
4	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		77.7865
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		75.7039
6	Catalan (ca) Història de la fotografia		73.4115
7	Estonian (et) Fotograafia ajalugu		72.7372
8	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		54.4274
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ عکاسی		54.0164
10	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		50.8099

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of photography		7 440 751
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		4 294 940
3	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		2 063 857
4	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		1 427 342
5	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		1 292 586
6	Portuguese (pt) História da fotografia		1 205 951
7	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		555 373
8	Japanese (ja) 写真史		481 536
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ عکاسی		405 188
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		306 305

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		26 690
2	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		5 887
3	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		4 425
4	Japanese (ja) 写真史		3 290
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		3 085
6	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		3 012
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ عکاسی		1 787
8	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		1 094
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		892
10	Hungarian (hu) A fotográfia története		707

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		495
2	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		329
3	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		282
4	Spanish (es) Historia de la fotografía		203
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		189
6	Portuguese (pt) História da fotografia		69
7	Hungarian (hu) A fotográfia története		65
8	Polish (pl) Historia fotografii		55
9	Swedish (sv) Fotografins historia		45
10	Japanese (ja) 写真史		39

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		6
2	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של הצילום		4
3	German (de) Geschichte und Entwicklung der Fotografie		1
4	French (fr) Histoire de la photographie		1
5	Italian (it) Storia della fotografia		1
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ التصوير الضوئي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Fotoqrafiya tarixi		0
8	Catalan (ca) Història de la fotografia		0
9	Czech (cs) Historie fotografie		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Historio de fotografio		0

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

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