Let there be light

Let there be light - phrase. Article “Let there be light” in English Wikipedia has 17.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.93 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Let there be light”, its content was written by 180 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 349 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in English Wikipedia and cited 319 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10058 in May 2004
• Global: #29406 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56650 in November 2008
• Global: #90423 in November 2008

There are 19 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, 2026 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fiat lux		36.2613
2	Italian (it) Fiat lux		28.434
3	Japanese (ja) 光あれ		23.0644
4	Greek (el) Γενηθήτω φως		22.4969
5	Basque (eu) Izan bedi argia		22.3176
6	Chinese (zh) 要有光		20.4999
7	Persian (fa) بگذار نور باشد		19.8035
8	English (en) Let there be light		17.5858
9	Malay (ms) Jadilah terang		15.9097
10	Galician (gl) Fiat lux		13.6899

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Let there be light" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Let there be light		2 355 210
2	French (fr) Fiat lux		359 315
3	Italian (it) Fiat lux		200 127
4	Spanish (es) Fiat lux		104 925
5	Portuguese (pt) Fiat lux		85 201
6	Chinese (zh) 要有光		69 594
7	Korean (ko) 빛이 있으라		37 681
8	Turkish (tr) Fiat lux		34 671
9	Japanese (ja) 光あれ		33 323
10	Indonesian (id) Jadilah terang		29 947

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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 "Let there be light" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Let there be light		5 270
2	Japanese (ja) 光あれ		1 905
3	Italian (it) Fiat lux		1 169
4	French (fr) Fiat lux		683
5	Chinese (zh) 要有光		381
6	Spanish (es) Fiat lux		195
7	Portuguese (pt) Fiat lux		181
8	Korean (ko) 빛이 있으라		93
9	Persian (fa) بگذار نور باشد		75
10	Turkish (tr) Fiat lux		73

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

Language versions of the article "Let there be light" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Let there be light		180
2	French (fr) Fiat lux		40
3	Italian (it) Fiat lux		39
4	Turkish (tr) Fiat lux		16
5	Galician (gl) Fiat lux		11
6	Indonesian (id) Jadilah terang		10
7	Czech (cs) Fiat lux		9
8	Portuguese (pt) Fiat lux		9
9	Spanish (es) Fiat lux		7
10	Chinese (zh) 要有光		7

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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 "Let there be light" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Izan bedi argia		1
2	Arabic (ar) ليكن نور		0
3	Czech (cs) Fiat lux		0
4	Greek (el) Γενηθήτω φως		0
5	English (en) Let there be light		0
6	Spanish (es) Fiat lux		0
7	Persian (fa) بگذار نور باشد		0
8	French (fr) Fiat lux		0
9	Galician (gl) Fiat lux		0
10	Indonesian (id) Jadilah terang		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 "Let there be light" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Let there be light		114
2	Indonesian (id) Jadilah terang		74
3	Japanese (ja) 光あれ		31
4	French (fr) Fiat lux		25
5	Italian (it) Fiat lux		16
6	Portuguese (pt) Fiat lux		11
7	Spanish (es) Fiat lux		10
8	Turkish (tr) Fiat lux		9
9	Malay (ms) Jadilah terang		7
10	Czech (cs) Fiat lux		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ليكن نور
cs	Czech Fiat lux
el	Greek Γενηθήτω φως
en	English Let there be light
es	Spanish Fiat lux
eu	Basque Izan bedi argia
fa	Persian بگذار نور باشد
fr	French Fiat lux
gl	Galician Fiat lux
id	Indonesian Jadilah terang
it	Italian Fiat lux
ja	Japanese 光あれ
ko	Korean 빛이 있으라
ms	Malay Jadilah terang
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Fiat lux
pt	Portuguese Fiat lux
tr	Turkish Fiat lux
zh	Chinese 要有光
zhminnan	Min Nan Tio̍h ū kng

Best Rank

English: #56650 11.2008

Global: #90423 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #10058 05.2004

Global: #29406 05.2004

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