Light

Quality:

Light - electromagnetic radiation at or near visible wavelengths. Article “Light” in English Wikipedia has 77.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 56 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4876^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 5650^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1706^th most popular in all topics.

The 1254^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6513^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Light”, its content was written by 1084 registered users of English Wikipedia (5650^th place) and edited by 5977 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1254^th place).

The article is cited 2420 times in English Wikipedia and cited 34627 times in all languages (4870^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #129 in June 2002
• Global: #88 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #810 in March 2010
• Global: #563 in March 2010

There are 55 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) Lys		100
2	English (en) Light		77.4215
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Svjetlost		71.346
4	Esperanto (eo) Lumo		68.8657
5	Hebrew (he) אור		68.4029
6	Finnish (fi) Valo		65.8942
7	German (de) Licht		63.8414
8	Basque (eu) Argi		62.5611
9	Romanian (ro) Lumină		62.4879
10	Galician (gl) Luz		61.9434

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light		21 636 134
2	Spanish (es) Luz		12 978 834
3	German (de) Licht		4 710 705
4	Portuguese (pt) Luz		2 840 181
5	Russian (ru) Свет		2 835 363
6	French (fr) Lumière		2 774 970
7	Arabic (ar) ضوء		2 642 726
8	Japanese (ja) 光		2 564 057
9	Italian (it) Luce		1 990 405
10	Polish (pl) Światło		1 575 532

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) Light		27 631
2	German (de) Licht		4 438
3	Russian (ru) Свет		4 041
4	Spanish (es) Luz		3 850
5	French (fr) Lumière		3 127
6	Japanese (ja) 光		2 671
7	Italian (it) Luce		1 680
8	Chinese (zh) 光		1 649
9	Portuguese (pt) Luz		1 477
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ánh sáng		1 215

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Light		1 084
2	German (de) Licht		499
3	French (fr) Lumière		416
4	Spanish (es) Luz		370
5	Italian (it) Luce		268
6	Hebrew (he) אור		212
7	Dutch (nl) Licht		198
8	Russian (ru) Свет		176
9	Portuguese (pt) Luz		158
10	Turkish (tr) Işık		148

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) Licht		5
2	Czech (cs) Světlo		2
3	Spanish (es) Luz		2
4	French (fr) Lumière		2
5	Dutch (nl) Licht		2
6	Arabic (ar) ضوء		1
7	Greek (el) Φως		1
8	Basque (eu) Argi		1
9	Hebrew (he) אור		1
10	Armenian (hy) Լույս		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information