Light cone

Light cone - path taken by a flash of light through spacetime. Article “Light cone” in English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Light cone”, its content was written by 104 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 226 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1483 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #962 in September 2003
• Global: #4223 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18523 in October 2014
• Global: #39575 in October 2014

There are 24 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	German (de) Lichtkegel		59.6931
2	Polish (pl) Stożek świetlny		48.1866
3	Basque (eu) Argi-kono		40.737
4	Chinese (zh) 光锥		25.0573
5	English (en) Light cone		24.2126
6	French (fr) Cône de lumière		22.0744
7	Indonesian (id) Kerucut cahaya		20.1475
8	Swedish (sv) Ljuskon		18.2962
9	Greek (el) Κώνος φωτός		18.0134
10	Arabic (ar) مخروط ضوئي		12.3963

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Light cone" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light cone		1 368 568
2	Russian (ru) Световой конус		184 998
3	Spanish (es) Cono de luz		152 185
4	German (de) Lichtkegel		138 690
5	Chinese (zh) 光锥		128 267
6	French (fr) Cône de lumière		89 627
7	Japanese (ja) 光円錐		75 680
8	Polish (pl) Stożek świetlny		43 691
9	Portuguese (pt) Cone de luz		42 195
10	Persian (fa) مخروط نوری		21 864

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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 "Light cone" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light cone		4 067
2	Japanese (ja) 光円錐		879
3	Chinese (zh) 光锥		879
4	German (de) Lichtkegel		513
5	Russian (ru) Световой конус		498
6	French (fr) Cône de lumière		355
7	Spanish (es) Cono de luz		315
8	Polish (pl) Stożek świetlny		162
9	Korean (ko) 광추		129
10	Portuguese (pt) Cone de luz		123

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

Language versions of the article "Light cone" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Light cone		104
2	French (fr) Cône de lumière		39
3	German (de) Lichtkegel		38
4	Russian (ru) Световой конус		34
5	Dutch (nl) Lichtkegel		19
6	Spanish (es) Cono de luz		14
7	Chinese (zh) 光锥		13
8	Persian (fa) مخروط نوری		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий конус		12
10	Arabic (ar) مخروط ضوئي		11

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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 "Light cone" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Světelný kužel		2
2	Chinese (zh) 光锥		1
3	Arabic (ar) مخروط ضوئي		0
4	Catalan (ca) Con de llum		0
5	German (de) Lichtkegel		0
6	Greek (el) Κώνος φωτός		0
7	English (en) Light cone		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Lumkonuso		0
9	Spanish (es) Cono de luz		0
10	Basque (eu) Argi-kono		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 "Light cone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Light cone		226
2	French (fr) Cône de lumière		143
3	Chinese (zh) 光锥		121
4	Arabic (ar) مخروط ضوئي		117
5	Polish (pl) Stożek świetlny		109
6	Persian (fa) مخروط نوری		104
7	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий конус		97
8	German (de) Lichtkegel		94
9	Korean (ko) 광추		87
10	Japanese (ja) 光円錐		69

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مخروط ضوئي
ca	Catalan Con de llum
cs	Czech Světelný kužel
de	German Lichtkegel
el	Greek Κώνος φωτός
en	English Light cone
eo	Esperanto Lumkonuso
es	Spanish Cono de luz
eu	Basque Argi-kono
fa	Persian مخروط نوری
fr	French Cône de lumière
he	Hebrew קונוס האור
hy	Armenian Լուսային կոն
id	Indonesian Kerucut cahaya
ja	Japanese 光円錐
ko	Korean 광추
nl	Dutch Lichtkegel
pl	Polish Stożek świetlny
pt	Portuguese Cone de luz
ru	Russian Световой конус
sv	Swedish Ljuskon
uk	Ukrainian Світловий конус
vi	Vietnamese Nón ánh sáng
zh	Chinese 光锥

Best Rank

English: #18523 10.2014

Global: #39575 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #962 09.2003

Global: #4223 09.2003

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