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Light pollution

Quality:

Light pollution - anthropogenic light in the night environment, caused by excess or misdirected lighting. Article "Light pollution" in English Wikipedia has 77.6 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 159 references and 39 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 8996th most popular in AI.

In October 2023 the article "Light pollution" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Light pollution", its content was written by 714 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8996th place).

The article is cited 1338 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8969 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2332 in October 2003
  • Global: #2783 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #6875 in December 2014
  • Global: #10038 in May 2015

There are 46 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 November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
100
2Malay (ms)
Pencemaran cahaya
97.0179
3French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
96.1243
4Arabic (ar)
تلوث ضوئي
85.9967
5Hindi (hi)
प्रकाश प्रदूषण
83.8667
6English (en)
Light pollution
77.5607
7Armenian (hy)
Լույսի աղտոտում
74.5311
8Ukrainian (uk)
Світлове забруднення
70.9089
9Chinese (zh)
光害
62.0867
10Hebrew (he)
זיהום אור
61.584
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Light pollution" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Light pollution
4 455 060
2Spanish (es)
Contaminación lumínica
1 575 802
3German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
617 749
4French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
500 059
5Chinese (zh)
光害
336 708
6Portuguese (pt)
Poluição luminosa
323 771
7Japanese (ja)
光害
300 193
8Italian (it)
Inquinamento luminoso
260 018
9Russian (ru)
Световое загрязнение
246 649
10Hindi (hi)
प्रकाश प्रदूषण
160 019
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in October 2023

The most popular language versions of the article "Light pollution" in October 2023
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Light pollution
19 153
2Spanish (es)
Contaminación lumínica
4 368
3German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
2 832
4Arabic (ar)
تلوث ضوئي
2 003
5Russian (ru)
Световое загрязнение
1 787
6French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
1 614
7Vietnamese (vi)
Ô nhiễm ánh sáng
1 382
8Chinese (zh)
光害
1 311
9Italian (it)
Inquinamento luminoso
1 264
10Turkish (tr)
Işık kirliliği
1 035
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Light pollution" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Light pollution
714
2German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
285
3French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
252
4Spanish (es)
Contaminación lumínica
112
5Italian (it)
Inquinamento luminoso
102
6Dutch (nl)
Lichtvervuiling
95
7Hebrew (he)
זיהום אור
87
8Chinese (zh)
光害
61
9Japanese (ja)
光害
59
10Czech (cs)
Světelné znečištění
56
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in October 2023

Language versions of the article "Light pollution" with the highest AI in October 2023
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Light pollution
6
2Spanish (es)
Contaminación lumínica
3
3French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
3
4Slovak (sk)
Svetelné znečistenie
2
5Czech (cs)
Světelné znečištění
1
6German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
1
7Korean (ko)
광공해
1
8Dutch (nl)
Lichtvervuiling
1
9Polish (pl)
Zanieczyszczenie świetlne
1
10Russian (ru)
Световое загрязнение
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Light pollution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Swedish (sv)
Ljusförorening
2 214
2English (en)
Light pollution
1 338
3Italian (it)
Inquinamento luminoso
1 098
4French (fr)
Pollution lumineuse
752
5Japanese (ja)
光害
555
6Russian (ru)
Световое загрязнение
359
7German (de)
Lichtverschmutzung
305
8Arabic (ar)
تلوث ضوئي
283
9Chinese (zh)
光害
275
10Portuguese (pt)
Poluição luminosa
170
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تلوث ضوئي
bgBulgarian
Светлинно замърсяване
caCatalan
Contaminació lumínica
csCzech
Světelné znečištění
daDanish
Lysforurening
deGerman
Lichtverschmutzung
elGreek
Φωτορύπανση
enEnglish
Light pollution
eoEsperanto
Luma poluo
esSpanish
Contaminación lumínica
etEstonian
Valgusreostus
euBasque
Argi kutsadura
faPersian
آلودگی نوری
fiFinnish
Valosaaste
frFrench
Pollution lumineuse
glGalician
Contaminación luminosa
heHebrew
זיהום אור
hiHindi
प्रकाश प्रदूषण
hrCroatian
Svjetlosno onečišćenje
huHungarian
Fényszennyezés
hyArmenian
Լույսի աղտոտում
idIndonesian
Polusi cahaya
itItalian
Inquinamento luminoso
jaJapanese
光害
kkKazakh
Сәулелік ластану
koKorean
광공해
ltLithuanian
Šviesos tarša
msMalay
Pencemaran cahaya
nlDutch
Lichtvervuiling
noNorwegian
Lysforurensning
plPolish
Zanieczyszczenie świetlne
ptPortuguese
Poluição luminosa
roRomanian
Poluare luminoasă
ruRussian
Световое загрязнение
shSerbo-Croatian
Svjetlosno onečišćenje
simpleSimple English
Light pollution
skSlovak
Svetelné znečistenie
slSlovenian
Svetlobno onesnaženje
srSerbian
Светлосно загађење
svSwedish
Ljusförorening
thThai
มลภาวะทางแสง
trTurkish
Işık kirliliği
ukUkrainian
Світлове забруднення
viVietnamese
Ô nhiễm ánh sáng
zhChinese
光害
zhminnanMin Nan
Kng-hāi

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6875
12.2014
Global:
#10038
05.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2332
10.2003
Global:
#2783
03.2008

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Light pollution from Wikipedia articles about Pollution, Milky Way, Skyglow, Andromeda and Eye black. Whereas reading the article about Light pollution people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Skyglow, Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, Dark-sky preserve, Sodium-vapor lamp and International Dark-Sky Association.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 光害
ja: 光害
zhminnan: Kng-hāi

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