Magic lantern

Magic lantern - early type of image projector. Article “Magic lantern” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 147 references and 30 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Magic lantern” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Magic lantern”, its content was written by 250 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1003 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 724 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2518 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3633 in December 2001
• Global: #3778 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47161 in December 2009
• Global: #45634 in December 2009

There are 34 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	English (en) Magic lantern		96.4163
2	Catalan (ca) Llanterna màgica		77.3257
3	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		46.3446
4	Russian (ru) Волшебный фонарь		41.5964
5	Chinese (zh) 幻燈機		38.9724
6	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		36.3751
7	German (de) Laterna magica		32.4974
8	French (fr) Lanterne magique		29.9807
9	Polish (pl) Latarnia czarnoksięska		27.3482
10	Italian (it) Lanterna magica		22.8205

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Magic lantern" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magic lantern		1 893 133
2	German (de) Laterna magica		504 973
3	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		441 891
4	French (fr) Lanterne magique		333 034
5	Russian (ru) Волшебный фонарь		317 836
6	Italian (it) Lanterna magica		229 307
7	Japanese (ja) 幻灯機		228 857
8	Polish (pl) Latarnia czarnoksięska		124 785
9	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		102 504
10	Swedish (sv) Skioptikon		80 315

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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 "Magic lantern" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Magic lantern		6 734
2	German (de) Laterna magica		1 119
3	Russian (ru) Волшебный фонарь		757
4	Japanese (ja) 幻灯機		739
5	French (fr) Lanterne magique		721
6	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		621
7	Italian (it) Lanterna magica		576
8	Polish (pl) Latarnia czarnoksięska		271
9	Chinese (zh) 幻燈機		256
10	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		179

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magic lantern		250
2	German (de) Laterna magica		99
3	French (fr) Lanterne magique		82
4	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		74
5	Russian (ru) Волшебный фонарь		55
6	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		50
7	Italian (it) Lanterna magica		42
8	Catalan (ca) Llanterna màgica		28
9	Danish (da) Laterna magica		28
10	Polish (pl) Latarnia czarnoksięska		27

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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 "Magic lantern" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Magic lantern		4
2	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		2
3	Arabic (ar) فانوس سحري		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Магически фенер		0
5	Catalan (ca) Llanterna màgica		0
6	Czech (cs) Laterna magica		0
7	Danish (da) Laterna magica		0
8	German (de) Laterna magica		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Magia lanterno		0
10	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		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 "Magic lantern" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Magic lantern		724
2	Chinese (zh) 幻燈機		188
3	German (de) Laterna magica		184
4	French (fr) Lanterne magique		171
5	Dutch (nl) Toverlantaarn		167
6	Italian (it) Lanterna magica		121
7	Spanish (es) Linterna mágica		112
8	Catalan (ca) Llanterna màgica		111
9	Russian (ru) Волшебный фонарь		109
10	Japanese (ja) 幻灯機		89

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فانوس سحري
bg	Bulgarian Магически фенер
ca	Catalan Llanterna màgica
cs	Czech Laterna magica
da	Danish Laterna magica
de	German Laterna magica
en	English Magic lantern
eo	Esperanto Magia lanterno
es	Spanish Linterna mágica
et	Estonian Laterna magica
eu	Basque Azti-linterna
fa	Persian فانوس جادو
fi	Finnish Taikalyhty
fr	French Lanterne magique
gl	Galician Lanterna máxica
he	Hebrew פנס קסם
hu	Hungarian Laterna magica
id	Indonesian Lentera ajaib
it	Italian Lanterna magica
ja	Japanese 幻灯機
ko	Korean 환등기
ms	Malay Projektor slaid lentera
nl	Dutch Toverlantaarn
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Laterna magica
no	Norwegian Laterna magica
pl	Polish Latarnia czarnoksięska
pt	Portuguese Lanterna mágica
ro	Romanian Lanternă magică
ru	Russian Волшебный фонарь
sr	Serbian Чаробна лампа (Laterna magica)
sv	Swedish Skioptikon
tr	Turkish Büyülü fener
uk	Ukrainian Чарівний ліхтар
zh	Chinese 幻燈機

Best Rank

English: #47161 12.2009

Global: #45634 12.2009

Best Rank

English: #3633 12.2001

Global: #3778 12.2001

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