Optical fiber

Quality:

Optical fiber - light-conducting fiber. Article “Optical fiber” in English Wikipedia has 80.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 125 references and 35 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.99 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7078^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 6136^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2688^th most popular in all topics.

The 3261^st most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Optical fiber” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Optical fiber”, its content was written by 1049 registered users of English Wikipedia (6136^th place) and edited by 4386 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3261^st place).

The article is cited 3420 times in English Wikipedia (8941^st place) and cited 15565 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1208 in November 2009
• Global: #337 in April 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1862 in October 2009
• Global: #930 in October 2009

There are 51 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	German (de) Lichtwellenleiter		88.0803
2	English (en) Optical fiber		80.9331
3	Azerbaijani (az) Fiber-optik		80.1416
4	Polish (pl) Światłowód		67.7906
5	Ukrainian (uk) Оптоволокно		60.1376
6	French (fr) Fibre optique		59.1068
7	Chinese (zh) 光導纖維		54.8313
8	Spanish (es) Fibra óptica		51.8741
9	Romanian (ro) Fibră optică		50.4447
10	Turkish (tr) Optik fiber		46.9348

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical fiber		17 800 548
2	Spanish (es) Fibra óptica		10 431 621
3	French (fr) Fibre optique		4 784 322
4	German (de) Lichtwellenleiter		4 655 633
5	Japanese (ja) 光ファイバー		2 845 787
6	Russian (ru) Оптическое волокно		2 810 009
7	Polish (pl) Światłowód		2 441 919
8	Portuguese (pt) Fibra óptica		2 281 450
9	Italian (it) Fibra ottica		2 097 577
10	Chinese (zh) 光導纖維		1 140 744

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) Optical fiber		17 993
2	German (de) Lichtwellenleiter		4 774
3	Russian (ru) Оптическое волокно		3 749
4	French (fr) Fibre optique		3 315
5	Spanish (es) Fibra óptica		3 276
6	Persian (fa) فیبر نوری		2 707
7	Japanese (ja) 光ファイバー		2 417
8	Chinese (zh) 光導纖維		2 009
9	Polish (pl) Światłowód		1 910
10	Italian (it) Fibra ottica		1 673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical fiber		1 049
2	German (de) Lichtwellenleiter		456
3	Spanish (es) Fibra óptica		375
4	French (fr) Fibre optique		370
5	Italian (it) Fibra ottica		230
6	Russian (ru) Оптическое волокно		146
7	Polish (pl) Światłowód		145
8	Portuguese (pt) Fibra óptica		132
9	Persian (fa) فیبر نوری		121
10	Chinese (zh) 光導纖維		107

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	English (en) Optical fiber		2
2	Hebrew (he) סיב אופטי		2
3	Serbian (sr) Оптичко влакно		2
4	Arabic (ar) ليف بصري		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Fiber-optik		1
6	Spanish (es) Fibra óptica		1
7	Basque (eu) Zuntz optiko		1
8	Italian (it) Fibra ottica		1
9	Korean (ko) 광섬유		1
10	Dutch (nl) Optische vezel		1

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

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