Optics

Quality:

Optics - branch of physics concerning light. Article “Optics” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 150 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7339^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Optics” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Optics”, its content was written by 526 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7339^th place).

The article is cited 2883 times in English Wikipedia and cited 23014 times in all languages (7433^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #486 in May 2002
• Global: #407 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12942 in June 2010
• Global: #3406 in May 2008

There are 53 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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Optika		95.2941
2	Norwegian (no) Optikk		95.1454
3	English (en) Optics		91.4066
4	Spanish (es) Óptica		86.3911
5	Vietnamese (vi) Quang học		85.038
6	Russian (ru) Оптика		83.9472
7	Turkish (tr) Optik		68.2985
8	Ukrainian (uk) Оптика		60.9935
9	Chinese (zh) 光学		49.5062
10	Finnish (fi) Optiikka		45.5686

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optics		6 238 004
2	Spanish (es) Óptica		5 328 097
3	German (de) Optik		1 518 765
4	Portuguese (pt) Óptica		1 352 691
5	Russian (ru) Оптика		1 201 186
6	French (fr) Optique		897 617
7	Polish (pl) Optyka		637 726
8	Japanese (ja) 光学		460 231
9	Italian (it) Ottica		449 419
10	Arabic (ar) بصريات		441 891

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) Optics		9 001
2	Spanish (es) Óptica		1 369
3	Russian (ru) Оптика		1 213
4	Chinese (zh) 光学		1 201
5	German (de) Optik		1 132
6	French (fr) Optique		875
7	Japanese (ja) 光学		748
8	Portuguese (pt) Óptica		501
9	Persian (fa) نورشناسی		489
10	Polish (pl) Optyka		414

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optics		526
2	German (de) Optik		342
3	French (fr) Optique		181
4	Spanish (es) Óptica		153
5	Portuguese (pt) Óptica		112
6	Russian (ru) Оптика		106
7	Italian (it) Ottica		104
8	Hebrew (he) אופטיקה		79
9	Dutch (nl) Optica		77
10	Hungarian (hu) Optika		76

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) Optics		2
2	Spanish (es) Óptica		2
3	Italian (it) Ottica		2
4	Basque (eu) Optika		1
5	Norwegian (no) Optikk		1
6	Russian (ru) Оптика		1
7	Serbian (sr) Оптика		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Оптика		1
9	Arabic (ar) بصريات		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Optika		0

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

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