Photophone

Photophone - device invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter in 1880. Article “Photophone” in English Wikipedia has 63.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 49 references and 9 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 2025 the article “Photophone” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Photophone”, its content was written by 101 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 321 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1137 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1990 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5974 in May 2002
• Global: #7417 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #39564 in July 2014
• Global: #75259 in July 2014

There are 21 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	English (en) Photophone		63.5942
2	Armenian (hy) Ֆոտոֆոն		42.2017
3	Persian (fa) فوتوفون		41.1371
4	Spanish (es) Fotófono		35.0929
5	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		30.9435
6	Japanese (ja) フォトフォン		30.3827
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fotofon		28.2932
8	Arabic (ar) هاتف ضوئي		27.7391
9	Vietnamese (vi) Photophone		25.5846
10	Catalan (ca) Fotòfon		25.0082

More...

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Photophone		902 582
2	Spanish (es) Fotófono		104 432
3	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		55 533
4	Russian (ru) Фотофон		50 172
5	German (de) Photophon		39 846
6	Italian (it) Fotofono		28 524
7	Dutch (nl) Fotofoon		19 055
8	Portuguese (pt) Photophone		17 143
9	Persian (fa) فوتوفون		8 135
10	Japanese (ja) フォトフォン		8 116

More...

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 "Photophone" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Photophone		1 960
2	Spanish (es) Fotófono		128
3	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		124
4	Japanese (ja) フォトフォン		123
5	Russian (ru) Фотофон		98
6	Italian (it) Fotofono		94
7	German (de) Photophon		61
8	Dutch (nl) Fotofoon		54
9	Portuguese (pt) Photophone		47
10	Persian (fa) فوتوفون		41

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Photophone		101
2	German (de) Photophon		38
3	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		26
4	Italian (it) Fotofono		22
5	Spanish (es) Fotófono		20
6	Russian (ru) Фотофон		20
7	Dutch (nl) Fotofoon		15
8	Hebrew (he) פוטופון		14
9	Portuguese (pt) Photophone		10
10	Ukrainian (uk) Фотофон		10

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Photophone" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Photophone		1
2	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		1
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fotofon		1
4	Arabic (ar) هاتف ضوئي		0
5	Catalan (ca) Fotòfon		0
6	Czech (cs) Fotofon		0
7	German (de) Photophon		0
8	Spanish (es) Fotófono		0
9	Persian (fa) فوتوفون		0
10	Finnish (fi) Valopuhelin		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Photophone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Photophone		1 137
2	Arabic (ar) هاتف ضوئي		178
3	Korean (ko) 광선전화		174
4	Persian (fa) فوتوفون		131
5	Japanese (ja) フォトフォン		127
6	French (fr) Photophone (téléphonie optique)		79
7	Vietnamese (vi) Photophone		43
8	Hebrew (he) פוטופון		28
9	German (de) Photophon		16
10	Spanish (es) Fotófono		16

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هاتف ضوئي
ca	Catalan Fotòfon
cs	Czech Fotofon
de	German Photophon
en	English Photophone
es	Spanish Fotófono
fa	Persian فوتوفون
fi	Finnish Valopuhelin
fr	French Photophone (téléphonie optique)
he	Hebrew פוטופון
hy	Armenian Ֆոտոֆոն
it	Italian Fotofono
ja	Japanese フォトフォン
ko	Korean 광선전화
nl	Dutch Fotofoon
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Fotofon
pt	Portuguese Photophone
ru	Russian Фотофон
simple	Simple English Photophone
uk	Ukrainian Фотофон
vi	Vietnamese Photophone

Best Rank

English: #39564 07.2014

Global: #75259 07.2014

Best Rank

English: #5974 05.2002

Global: #7417 05.2002

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ajit Pawar, Border 2, Sharad Pawar, Killing of Alex Pretti, Ilhan Omar, Sunetra Pawar, Todd Monken, Kristi Noem, Wonder Man (miniseries), Gregory Bovino.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information