Ray (optics)

Ray - in geometrical optics: an idealized model of light; a line that is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the actual light, and that points in the direction of energy flow. Article “Ray (optics)” in English Wikipedia has 46.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 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.

Since the creation of article “Ray (optics)”, its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 439 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 270 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1584 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4731 in March 2004
• Global: #5822 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #73036 in June 2013
• Global: #81289 in June 2013

There are 24 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) Ray (optics)		46.8137
2	Catalan (ca) Raig lluminós		43.814
3	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		29.6446
4	Chinese (zh) 射线		23.4092
5	Persian (fa) پرتو (نورشناسی)		20.7314
6	Korean (ko) 광선		19.1178
7	Arabic (ar) شعاع (بصريات)		15.0622
8	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий промінь		14.2928
9	Belarusian (be) Светлавы прамень		8.6231
10	Russian (ru) Световой луч		8.1784

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ray (optics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray (optics)		1 760 546
2	Spanish (es) Rayo luminoso		304 461
3	Russian (ru) Световой луч		210 420
4	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		177 563
5	Japanese (ja) 光線		139 968
6	Indonesian (id) Sinar		112 339
7	Chinese (zh) 射线		92 357
8	Polish (pl) Promień świetlny		88 584
9	Persian (fa) پرتو (نورشناسی)		78 159
10	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий промінь		69 529

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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 "Ray (optics)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray (optics)		3 633
2	Chinese (zh) 射线		311
3	Spanish (es) Rayo luminoso		295
4	Russian (ru) Световой луч		294
5	Japanese (ja) 光線		219
6	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		211
7	Persian (fa) پرتو (نورشناسی)		132
8	Indonesian (id) Sinar		93
9	Portuguese (pt) Raio luminoso		68
10	Kazakh (kk) Сәуле		62

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray (optics)		133
2	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		49
3	Russian (ru) Световой луч		39
4	Vietnamese (vi) Quang tuyến		25
5	Dutch (nl) Lichtstraal		21
6	Esperanto (eo) Radio (fiziko)		20
7	Italian (it) Raggio luminoso		19
8	Chinese (zh) 射线		19
9	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий промінь		17
10	Spanish (es) Rayo luminoso		16

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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 "Ray (optics)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий промінь		1
2	Arabic (ar) شعاع (بصريات)		0
3	Belarusian (be) Светлавы прамень		0
4	Catalan (ca) Raig lluminós		0
5	English (en) Ray (optics)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Radio (fiziko)		0
7	Spanish (es) Rayo luminoso		0
8	Persian (fa) پرتو (نورشناسی)		0
9	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		0
10	Indonesian (id) Sinar		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 "Ray (optics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ray (optics)		270
2	Chinese (zh) 射线		205
3	French (fr) Rayon lumineux		192
4	Japanese (ja) 光線		108
5	Kazakh (kk) Сәуле		100
6	Ukrainian (uk) Світловий промінь		98
7	Russian (ru) Световой луч		77
8	Indonesian (id) Sinar		75
9	Spanish (es) Rayo luminoso		61
10	Slovenian (sl) Žarek		58

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شعاع (بصريات)
be	Belarusian Светлавы прамень
ca	Catalan Raig lluminós
en	English Ray (optics)
eo	Esperanto Radio (fiziko)
es	Spanish Rayo luminoso
fa	Persian پرتو (نورشناسی)
fr	French Rayon lumineux
id	Indonesian Sinar
it	Italian Raggio luminoso
ja	Japanese 光線
kk	Kazakh Сәуле
ko	Korean 광선
nl	Dutch Lichtstraal
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Stråle i fysikk
pl	Polish Promień świetlny
pt	Portuguese Raio luminoso
ru	Russian Световой луч
sl	Slovenian Žarek
sv	Swedish Stråle (optik)
uk	Ukrainian Світловий промінь
ur	Urdu شعاع (بصریات)
vi	Vietnamese Quang tuyến
zh	Chinese 射线

Best Rank

English: #73036 06.2013

Global: #81289 06.2013

Best Rank

English: #4731 03.2004

Global: #5822 02.2002

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