Rømer's determination of the speed of light

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Rømer's determination of the speed of light - 1676 experiment which showed that light has finite speed. Article "Rømer's determination of the speed of light" in English Wikipedia has 62.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 50 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Rømer's determination of the speed of light", its content was written by 103 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 197 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #125 in December 2016
• Global: #978 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #80 in December 2016
• Global: #261 in December 2016

There are 11 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Rømer's determination of the speed of light		62.9407
2	Indonesian (id) Penentuan laju cahaya oleh Rømer		54.2101
3	Spanish (es) Determinación de Rømer de la velocidad de la luz		49.9864
4	Russian (ru) Измерение скорости света Рёмером		46.4395
5	Chinese (zh) 羅默測定光速		44.6477
6	French (fr) Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière par Ole Rømer		40.5824
7	Finnish (fi) Rømerin valonnopeuden mittaus		14.3013
8	Persian (fa) اندازه‌گیری سرعت نور توسط رومر		14.1494
9	Arabic (ar) تحديد سرعة الضوء بواسطة رومر		9.7718
10	Korean (ko) 뢰머의 빛의 속력 측정		2.7637

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rømer's determination of the speed of light		1 452 840
2	Russian (ru) Измерение скорости света Рёмером		148 611
3	Chinese (zh) 羅默測定光速		65 424
4	Persian (fa) اندازه‌گیری سرعت نور توسط رومر		31 752
5	French (fr) Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière par Ole Rømer		28 612
6	Spanish (es) Determinación de Rømer de la velocidad de la luz		18 071
7	Korean (ko) 뢰머의 빛의 속력 측정		15 469
8	Arabic (ar) تحديد سرعة الضوء بواسطة رومر		3 956
9	Norwegian (no) Rømers fastsettelse av lysets hastighet		2 305
10	Finnish (fi) Rømerin valonnopeuden mittaus		1 307

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) Rømer's determination of the speed of light		2 168
2	Spanish (es) Determinación de Rømer de la velocidad de la luz		377
3	Russian (ru) Измерение скорости света Рёмером		371
4	Korean (ko) 뢰머의 빛의 속력 측정		355
5	French (fr) Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière par Ole Rømer		282
6	Chinese (zh) 羅默測定光速		165
7	Persian (fa) اندازه‌گیری سرعت نور توسط رومر		129
8	Arabic (ar) تحديد سرعة الضوء بواسطة رومر		101
9	Finnish (fi) Rømerin valonnopeuden mittaus		18
10	Indonesian (id) Penentuan laju cahaya oleh Rømer		15

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rømer's determination of the speed of light		103
2	Russian (ru) Измерение скорости света Рёмером		21
3	French (fr) Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière par Ole Rømer		19
4	Chinese (zh) 羅默測定光速		17
5	Norwegian (no) Rømers fastsettelse av lysets hastighet		10
6	Persian (fa) اندازه‌گیری سرعت نور توسط رومر		9
7	Spanish (es) Determinación de Rømer de la velocidad de la luz		7
8	Korean (ko) 뢰머의 빛의 속력 측정		4
9	Finnish (fi) Rømerin valonnopeuden mittaus		3
10	Indonesian (id) Penentuan laju cahaya oleh Rømer		3

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	Spanish (es) Determinación de Rømer de la velocidad de la luz		1
2	Arabic (ar) تحديد سرعة الضوء بواسطة رومر		0
3	English (en) Rømer's determination of the speed of light		0
4	Persian (fa) اندازه‌گیری سرعت نور توسط رومر		0
5	Finnish (fi) Rømerin valonnopeuden mittaus		0
6	French (fr) Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière par Ole Rømer		0
7	Indonesian (id) Penentuan laju cahaya oleh Rømer		0
8	Korean (ko) 뢰머의 빛의 속력 측정		0
9	Norwegian (no) Rømers fastsettelse av lysets hastighet		0
10	Russian (ru) Измерение скорости света Рёмером		0

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

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