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Specular highlight

Quality:

Specular highlight - bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated. Article “Specular highlight” in English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.42 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Specular highlight”, its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 91 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 51 times in English Wikipedia and cited 125 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #25587 in June 2015
  • Global: #94034 in June 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #151477 in November 2009
  • Global: #221480 in November 2009

There are 7 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
30.2968
2Italian (it)
Specular highlight
25.0705
3English (en)
Specular highlight
25.0664
4Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
18.4276
5Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
3.5777
6French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
2.782
7Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
0.7189
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Specular highlight" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Specular highlight
756 467
2Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
66 645
3French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
22 517
4Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
5 169
5Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
3 579
6Italian (it)
Specular highlight
2 690
7Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
348
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Specular highlight" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Specular highlight
1 853
2Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
112
3French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
57
4Italian (it)
Specular highlight
23
5Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
18
6Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
11
7Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Specular highlight" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Specular highlight
58
2French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
12
3Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
9
4Italian (it)
Specular highlight
4
5Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
4
6Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
2
7Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Specular highlight" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Specular highlight
0
2Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
0
3French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
0
4Italian (it)
Specular highlight
0
5Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
0
6Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
0
7Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Specular highlight" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Specular highlight
51
2Japanese (ja)
鏡面ハイライト
40
3Turkish (tr)
Aynasal aydınlatma
10
4French (fr)
Lumière spéculaire
9
5Italian (it)
Specular highlight
6
6Thai (th)
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
5
7Spanish (es)
Resaltado especular
4
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Specular highlight
esSpanish
Resaltado especular
frFrench
Lumière spéculaire
itItalian
Specular highlight
jaJapanese
鏡面ハイライト
thThai
ส่วนสว่างจัดจ้า
trTurkish
Aynasal aydınlatma

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#151477
11.2009
Global:
#221480
11.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#25587
06.2015
Global:
#94034
06.2015

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Specular highlight from Wikipedia articles about List of common shading algorithms, Bidirectional reflectance distribution function, Phong shading, Physically based rendering and Lambertian reflectance. Whereas reading the article about Specular highlight people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Phong reflection model, Schlicks approximation, Specular reflection, List of common shading algorithms and Fresnel equations.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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