The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic - Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. This book is the 4528^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Light Fantastic” in English Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Light Fantastic” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Light Fantastic”, its content was written by 137 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 565 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Light Fantastic is on the 4528^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in English Wikipedia and cited 856 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7796 in May 2005
• Global: #8326 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47597 in March 2008
• Global: #68922 in March 2008

There are 22 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	French (fr) Le Huitième Sortilège		31.9238
2	English (en) The Light Fantastic		27.996
3	Simple English (simple) The Light Fantastic		26.3936
4	Greek (el) Το Φως της Φαντασίας		24.3251
5	Estonian (et) Fantastiline valgus		22.7471
6	Romanian (ro) Lumină fantastică		20.3093
7	Spanish (es) La luz fantástica		16.7525
8	Hungarian (hu) A mágia fénye		12.1647
9	Italian (it) La luce fantastica		11.9096
10	Serbian (sr) Светлост чудесног		9.7689

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Light Fantastic		668 676
2	Russian (ru) Безумная звезда		159 008
3	Polish (pl) Blask fantastyczny		82 312
4	German (de) Das Licht der Phantasie		77 779
5	Spanish (es) La luz fantástica		50 442
6	French (fr) Le Huitième Sortilège		40 702
7	Czech (cs) Lehké fantastično		30 592
8	Italian (it) La luce fantastica		22 575
9	Dutch (nl) Dat wonderbare licht		11 810
10	Bulgarian (bg) Фантастична светлина		9 610

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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 "The Light Fantastic" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Light Fantastic		3 472
2	Russian (ru) Безумная звезда		371
3	German (de) Das Licht der Phantasie		218
4	French (fr) Le Huitième Sortilège		192
5	Spanish (es) La luz fantástica		171
6	Polish (pl) Blask fantastyczny		137
7	Czech (cs) Lehké fantastično		98
8	Ukrainian (uk) Химерне сяйво		86
9	Italian (it) La luce fantastica		81
10	Estonian (et) Fantastiline valgus		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Light Fantastic		137
2	French (fr) Le Huitième Sortilège		58
3	German (de) Das Licht der Phantasie		48
4	Italian (it) La luce fantastica		39
5	Russian (ru) Безумная звезда		38
6	Spanish (es) La luz fantástica		32
7	Polish (pl) Blask fantastyczny		31
8	Norwegian (no) Det fantastiske lyset		29
9	Dutch (nl) Dat wonderbare licht		26
10	Hungarian (hu) A mágia fénye		22

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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 "The Light Fantastic" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Light Fantastic		1
2	Portuguese (pt) A Luz Fantástica		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Фантастична светлина		0
4	Czech (cs) Lehké fantastično		0
5	Danish (da) Det Fantastiske Lys		0
6	German (de) Das Licht der Phantasie		0
7	Greek (el) Το Φως της Φαντασίας		0
8	Spanish (es) La luz fantástica		0
9	Estonian (et) Fantastiline valgus		0
10	Finnish (fi) Valon tanssi		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 "The Light Fantastic" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Light Fantastic		143
2	Russian (ru) Безумная звезда		101
3	Polish (pl) Blask fantastyczny		78
4	French (fr) Le Huitième Sortilège		77
5	Bulgarian (bg) Фантастична светлина		76
6	Czech (cs) Lehké fantastično		71
7	German (de) Das Licht der Phantasie		58
8	Finnish (fi) Valon tanssi		44
9	Italian (it) La luce fantastica		42
10	Ukrainian (uk) Химерне сяйво		29

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Фантастична светлина
cs	Czech Lehké fantastično
da	Danish Det Fantastiske Lys
de	German Das Licht der Phantasie
el	Greek Το Φως της Φαντασίας
en	English The Light Fantastic
es	Spanish La luz fantástica
et	Estonian Fantastiline valgus
fi	Finnish Valon tanssi
fr	French Le Huitième Sortilège
he	Hebrew אור מופלא
hu	Hungarian A mágia fénye
it	Italian La luce fantastica
nl	Dutch Dat wonderbare licht
no	Norwegian Det fantastiske lyset
pl	Polish Blask fantastyczny
pt	Portuguese A Luz Fantástica
ro	Romanian Lumină fantastică
ru	Russian Безумная звезда
simple	Simple English The Light Fantastic
sr	Serbian Светлост чудесног
uk	Ukrainian Химерне сяйво

Best Rank

English: #47597 03.2008

Global: #68922 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #7796 05.2005

Global: #8326 05.2005

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