Thomson's lamp

Thomson's lamp - philosophical puzzle that is a variation on Zeno's paradoxes. Article “Thomson's lamp” in English Wikipedia has 21 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.1 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Thomson's lamp”, its content was written by 67 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in English Wikipedia and cited 45 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #53054 in January 2014
• Global: #75503 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #261732 in December 2015
• Global: #244292 in May 2011

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 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	Arabic (ar) مصباح تومسون		22.0134
2	English (en) Thomson's lamp		20.952
3	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		20.6781
4	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		20.4967
5	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		19.4502
6	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		16.985
7	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		12.9436
8	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		11.0321
9	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		9.046
10	Ukrainian (uk) Лампа Томсона		8.9708

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Thomson's lamp" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomson's lamp		310 814
2	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		129 435
3	Chinese (zh) 湯姆生的燈悖論		15 781
4	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		8 562
5	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		4 171
6	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		3 657
7	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		2 531
8	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		912
9	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		332
10	Ukrainian (uk) Лампа Томсона		49

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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 "Thomson's lamp" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomson's lamp		1 333
2	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		289
3	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		276
4	Chinese (zh) 湯姆生的燈悖論		125
5	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		53
6	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		30
7	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		28
8	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		19
9	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		13
10	Ukrainian (uk) Лампа Томсона		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thomson's lamp		67
2	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		7
3	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		6
4	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		6
5	Chinese (zh) 湯姆生的燈悖論		5
6	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		4
7	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		3
8	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		2
9	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		2
10	Arabic (ar) مصباح تومسون		1

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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 "Thomson's lamp" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مصباح تومسون		0
2	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		0
3	English (en) Thomson's lamp		0
4	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		0
5	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		0
6	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		0
7	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		0
8	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		0
9	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Лампа Томсона		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 "Thomson's lamp" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thomson's lamp		15
2	French (fr) Lampe de Thomson		7
3	Spanish (es) Lámpara de Thomson		6
4	German (de) Thomson-Lampe		5
5	Japanese (ja) トムソンのランプ		5
6	Chinese (zh) 湯姆生的燈悖論		3
7	Arabic (ar) مصباح تومسون		1
8	Hebrew (he) המנורה של תומסון		1
9	Italian (it) Lampada di Thomson		1
10	Thai (th) โคมไฟของทอมสัน		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مصباح تومسون
de	German Thomson-Lampe
en	English Thomson's lamp
es	Spanish Lámpara de Thomson
fr	French Lampe de Thomson
he	Hebrew המנורה של תומסון
it	Italian Lampada di Thomson
ja	Japanese トムソンのランプ
th	Thai โคมไฟของทอมสัน
uk	Ukrainian Лампа Томсона
zh	Chinese 湯姆生的燈悖論

Best Rank

English: #261732 12.2015

Global: #244292 05.2011

Best Rank

English: #53054 01.2014

Global: #75503 10.2016

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