Water lantern

Water lantern - type of lamp that floats. Article “Water lantern” in English Wikipedia has 36.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.92 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Water lantern”, its content was written by 54 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in English Wikipedia and cited 312 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73102 in January 2020
• Global: #117388 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #292357 in August 2008
• Global: #73461 in August 2015

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 水燈		88.5747
2	English (en) Water lantern		36.4811
3	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		32.5155
4	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		29.1118
5	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		28.8401
6	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		12.1403
7	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		6.9222

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Water lantern" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		641 943
2	English (en) Water lantern		285 615
3	Chinese (zh) 水燈		134 336
4	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		3 671
5	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		1 246
6	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		687
7	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		325

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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 "Water lantern" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		1 649
2	English (en) Water lantern		1 271
3	Chinese (zh) 水燈		684
4	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		57
5	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		12
6	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		11
7	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water lantern		54
2	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		53
3	Chinese (zh) 水燈		10
4	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		7
5	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		4
6	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		3
7	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		2

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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 "Water lantern" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		3
2	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		0
3	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		0
4	English (en) Water lantern		0
5	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		0
6	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		0
7	Chinese (zh) 水燈		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 "Water lantern" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 灯籠流し		226
2	Chinese (zh) 水燈		47
3	English (en) Water lantern		31
4	French (fr) Lanterne flottante		4
5	Dutch (nl) Waterlampion		2
6	Arabic (ar) تورو ناغاشي		1
7	Greek (el) Υδάτινο φανάρι		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تورو ناغاشي
el	Greek Υδάτινο φανάρι
en	English Water lantern
fr	French Lanterne flottante
ja	Japanese 灯籠流し
nl	Dutch Waterlampion
zh	Chinese 水燈

Best Rank

English: #292357 08.2008

Global: #73461 08.2015

Best Rank

English: #73102 01.2020

Global: #117388 05.2025

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