William Light

William Light - Surveyor-General of South Australia who designed Adelaide's street plan in 1836. Article “William Light” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 163 references and 28 sections.

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

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

Since the creation of article “William Light”, its content was written by 170 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 274 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 217 times in English Wikipedia and cited 297 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15788 in February 2005
• Global: #38692 in November 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45981 in July 2013
• Global: #85702 in July 2013

There are 9 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	English (en) William Light		100
2	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		32.2382
3	German (de) William Light		22.3198
4	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		21.8256
5	Italian (it) William Light		20.4323
6	Malay (ms) William Light		19.9978
7	Spanish (es) William Light		10.7624
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		4.8456
9	French (fr) William Light		4.0577

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Light		371 995
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		17 947
3	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		10 651
4	Spanish (es) William Light		6 105
5	German (de) William Light		6 021
6	Malay (ms) William Light		4 622
7	French (fr) William Light		4 530
8	Italian (it) William Light		2 129
9	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		753

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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 "William Light" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Light		2 090
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		65
3	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		25
4	Malay (ms) William Light		19
5	French (fr) William Light		14
6	Italian (it) William Light		13
7	Spanish (es) William Light		12
8	German (de) William Light		11
9	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		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 "William Light" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Light		170
2	Italian (it) William Light		19
3	French (fr) William Light		18
4	German (de) William Light		17
5	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		15
6	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		14
7	Spanish (es) William Light		10
8	Malay (ms) William Light		6
9	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		5

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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 "William Light" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Light		1
2	German (de) William Light		0
3	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		0
4	Spanish (es) William Light		0
5	French (fr) William Light		0
6	Italian (it) William Light		0
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		0
8	Malay (ms) William Light		0
9	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		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 "William Light" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) William Light		217
2	Russian (ru) Лайт, Уильям		15
3	German (de) William Light		14
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・ライト		14
5	French (fr) William Light		13
6	Italian (it) William Light		13
7	Spanish (es) William Light		7
8	Malay (ms) William Light		4
9	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German William Light
el	Greek Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ
en	English William Light
es	Spanish William Light
fr	French William Light
it	Italian William Light
ja	Japanese ウィリアム・ライト
ms	Malay William Light
ru	Russian Лайт, Уильям

Best Rank

English: #45981 07.2013

Global: #85702 07.2013

Best Rank

English: #15788 02.2005

Global: #38692 11.2017

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