Lua

Lua - lightweight programming language. This programming language is the 28^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 45^th most popular programming language in Spanish Wikipedia. Article "Lua" in Spanish Wikipedia has 21.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Lua", its content was written by 85 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 2415 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lua is on the 45^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 28^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 128 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 5964 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #4755 in April 2011
• Global: #1342 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #23462 in January 2008
• Global: #17292 in January 2015

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Hebrew (he) לואה (שפת תכנות)		80.7079
2	Estonian (et) Lua		67.4069
3	Chinese (zh) Lua		64.0197
4	English (en) Lua (programming language)		63.2663
5	Hungarian (hu) Lua (programozási nyelv)		45.1912
6	Basque (eu) Lua (programazio lengoaia)		45.0802
7	Russian (ru) Lua		43.1725
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		38.3009
9	Japanese (ja) Lua		38.3002
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lua		36.8512

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		6 341 920
2	Russian (ru) Lua		1 387 877
3	German (de) Lua		920 494
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		665 297
5	French (fr) Lua		579 577
6	Spanish (es) Lua		526 626
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		509 667
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		419 789
9	Polish (pl) Lua		280 802
10	Italian (it) Lua		213 267

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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 "Lua" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		29 137
2	Russian (ru) Lua		6 015
3	German (de) Lua		2 829
4	Chinese (zh) Lua		2 306
5	Spanish (es) Lua		2 181
6	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		2 107
7	Japanese (ja) Lua		2 058
8	French (fr) Lua		1 919
9	Italian (it) Lua		929
10	Polish (pl) Lua		793

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		784
2	Russian (ru) Lua		186
3	French (fr) Lua		177
4	German (de) Lua		165
5	Chinese (zh) Lua		86
6	Spanish (es) Lua		85
7	Japanese (ja) Lua		84
8	Italian (it) Lua		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		73
10	Polish (pl) Lua		49

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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 "Lua" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		9
2	French (fr) Lua		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		2
4	Slovenian (sl) Lua (programski jezik)		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		2
6	Arabic (ar) لوا (لغة برمجة)		1
7	Estonian (et) Lua		1
8	Finnish (fi) Lua		1
9	Hindi (hi) लुआ (प्रोग्रामन भाषा)		1
10	Italian (it) Lua		1

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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 "Lua" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		729
2	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		433
3	Russian (ru) Lua		416
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		409
5	Chinese (zh) Lua		374
6	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		368
7	French (fr) Lua		295
8	Italian (it) Lua		287
9	Polish (pl) Lua		216
10	Persian (fa) لوآ (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		204

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لوا (لغة برمجة)
az	Azerbaijani Lua
be	Belarusian Lua (мова праграмавання)
bg	Bulgarian Lua
ca	Catalan Lua
cs	Czech Lua
da	Danish Lua (programmeringssprog)
de	German Lua
el	Greek Lua
en	English Lua (programming language)
eo	Esperanto Lua
es	Spanish Lua
et	Estonian Lua
eu	Basque Lua (programazio lengoaia)
fa	Persian لوآ (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)
fi	Finnish Lua
fr	French Lua
gl	Galician Lua (linguaxe de programación)
he	Hebrew לואה (שפת תכנות)
hi	Hindi लुआ (प्रोग्रामन भाषा)
hr	Croatian Lua
hu	Hungarian Lua (programozási nyelv)
hy	Armenian Lua (ծրագրավորման լեզու)
id	Indonesian Lua (bahasa pemrograman)
it	Italian Lua
ja	Japanese Lua
ka	Georgian ლუა
ko	Korean 루아 (프로그래밍 언어)
la	Latin Lua (lingua programmandi)
ms	Malay Lua (bahasa pengaturcaraan)
nl	Dutch Lua (programmeertaal)
no	Norwegian Lua
pl	Polish Lua
pt	Portuguese Lua (linguagem de programação)
ro	Romanian Lua (limbaj de programare)
ru	Russian Lua
simple	Simple English Lua
sk	Slovak Lua
sl	Slovenian Lua (programski jezik)
sr	Serbian Lua (programski jezik)
sv	Swedish Lua
ta	Tamil லூவா
th	Thai ภาษาลูอา
tr	Turkish Lua
uk	Ukrainian Lua
ur	Urdu لوا (پروگرامنگ زبان)
vi	Vietnamese Lua
zh	Chinese Lua
zhminnan	Min Nan Lua

Best Rank

Spanish: #23462 01.2008

Global: #17292 01.2015

Best Rank

Spanish: #4755 04.2011

Global: #1342 04.2020

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