Northern Lights

Quality:

Northern Lights - 1995 novel by Philip Pullman. This book is the 1053^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 697^th most popular book in Malay Wikipedia. Article “Northern Lights” in Malay Wikipedia has 40.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Malay Wikipedia:

The 697^th most popular in books in Malay Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1053^rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Northern Lights”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 1125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Northern Lights is on the 697^th place in local ranking of books in Malay Wikipedia and on the 1053^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 498 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #4373 in May 2019
• Global: #612 in December 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #35416 in May 2019
• Global: #5790 in January 2008

There are 27 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) Northern Lights (Pullman novel)		49.5224
2	Malay (ms) Northern Lights		40.9029
3	Norwegian (no) Det gylne kompasset		27.0484
4	Chinese (zh) 黃金羅盤 (小說)		24.5509
5	Romanian (ro) Luminile Nordului		23.1966
6	Japanese (ja) 黄金の羅針盤		22.9161
7	Spanish (es) Luces del norte		18.9919
8	Russian (ru) Северное сияние (роман)		18.8182
9	Swedish (sv) Guldkompassen		18.0335
10	Hungarian (hu) Északi fény (regény)		16.4682

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Northern Lights (Pullman novel)		1 780 940
2	Italian (it) La bussola d'oro		817 489
3	Russian (ru) Северное сияние (роман)		593 909
4	Spanish (es) Luces del norte		480 548
5	French (fr) Les Royaumes du Nord		356 301
6	Portuguese (pt) Northern Lights (livro)		314 079
7	Swedish (sv) Guldkompassen		126 229
8	Finnish (fi) Kultainen kompassi		89 031
9	Dutch (nl) Het Noorderlicht (Het gouden kompas)		62 715
10	Danish (da) Det Gyldne Kompas (bog)		60 558

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Northern Lights (Pullman novel)		10 794
2	Russian (ru) Северное сияние (роман)		1 685
3	Italian (it) La bussola d'oro		1 383
4	French (fr) Les Royaumes du Nord		1 197
5	Spanish (es) Luces del norte		904
6	Japanese (ja) 黄金の羅針盤		331
7	Portuguese (pt) Northern Lights (livro)		264
8	Swedish (sv) Guldkompassen		261
9	Chinese (zh) 黃金羅盤 (小說)		210
10	Ukrainian (uk) Північне сяйво (роман)		175

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Northern Lights (Pullman novel)		500
2	Italian (it) La bussola d'oro		95
3	French (fr) Les Royaumes du Nord		74
4	Portuguese (pt) Northern Lights (livro)		57
5	Spanish (es) Luces del norte		55
6	Russian (ru) Северное сияние (роман)		43
7	Dutch (nl) Het Noorderlicht (Het gouden kompas)		35
8	Hungarian (hu) Északi fény (regény)		32
9	Finnish (fi) Kultainen kompassi		25
10	Swedish (sv) Guldkompassen		24

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Northern Lights (Pullman novel)		2
2	Dutch (nl) Het Noorderlicht (Het gouden kompas)		1
3	Urdu (ur) ناردن لائٹس		1
4	Czech (cs) Zlatý kompas		0
5	Danish (da) Det Gyldne Kompas (bog)		0
6	Spanish (es) Luces del norte		0
7	Persian (fa) سپیده شمالی (رمان)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Kultainen kompassi		0
9	French (fr) Les Royaumes du Nord		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Északi fény (regény)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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