Lichtbol

Orb - optics. Article “Lichtbol” in Dutch Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Lichtbol”, its content was written by 63 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 777 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #517 in July 2006
• Global: #15880 in June 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #2744 in December 2010
• Global: #38835 in December 2012

There are 16 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) Backscatter (photography)		43.9966
2	Indonesian (id) Orbs		42.9106
3	Russian (ru) Обратное рассеяние в фотографии		36.2241
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tán xạ quả cầu		35.5399
5	Greek (el) Φωτεινές σφαίρες		27.0933
6	Malay (ms) Bebola cahaya (fotograf)		24.3635
7	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		23.7138
8	Spanish (es) Orbs		22.5313
9	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		21.6611
10	Portuguese (pt) Orbes		17.6049

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter (photography)		2 721 141
2	Spanish (es) Orbs		827 059
3	German (de) Geisterfleck		623 764
4	Japanese (ja) 玉響現象		602 425
5	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		360 526
6	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		332 244
7	Dutch (nl) Lichtbol		264 243
8	Polish (pl) Orb (fotografia)		239 606
9	Swedish (sv) Orb (ljusfenomen)		93 436
10	Greek (el) Φωτεινές σφαίρες		13 586

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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 "Lichtbol" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backscatter (photography)		3 136
2	Spanish (es) Orbs		1 444
3	Japanese (ja) 玉響現象		1 146
4	German (de) Geisterfleck		1 097
5	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		851
6	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		798
7	Polish (pl) Orb (fotografia)		439
8	Dutch (nl) Lichtbol		176
9	Swedish (sv) Orb (ljusfenomen)		144
10	Portuguese (pt) Orbes		137

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backscatter (photography)		209
2	German (de) Geisterfleck		66
3	Dutch (nl) Lichtbol		63
4	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		46
5	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		36
6	Spanish (es) Orbs		31
7	Polish (pl) Orb (fotografia)		28
8	Swedish (sv) Orb (ljusfenomen)		17
9	Japanese (ja) 玉響現象		14
10	Greek (el) Φωτεινές σφαίρες		11

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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 "Lichtbol" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Orb (Fotografia)		0
2	German (de) Geisterfleck		0
3	Greek (el) Φωτεινές σφαίρες		0
4	English (en) Backscatter (photography)		0
5	Spanish (es) Orbs		0
6	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		0
7	Indonesian (id) Orbs		0
8	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		0
9	Japanese (ja) 玉響現象		0
10	Malay (ms) Bebola cahaya (fotograf)		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 "Lichtbol" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Backscatter (photography)		640
2	Italian (it) Orb (fenomeno)		28
3	Portuguese (pt) Orbes		22
4	German (de) Geisterfleck		13
5	Japanese (ja) 玉響現象		13
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tán xạ quả cầu		13
7	Spanish (es) Orbs		9
8	Dutch (nl) Lichtbol		9
9	Catalan (ca) Orb (Fotografia)		7
10	French (fr) Orbe (photographie)		6

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Orb (Fotografia)
de	German Geisterfleck
el	Greek Φωτεινές σφαίρες
en	English Backscatter (photography)
es	Spanish Orbs
fr	French Orbe (photographie)
id	Indonesian Orbs
it	Italian Orb (fenomeno)
ja	Japanese 玉響現象
ms	Malay Bebola cahaya (fotograf)
nl	Dutch Lichtbol
pl	Polish Orb (fotografia)
pt	Portuguese Orbes
ru	Russian Обратное рассеяние в фотографии
sv	Swedish Orb (ljusfenomen)
vi	Vietnamese Tán xạ quả cầu

Best Rank

Dutch: #2744 12.2010

Global: #38835 12.2012

Best Rank

Dutch: #517 07.2006

Global: #15880 06.2017

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