Starter

Fluorescent lamp starter - type of preheat starter used with a fluorescent lamp. Article “Starter” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 15.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Starter”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 210 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 82 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #12939 in June 2008
• Global: #57297 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #91462 in January 2013
• Global: #117338 in December 2009

There are 13 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	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		49.0003
2	Chinese (zh) 启辉器		35.0251
3	English (en) Glow switch starter		16.7036
4	Spanish (es) Cebador de lampara fluorescente		16.1754
5	Portuguese (pt) Starter		15.8707
6	Arabic (ar) مفتاح مبدئ التوهج		8.8218
7	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		8.2541
8	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		7.768
9	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		5.3077
10	Norwegian (no) Starter		2.5498

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		1 177 288
2	Chinese (zh) 启辉器		188 016
3	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		121 913
4	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		121 762
5	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		118 885
6	Dutch (nl) Tl-starter		61 346
7	English (en) Glow switch starter		60 559
8	Portuguese (pt) Starter		49 524
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tắc te		47 751
10	Spanish (es) Cebador de lampara fluorescente		2 801

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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 "Starter" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		1 255
2	Chinese (zh) 启辉器		687
3	English (en) Glow switch starter		471
4	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		127
5	Spanish (es) Cebador de lampara fluorescente		113
6	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		94
7	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		89
8	Portuguese (pt) Starter		42
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tắc te		42
10	Dutch (nl) Tl-starter		37

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		43
2	Chinese (zh) 启辉器		31
3	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		30
4	Dutch (nl) Tl-starter		23
5	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		21
6	English (en) Glow switch starter		17
7	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		16
8	Portuguese (pt) Starter		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) Стартер (світлотехніка)		7
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tắc te		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 "Starter" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مفتاح مبدئ التوهج		3
2	English (en) Glow switch starter		0
3	Spanish (es) Cebador de lampara fluorescente		0
4	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		0
5	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		0
6	Dutch (nl) Tl-starter		0
7	Norwegian (no) Starter		0
8	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Starter		0
10	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		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 "Starter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 点灯管		26
2	Dutch (nl) Tl-starter		12
3	Chinese (zh) 启辉器		12
4	Polish (pl) Zapłonnik (elektronika)		8
5	English (en) Glow switch starter		5
6	Portuguese (pt) Starter		5
7	Norwegian (no) Starter		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Стартер (світлотехніка)		4
9	Italian (it) Starter (elettrotecnica)		2
10	Swedish (sv) Glimtändare		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مفتاح مبدئ التوهج
en	English Glow switch starter
es	Spanish Cebador de lampara fluorescente
it	Italian Starter (elettrotecnica)
ja	Japanese 点灯管
nl	Dutch Tl-starter
no	Norwegian Starter
pl	Polish Zapłonnik (elektronika)
pt	Portuguese Starter
sv	Swedish Glimtändare
uk	Ukrainian Стартер (світлотехніка)
vi	Vietnamese Tắc te
zh	Chinese 启辉器

Best Rank

Portuguese: #91462 01.2013

Global: #117338 12.2009

Best Rank

Portuguese: #12939 06.2008

Global: #57297 09.2004

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