Darkness

Quality:

Darkness - lack of light. Article “Darkness” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Darkness”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7046^th place) and edited by 1150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2170 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #286 in April 2023
• Global: #3693 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1999 in June 2013
• Global: #20946 in March 2014

There are 41 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	Malay (ms) Kegelapan		60.8167
2	Latin (la) Tenebrae		44.0028
3	Ukrainian (uk) Темрява		34.3634
4	Tamil (ta) இருள்		34.3551
5	Hebrew (he) חושך		34.0792
6	Serbian (sr) Тама		29.9486
7	English (en) Darkness		29.4666
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng tối		29.1909
9	Spanish (es) Oscuridad		29.0811
10	Hindi (hi) अंधेरा		28.5172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Darkness		2 535 898
2	Spanish (es) Oscuridad		891 505
3	Japanese (ja) 闇		747 121
4	Russian (ru) Темнота		173 326
5	Portuguese (pt) Escuridão		153 685
6	Italian (it) Oscurità		120 974
7	Chinese (zh) 黑暗		106 899
8	Polish (pl) Ciemność		91 136
9	French (fr) Obscurité		89 707
10	Arabic (ar) ظلام		78 312

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) Darkness		6 728
2	Simple English (simple) Darkness		1 331
3	Japanese (ja) 闇		631
4	Spanish (es) Oscuridad		558
5	Russian (ru) Темнота		395
6	Chinese (zh) 黑暗		333
7	Persian (fa) تاریکی		247
8	Italian (it) Oscurità		225
9	Portuguese (pt) Escuridão		224
10	Arabic (ar) ظلام		191

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Darkness		433
2	Spanish (es) Oscuridad		63
3	French (fr) Obscurité		59
4	Italian (it) Oscurità		53
5	Japanese (ja) 闇		45
6	Dutch (nl) Duisternis		36
7	Hebrew (he) חושך		33
8	Finnish (fi) Pimeys		29
9	Simple English (simple) Darkness		29
10	Swedish (sv) Mörker		25

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	Turkish (tr) Karanlık		2
2	Galician (gl) Escuridade		1
3	Arabic (ar) ظلام		0
4	Catalan (ca) Foscor		0
5	Czech (cs) Tma		0
6	Greek (el) Σκοτάδι		0
7	English (en) Darkness		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Mallumo		0
9	Spanish (es) Oscuridad		0
10	Basque (eu) Iluntasun		0

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

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