Halo

Quality:

Halo - optical phenomenon. Article “Halo” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Halo”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8999^th place) and edited by 1637 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2471 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #600 in November 2009
• Global: #2189 in May 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1284 in June 2008
• Global: #1198 in May 2015

There are 50 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, 2026 (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	German (de) Halo (Lichteffekt)		86.9604
2	Dutch (nl) Halo (lichteffect)		80.9218
3	English (en) Halo (optical phenomenon)		67.7943
4	Catalan (ca) Halo (fenomen òptic)		57.5631
5	Vietnamese (vi) Hào quang (hiện tượng quang học)		56.3232
6	Spanish (es) Halo (fenómeno meteorológico)		55.491
7	Ukrainian (uk) Гало		52.0215
8	Croatian (hr) Halo (optička pojava)		49.3473
9	Finnish (fi) Haloilmiö		48.4538
10	Russian (ru) Гало		47.9665

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Halo (optical phenomenon)		4 030 799
2	Spanish (es) Halo (fenómeno meteorológico)		3 160 048
3	Russian (ru) Гало		2 873 121
4	German (de) Halo (Lichteffekt)		1 480 862
5	Japanese (ja) 暈		1 295 479
6	Polish (pl) Halo (zjawisko optyczne)		698 786
7	French (fr) Halo (phénomène optique)		556 078
8	Portuguese (pt) Halo (fenómeno óptico)		550 434
9	Dutch (nl) Halo (lichteffect)		452 189
10	Thai (th) การทรงกลด		324 962

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) Halo (optical phenomenon)		11 486
2	German (de) Halo (Lichteffekt)		4 451
3	Russian (ru) Гало		4 405
4	Japanese (ja) 暈		3 465
5	Polish (pl) Halo (zjawisko optyczne)		1 722
6	French (fr) Halo (phénomène optique)		1 422
7	Spanish (es) Halo (fenómeno meteorológico)		1 216
8	Chinese (zh) 暈		754
9	Dutch (nl) Halo (lichteffect)		698
10	Swedish (sv) Halo (ljusfenomen)		496

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Halo (optical phenomenon)		304
2	German (de) Halo (Lichteffekt)		176
3	Spanish (es) Halo (fenómeno meteorológico)		168
4	Russian (ru) Гало		123
5	French (fr) Halo (phénomène optique)		64
6	Dutch (nl) Halo (lichteffect)		62
7	Italian (it) Alone (fenomeno ottico)		59
8	Polish (pl) Halo (zjawisko optyczne)		59
9	Hungarian (hu) Halojelenség		40
10	Finnish (fi) Haloilmiö		38

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	Arabic (ar) هالة (ظاهرة بصرية)		1
2	Catalan (ca) Halo (fenomen òptic)		1
3	Dutch (nl) Halo (lichteffect)		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Halə		0
5	Belarusian (be) Гало		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Хало		0
7	Czech (cs) Halové jevy		0
8	Danish (da) Halo		0
9	German (de) Halo (Lichteffekt)		0
10	Greek (el) Άλως (μετεωρολογία)		0

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

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