Light bulb

Quality:

Electric light - any device that produces light from electricity. Article “Light bulb” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.98 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Light bulb”, its content was written by 115 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (521^st place) and edited by 1659 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 99 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3460 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #18 in May 2014
• Global: #745 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #113 in February 2015
• Global: #14887 in May 2008

There are 39 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	English (en) Electric light		85.4202
2	Hebrew (he) נורה חשמלית		47.6552
3	Arabic (ar) مصباح كهربائي		42.1438
4	Malay (ms) Cahaya elektrik		42.1381
5	Bulgarian (bg) Електрическо осветление		41.1389
6	Simple English (simple) Light bulb		37.5332
7	Japanese (ja) 電球		33.5488
8	Catalan (ca) Llum elèctrica		33.1431
9	Hindi (hi) विद्युत प्रकाश		31.5311
10	Greek (el) Ηλεκτρικός λαμπτήρας		30.2217

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric light		4 961 896
2	Arabic (ar) مصباح كهربائي		1 207 872
3	French (fr) Lampe électrique		1 090 359
4	Spanish (es) Luz eléctrica		1 084 268
5	Japanese (ja) 電球		930 867
6	Simple English (simple) Light bulb		652 389
7	Hebrew (he) נורה חשמלית		457 975
8	Persian (fa) لامپ		313 051
9	Thai (th) หลอดไฟฟ้า		266 315
10	Norwegian (no) Elektrisk belysning		225 631

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) Electric light		8 313
2	Simple English (simple) Light bulb		1 091
3	Japanese (ja) 電球		797
4	Persian (fa) لامپ		303
5	French (fr) Lampe électrique		295
6	Spanish (es) Luz eléctrica		267
7	Hebrew (he) נורה חשמלית		209
8	German (de) Elektrisches Licht		205
9	Thai (th) หลอดไฟฟ้า		144
10	Finnish (fi) Sähkövalo		114

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electric light		707
2	French (fr) Lampe électrique		187
3	Hebrew (he) נורה חשמלית		175
4	Simple English (simple) Light bulb		115
5	Persian (fa) لامپ		78
6	Japanese (ja) 電球		57
7	Spanish (es) Luz eléctrica		53
8	German (de) Elektrisches Licht		41
9	Arabic (ar) مصباح كهربائي		27
10	Greek (el) Ηλεκτρικός λαμπτήρας		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	Basque (eu) Lanpara elektriko		1
2	Hebrew (he) נורה חשמלית		1
3	Arabic (ar) مصباح كهربائي		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Електрическо осветление		0
5	Catalan (ca) Llum elèctrica		0
6	Danish (da) Lampe (elektrisk)		0
7	German (de) Elektrisches Licht		0
8	Greek (el) Ηλεκτρικός λαμπτήρας		0
9	English (en) Electric light		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Elektra lumo		0

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

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