Light pollution

Quality:

Light pollution - anthropogenic light in the night environment, caused by excess or misdirected lighting. Article “Light pollution” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.58 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6209^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5485^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8916^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Light pollution”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5485^th place) and edited by 2718 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8916^th place).

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in January 2005
• Global: #2786 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #590 in May 2010
• Global: #10049 in May 2015

There are 47 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) Lichtverschmutzung		100
2	Malay (ms) Pencemaran cahaya		98.7317
3	French (fr) Pollution lumineuse		95.6596
4	English (en) Light pollution		91.4369
5	Arabic (ar) تلوث ضوئي		85.1356
6	Hindi (hi) प्रकाश प्रदूषण		85
7	Armenian (hy) Լույսի աղտոտում		74.1995
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ô nhiễm ánh sáng		67.5128
9	Tamil (ta) ஒளி மாசு		67.0275
10	Ukrainian (uk) Світлове забруднення		66.5543

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light pollution		4 818 887
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación lumínica		1 640 348
3	German (de) Lichtverschmutzung		684 697
4	French (fr) Pollution lumineuse		539 236
5	Chinese (zh) 光害		369 337
6	Portuguese (pt) Poluição luminosa		338 615
7	Japanese (ja) 光害		324 435
8	Russian (ru) Световое загрязнение		306 981
9	Italian (it) Inquinamento luminoso		285 336
10	Arabic (ar) تلوث ضوئي		173 278

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) Light pollution		5 844
2	German (de) Lichtverschmutzung		1 203
3	French (fr) Pollution lumineuse		589
4	Persian (fa) آلودگی نوری		523
5	Russian (ru) Световое загрязнение		520
6	Japanese (ja) 光害		499
7	Spanish (es) Contaminación lumínica		482
8	Chinese (zh) 光害		474
9	Italian (it) Inquinamento luminoso		403
10	Polish (pl) Zanieczyszczenie świetlne		236

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Light pollution		780
2	German (de) Lichtverschmutzung		298
3	French (fr) Pollution lumineuse		262
4	Spanish (es) Contaminación lumínica		122
5	Italian (it) Inquinamento luminoso		112
6	Dutch (nl) Lichtvervuiling		99
7	Hebrew (he) זיהום אור		95
8	Japanese (ja) 光害		68
9	Russian (ru) Световое загрязнение		64
10	Chinese (zh) 光害		63

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) تلوث ضوئي		1
2	Catalan (ca) Contaminació lumínica		1
3	Czech (cs) Světelné znečištění		1
4	English (en) Light pollution		1
5	Spanish (es) Contaminación lumínica		1
6	Hebrew (he) זיהום אור		1
7	Hindi (hi) प्रकाश प्रदूषण		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Світлове забруднення		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Светлинно замърсяване		0
10	Danish (da) Lysforurening		0

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

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