Luminiferous aether

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Luminiferous aether

Quality:

Luminiferous aether - postulated medium for the propagation of light. Article “Luminiferous aether” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9416th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Luminiferous aether”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1446 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2590 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1412 in November 2020
  • Global: #582 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #494 in October 2014
  • Global: #27653 in February 2011

There are 40 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Äther (Physik)
87.1429
2English (en)
Luminiferous aether
75.2045
3Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
66.2406
4Basque (eu)
Eter (fisika)
62.0004
5Spanish (es)
Éter (física)
59.916
6Belarusian (be)
Эфір (фізіка)
34.0023
7Armenian (hy)
Եթեր (ֆիզիկա)
32.5925
8Croatian (hr)
Eter (fizika)
28.8325
9Catalan (ca)
Èter (física)
23.3533
10Polish (pl)
Eter (fizyka)
21.9353
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Luminiferous aether" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Luminiferous aether
2 579 647
2Spanish (es)
Éter (física)
1 771 145
3Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
1 533 195
4German (de)
Äther (Physik)
938 981
5Chinese (zh)
以太
774 949
6Japanese (ja)
エーテル (物理学)
762 294
7Italian (it)
Etere luminifero
233 937
8Dutch (nl)
Ether (medium)
217 941
9Polish (pl)
Eter (fizyka)
207 561
10Persian (fa)
اتر (فیزیک)
131 154
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Luminiferous aether" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Luminiferous aether
12 320
2Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
5 536
3Chinese (zh)
以太
3 434
4German (de)
Äther (Physik)
2 566
5Japanese (ja)
エーテル (物理学)
2 394
6Spanish (es)
Éter (física)
1 290
7Polish (pl)
Eter (fizyka)
799
8Simple English (simple)
Luminiferous aether
746
9Korean (ko)
에테르 (물리)
570
10Italian (it)
Etere luminifero
537
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Luminiferous aether" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Luminiferous aether
342
2German (de)
Äther (Physik)
215
3Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
116
4Spanish (es)
Éter (física)
84
5Chinese (zh)
以太
64
6Italian (it)
Etere luminifero
62
7Dutch (nl)
Ether (medium)
60
8Polish (pl)
Eter (fizyka)
58
9Japanese (ja)
エーテル (物理学)
46
10Finnish (fi)
Valoeetteri
41
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Luminiferous aether" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
2
2English (en)
Luminiferous aether
1
3Arabic (ar)
أثير ناقل للضوء
0
4Belarusian (be)
Эфір (фізіка)
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Етер (физика)
0
6Catalan (ca)
Èter (física)
0
7Czech (cs)
Éter (fyzika)
0
8Danish (da)
Æter (fysikhistorie)
0
9German (de)
Äther (Physik)
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Lumporta etero
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Luminiferous aether" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Luminiferous aether
384
2Russian (ru)
Эфир (физика)
261
3German (de)
Äther (Physik)
213
4Spanish (es)
Éter (física)
213
5Chinese (zh)
以太
182
6Dutch (nl)
Ether (medium)
148
7Polish (pl)
Eter (fizyka)
106
8Italian (it)
Etere luminifero
98
9Japanese (ja)
エーテル (物理学)
97
10Ukrainian (uk)
Ефір (фізика)
90
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
أثير ناقل للضوء
beBelarusian
Эфір (фізіка)
bgBulgarian
Етер (физика)
caCatalan
Èter (física)
csCzech
Éter (fyzika)
daDanish
Æter (fysikhistorie)
deGerman
Äther (Physik)
enEnglish
Luminiferous aether
eoEsperanto
Lumporta etero
esSpanish
Éter (física)
etEstonian
Eeter (füüsika)
euBasque
Eter (fisika)
faPersian
اتر (فیزیک)
fiFinnish
Valoeetteri
hrCroatian
Eter (fizika)
huHungarian
Éter (fizika)
hyArmenian
Եթեր (ֆիզիկա)
idIndonesian
Eter (medium)
itItalian
Etere luminifero
jaJapanese
エーテル (物理学)
kkKazakh
Эфир (физика)
koKorean
에테르 (물리)
laLatin
Aether (physica)
ltLithuanian
Eteris (fizika)
nlDutch
Ether (medium)
noNorwegian
Eter (fysikk)
plPolish
Eter (fizyka)
ptPortuguese
Éter luminífero
roRomanian
Eter luminifer
ruRussian
Эфир (физика)
shSerbo-Croatian
Etar (fizika)
simpleSimple English
Luminiferous aether
skSlovak
Éter (fyzika)
slSlovenian
Eter (fizika)
srSerbian
Етар (физика)
svSwedish
Eter (fysik)
ukUkrainian
Ефір (фізика)
uzUzbek
Dunyoviy efir
viVietnamese
Ête (vật lý)
zhChinese
以太

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#494
10.2014
Global:
#27653
02.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1412
11.2020
Global:
#582
02.2002

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Luminiferous aether from Wikipedia articles about Aether, Aether, Michelson–Morley experiment, Eter and Zero-point energy. Whereas reading the article about Luminiferous aether people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Michelson–Morley experiment, Aether theories, Special relativity, Aether and Superseded scientific theory.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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