Oil lamp

Quality:

Oil lamp - object used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. Article “Oil lamp” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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 “Oil lamp”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1048 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2974 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #646 in August 2008
• Global: #6786 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7100 in January 2008
• Global: #3315 in September 2018

There are 36 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) Oil lamp		53.86
2	French (fr) Lampe à huile		53.7428
3	Malay (ms) Lampu minyak		41.4386
4	Italian (it) Lucerna (lampada)		40.2957
5	Japanese (ja) オイルランプ		38.8859
6	Ukrainian (uk) Каганець		35.5
7	German (de) Öllampe		35.2203
8	Hebrew (he) מנורת שמן		33.2233
9	Romanian (ro) Opaiț		32.5206
10	Tamil (ta) எண்ணெய் விளக்கு		29.2189

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Oil lamp		2 730 846
2	French (fr) Lampe à huile		946 107
3	German (de) Öllampe		467 734
4	Russian (ru) Масляная лампа		290 024
5	Portuguese (pt) Lâmpada a óleo		203 568
6	Turkish (tr) Kandil		183 811
7	Dutch (nl) Olielamp		110 913
8	Spanish (es) Lucerna (lámpara)		99 619
9	Chinese (zh) 油灯		91 346
10	Persian (fa) چراغ موشی		69 169

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) Oil lamp		5 762
2	French (fr) Lampe à huile		940
3	German (de) Öllampe		913
4	Russian (ru) Масляная лампа		801
5	Japanese (ja) オイルランプ		475
6	Italian (it) Lucerna (lampada)		352
7	Chinese (zh) 油灯		315
8	Turkish (tr) Kandil		301
9	Spanish (es) Lucerna (lámpara)		292
10	Portuguese (pt) Lâmpada a óleo		254

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Oil lamp		360
2	French (fr) Lampe à huile		151
3	German (de) Öllampe		120
4	Dutch (nl) Olielamp		47
5	Russian (ru) Масляная лампа		47
6	Hebrew (he) מנורת שמן		39
7	Ukrainian (uk) Каганець		24
8	Swedish (sv) Oljelampa		21
9	Spanish (es) Lucerna (lámpara)		19
10	Portuguese (pt) Lâmpada a óleo		17

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	English (en) Oil lamp		2
2	Persian (fa) چراغ موشی		2
3	Arabic (ar) مصباح زيتي		1
4	Belarusian (be) Каганец		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Olelampo		1
6	Spanish (es) Lucerna (lámpara)		1
7	French (fr) Lampe à huile		1
8	Dutch (nl) Olielamp		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Yağ lampası		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Маслена лампа		0

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

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