Photodetector

Quality:

Photodetector - sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy. Article “Photodetector” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Photodetector”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 541 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3052 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5881 in August 2012
• Global: #8228 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2900 in January 2012
• Global: #35121 in December 2008

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) Photodetector		48.9584
2	Catalan (ca) Fotodetector		48.3919
3	Spanish (es) Fotodetector		36.6736
4	Vietnamese (vi) Photodetector		32.8242
5	Serbian (sr) Фотодетектор		32.4016
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Fotodetektor		30.4518
7	Polish (pl) Fotodetektor		27.0728
8	Croatian (hr) Fotoćelija		26.9806
9	Turkish (tr) Fotodedektör		21.6242
10	Uzbek (uz) Fotodetektor		21.325

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Photodetector		1 892 288
2	German (de) Photodetektor		346 800
3	Japanese (ja) 光検出器		307 431
4	Indonesian (id) Sensor cahaya		202 083
5	Spanish (es) Fotodetector		162 769
6	Italian (it) Fotorivelatore		157 337
7	Turkish (tr) Fotodedektör		110 676
8	Arabic (ar) مستشعر ضوئي		106 377
9	Chinese (zh) 光感測器		87 304
10	Russian (ru) Фоточувствительные приборы		85 590

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) Photodetector		2 227
2	German (de) Photodetektor		282
3	Japanese (ja) 光検出器		165
4	Chinese (zh) 光感測器		141
5	Italian (it) Fotorivelatore		114
6	French (fr) Photodétecteur		110
7	Spanish (es) Fotodetector		98
8	Russian (ru) Фоточувствительные приборы		66
9	Persian (fa) آشکارساز نوری		51
10	Polish (pl) Fotodetektor		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Photodetector		126
2	German (de) Photodetektor		73
3	Italian (it) Fotorivelatore		52
4	Turkish (tr) Fotodedektör		32
5	French (fr) Photodétecteur		27
6	Japanese (ja) 光検出器		19
7	Arabic (ar) مستشعر ضوئي		17
8	Spanish (es) Fotodetector		17
9	Persian (fa) آشکارساز نوری		15
10	Russian (ru) Фоточувствительные приборы		15

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) مستشعر ضوئي		1
2	English (en) Photodetector		1
3	Basque (eu) Fotodetektagailu		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Fotodetektor		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Фотодетектор		0
6	Catalan (ca) Fotodetector		0
7	Czech (cs) Detektor záření		0
8	Danish (da) Fotodetektor		0
9	German (de) Photodetektor		0
10	Spanish (es) Fotodetector		0

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

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