பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்

Francis Light - Founder of the British colony on Penang in 1786. Article “பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்” in Tamil Wikipedia has 50.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Tamil Wikipedia and edited by 180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 116 times in Tamil Wikipedia and cited 399 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Tamil): #3367 in June 2022
• Global: #20648 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Tamil): #29228 in April 2025
• Global: #294558 in August 2011

There are 11 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Francis Light		71.1709
2	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		50.5962
3	Malay (ms) Francis Light		46.1062
4	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		35.018
5	French (fr) Francis Light		34.2973
6	Italian (it) Francis Light		33.4311
7	Indonesian (id) Francis Light		29.6679
8	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		16.2939
9	Persian (fa) فرانسیس لایت		11.8902
10	Spanish (es) Francis Light		2.6893

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

The most popular language versions of the article "பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Light		345 309
2	Malay (ms) Francis Light		110 259
3	Chinese (zh) 弗朗西斯·萊特		39 250
4	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		5 215
5	Indonesian (id) Francis Light		3 444
6	Spanish (es) Francis Light		1 749
7	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		1 488
8	Italian (it) Francis Light		599
9	French (fr) Francis Light		485
10	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		436

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Light		1 926
2	Chinese (zh) 弗朗西斯·萊特		310
3	Malay (ms) Francis Light		297
4	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		86
5	Indonesian (id) Francis Light		34
6	Persian (fa) فرانسیس لایت		24
7	French (fr) Francis Light		24
8	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		23
9	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		21
10	Italian (it) Francis Light		7

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

Language versions of the article "பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Francis Light		116
2	Chinese (zh) 弗朗西斯·萊特		18
3	Malay (ms) Francis Light		9
4	Italian (it) Francis Light		8
5	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		8
6	French (fr) Francis Light		5
7	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		4
8	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		4
9	Spanish (es) Francis Light		3
10	Persian (fa) فرانسیس لایت		3

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

Language versions of the article "பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Francis Light		1
2	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		0
3	Spanish (es) Francis Light		0
4	Persian (fa) فرانسیس لایت		0
5	French (fr) Francis Light		0
6	Indonesian (id) Francis Light		0
7	Italian (it) Francis Light		0
8	Malay (ms) Francis Light		0
9	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		0
10	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		0

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

Language versions of the article "பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Francis Light		127
2	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்		116
3	Malay (ms) Francis Light		53
4	Chinese (zh) 弗朗西斯·萊特		23
5	Indonesian (id) Francis Light		18
6	French (fr) Francis Light		13
7	Italian (it) Francis Light		12
8	Thai (th) ฟรานซิส ไลต์		12
9	Persian (fa) فرانسیس لایت		10
10	Arabic (ar) فرانسيس لايت		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فرانسيس لايت
en	English Francis Light
es	Spanish Francis Light
fa	Persian فرانسیس لایت
fr	French Francis Light
id	Indonesian Francis Light
it	Italian Francis Light
ms	Malay Francis Light
ta	Tamil பிரான்சிஸ் லைட்
th	Thai ฟรานซิส ไลต์
zh	Chinese 弗朗西斯·萊特

Best Rank

Tamil: #29228 04.2025

Global: #294558 08.2011

Best Rank

Tamil: #3367 06.2022

Global: #20648 08.2022

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