Lua

Quality:

Lua - lightweight programming language. This programming language is the 28^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 43^rd most popular programming language in Estonian Wikipedia. Article "Lua" in Estonian Wikipedia has 67.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 47 references and 24 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Estonian Wikipedia:

The 43^rd most popular in programming languages in Estonian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 28^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Estonian Wikipedia:

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The 5384^th most editable in Estonian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9360^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Lua" was edited by 1 authors in Estonian Wikipedia (5384^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (9360^th place).

Since the creation of article "Lua", its content was written by 11 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 2415 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lua is on the 43^rd place in local ranking of programming languages in Estonian Wikipedia and on the 28^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 5964 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #28 in January 2017
• Global: #1342 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #3991 in July 2020
• Global: #17292 in January 2015

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Hebrew (he) לואה (שפת תכנות)		80.7079
2	Estonian (et) Lua		67.4069
3	Chinese (zh) Lua		64.0197
4	English (en) Lua (programming language)		63.2663
5	Hungarian (hu) Lua (programozási nyelv)		45.1912
6	Basque (eu) Lua (programazio lengoaia)		45.0802
7	Russian (ru) Lua		43.1725
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		38.3009
9	Japanese (ja) Lua		38.3002
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lua		36.8512

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		6 341 920
2	Russian (ru) Lua		1 387 877
3	German (de) Lua		920 494
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		665 297
5	French (fr) Lua		579 577
6	Spanish (es) Lua		526 626
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		509 667
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		419 789
9	Polish (pl) Lua		280 802
10	Italian (it) Lua		213 267

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) Lua (programming language)		29 137
2	Russian (ru) Lua		6 015
3	German (de) Lua		2 829
4	Chinese (zh) Lua		2 306
5	Spanish (es) Lua		2 181
6	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		2 107
7	Japanese (ja) Lua		2 058
8	French (fr) Lua		1 919
9	Italian (it) Lua		929
10	Polish (pl) Lua		793

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua (programming language)		784
2	Russian (ru) Lua		186
3	French (fr) Lua		177
4	German (de) Lua		165
5	Chinese (zh) Lua		86
6	Spanish (es) Lua		85
7	Japanese (ja) Lua		84
8	Italian (it) Lua		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		73
10	Polish (pl) Lua		49

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) Lua (programming language)		9
2	French (fr) Lua		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		2
4	Slovenian (sl) Lua (programski jezik)		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		2
6	Arabic (ar) لوا (لغة برمجة)		1
7	Estonian (et) Lua		1
8	Finnish (fi) Lua		1
9	Hindi (hi) लुआ (प्रोग्रामन भाषा)		1
10	Italian (it) Lua		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information