Lua (lingua programmationis)

Quality:

Lua - lightweight programming language. This programming language is the 29^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 19^th most popular programming language in Latin Wikipedia. Article "Lua (lingua programmationis)" in Latin Wikipedia has 31.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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:

Latin Wikipedia:

The 19^th most popular in programming languages in Latin Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9955^th most popular in AI.

The 29^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Latin Wikipedia:

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The 5322^nd most popular in Latin Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2287^th most editable in Latin Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7649^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Lua (lingua programmationis)" was edited by 1 authors in Latin Wikipedia (2287^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7649^th place).

Since the creation of article "Lua (lingua programmationis)", its content was written by 4 registered users of Latin Wikipedia and edited by 2530 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9955^th place).

Lua is on the 19^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Latin Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Latin Wikipedia and cited 6198 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #266 in April 2019
• Global: #1341 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #1446 in August 2020
• Global: #16432 in November 2022

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 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	Hebrew (he) לואה (שפת תכנות)		80.5052
2	Estonian (et) Lua		67.4029
3	Chinese (zh) Lua		65.7977
4	English (en) Lua		63.5497
5	Hungarian (hu) Lua (programozási nyelv)		45.8177
6	Basque (eu) Lua (programazio lengoaia)		44.6678
7	Russian (ru) Lua		43.071
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		38.4194
9	Japanese (ja) Lua		37.7918
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		6 768 307
2	Russian (ru) Lua		1 462 731
3	German (de) Lua		950 651
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		686 865
5	French (fr) Lua		601 971
6	Spanish (es) Lua		551 312
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		528 888
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		439 844
9	Polish (pl) Lua		290 863
10	Italian (it) Lua		222 988

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		23 315
2	Russian (ru) Lua		5 106
3	German (de) Lua		2 023
4	French (fr) Lua		1 827
5	Japanese (ja) Lua		1 747
6	Spanish (es) Lua		1 706
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		1 502
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		1 314
9	Polish (pl) Lua		704
10	Italian (it) Lua		611

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua		828
2	Russian (ru) Lua		194
3	French (fr) Lua		186
4	German (de) Lua		174
5	Japanese (ja) Lua		88
6	Spanish (es) Lua		87
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		86
8	Italian (it) Lua		82
9	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		78
10	Polish (pl) Lua		50

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		10
2	Japanese (ja) Lua		2
3	Thai (th) ภาษาลูอา		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		2
5	German (de) Lua		1
6	Spanish (es) Lua		1
7	French (fr) Lua		1
8	Galician (gl) Lua (linguaxe de programación)		1
9	Latin (la) Lua (lingua programmationis)		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		1

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

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