Phoenix lights

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Phoenix lights

Quality:

Phoenix Lights - light phenomenon that occurred on March 13 1997 over Arizona and Nevada, United States. Article “Phoenix lights” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Phoenix lights”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1001 in November 2007
  • Global: #15181 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #13483 in March 2010
  • Global: #6899 in April 2017

There are 23 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
鳳凰城光點
79.066
2English (en)
Phoenix Lights
54.3433
3Spanish (es)
Luces de Phoenix
42.8714
4Greek (el)
Φώτα του Φοίνιξ
38.4636
5Persian (fa)
نورهای فینیکس
37.212
6Hebrew (he)
אורות פיניקס
33.397
7Vietnamese (vi)
Ánh sáng Phoenix
32.3096
8Romanian (ro)
Luminile de la Phoenix
27.151
9French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
27.0109
10Italian (it)
Avvistamento di Phoenix
26.5332
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Phoenix lights" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Phoenix Lights
5 016 410
2French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
244 105
3Japanese (ja)
フェニックスの光
229 341
4Russian (ru)
Огни Финикса
177 732
5Chinese (zh)
鳳凰城光點
171 687
6Spanish (es)
Luces de Phoenix
147 398
7Italian (it)
Avvistamento di Phoenix
91 358
8Portuguese (pt)
Luzes de Phoenix
79 263
9Turkish (tr)
Phoenix Işıkları
30 595
10Finnish (fi)
Phoenixin valot
25 572
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Phoenix lights" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Phoenix Lights
13 818
2Japanese (ja)
フェニックスの光
2 874
3Spanish (es)
Luces de Phoenix
1 512
4Chinese (zh)
鳳凰城光點
744
5French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
502
6Russian (ru)
Огни Финикса
383
7Italian (it)
Avvistamento di Phoenix
273
8Simple English (simple)
Phoenix lights
245
9Portuguese (pt)
Luzes de Phoenix
235
10Turkish (tr)
Phoenix Işıkları
85
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Phoenix lights" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Phoenix Lights
371
2French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
45
3Italian (it)
Avvistamento di Phoenix
40
4Hebrew (he)
אורות פיניקס
37
5Chinese (zh)
鳳凰城光點
32
6Russian (ru)
Огни Финикса
25
7Ukrainian (uk)
Вогні Фінікса
23
8Japanese (ja)
フェニックスの光
20
9Finnish (fi)
Phoenixin valot
16
10Simple English (simple)
Phoenix lights
15
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Phoenix lights" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
أضواء فينيكس
1
2Czech (cs)
Phoenixská světla
0
3Greek (el)
Φώτα του Φοίνιξ
0
4English (en)
Phoenix Lights
0
5Spanish (es)
Luces de Phoenix
0
6Persian (fa)
نورهای فینیکس
0
7Finnish (fi)
Phoenixin valot
0
8French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
0
9Hebrew (he)
אורות פיניקס
0
10Croatian (hr)
Svjetla iznad Phoenixa
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Phoenix lights" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Vietnamese (vi)
Ánh sáng Phoenix
380
2English (en)
Phoenix Lights
300
3Arabic (ar)
أضواء فينيكس
211
4Romanian (ro)
Luminile de la Phoenix
168
5French (fr)
Lumières de Phoenix
104
6Portuguese (pt)
Luzes de Phoenix
104
7Chinese (zh)
鳳凰城光點
99
8Persian (fa)
نورهای فینیکس
95
9Ukrainian (uk)
Вогні Фінікса
76
10Russian (ru)
Огни Финикса
72
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
أضواء فينيكس
csCzech
Phoenixská světla
elGreek
Φώτα του Φοίνιξ
enEnglish
Phoenix Lights
esSpanish
Luces de Phoenix
faPersian
نورهای فینیکس
fiFinnish
Phoenixin valot
frFrench
Lumières de Phoenix
heHebrew
אורות פיניקס
hrCroatian
Svjetla iznad Phoenixa
itItalian
Avvistamento di Phoenix
jaJapanese
フェニックスの光
ltLithuanian
Finikso žiburiai
nlDutch
Phoenix Lights
ptPortuguese
Luzes de Phoenix
roRomanian
Luminile de la Phoenix
ruRussian
Огни Финикса
simpleSimple English
Phoenix lights
svSwedish
Phoenix Lights
trTurkish
Phoenix Işıkları
ukUkrainian
Вогні Фінікса
viVietnamese
Ánh sáng Phoenix
zhChinese
鳳凰城光點

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#13483
03.2010
Global:
#6899
04.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1001
11.2007
Global:
#15181
09.2011

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Phoenix Lights from Wikipedia articles about Unidentified flying object, Black triangle, List of reported UFO sightings, Phoenix Forgotten and Heavens Gate. Whereas reading the article about Phoenix Lights people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, Steel square, Black triangle, Fife Symington and List of reported UFO sightings.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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