AWK (programmeringssprog)

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AWK - data-driven programming language made by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. This programming language is the 59^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 72^nd most popular programming language in Danish Wikipedia. Article "AWK (programmeringssprog)" in Danish Wikipedia has 7.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

The 72^nd most popular in programming languages in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 59^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "AWK (programmeringssprog)", its content was written by 5 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 1255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

AWK is on the 72^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in Danish Wikipedia and on the 59^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 4380 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

Local (Danish): #5366 in September 2023
Global: #217 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

Local (Danish): #51524 in October 2013
Global: #25495 in November 2014

There are 39 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

#	Language	Quality score
1	English (en) AWK	55.712
2	Estonian (et) AWK	47.1095
3	Chinese (zh) AWK	38.0376
4	Greek (el) AWK	35.5343
5	Hungarian (hu) Awk	33.7161
6	Finnish (fi) AWK	33.172
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Awk	31.223
8	Hebrew (he) AWK	30.8272
9	Romanian (ro) AWK	29.8024
10	Polish (pl) AWK	27.9156

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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 "AWK (programmeringssprog)" in all the time

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK	3 475 390
2	German (de) Awk	645 250
3	Japanese (ja) AWK	525 963
4	Russian (ru) AWK	409 749
5	Spanish (es) AWK	319 228
6	French (fr) Awk	304 356
7	Polish (pl) AWK	279 319
8	Chinese (zh) AWK	145 196
9	Italian (it) Awk	94 414
10	Portuguese (pt) AWK	85 182

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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 "AWK (programmeringssprog)" in June 2025

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK	7 503
2	German (de) Awk	803
3	Japanese (ja) AWK	677
4	Chinese (zh) AWK	445
5	Russian (ru) AWK	416
6	French (fr) Awk	393
7	Spanish (es) AWK	327
8	Polish (pl) AWK	179
9	Italian (it) Awk	158
10	Czech (cs) AWK	121

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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 "AWK (programmeringssprog)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK	284
2	German (de) Awk	131
3	French (fr) Awk	84
4	Japanese (ja) AWK	72
5	Italian (it) Awk	67
6	Dutch (nl) AWK	55
7	Russian (ru) AWK	52
8	Spanish (es) AWK	42
9	Hungarian (hu) Awk	42
10	Polish (pl) AWK	39

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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 "AWK (programmeringssprog)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	Relative AI
1	German (de) Awk	1
2	Galician (gl) AWK	1
3	Hungarian (hu) Awk	1
4	Arabic (ar) أوك (لغة برمجة)	0
5	Bulgarian (bg) AWK	0
6	Catalan (ca) Awk	0
7	Czech (cs) AWK	0
8	Danish (da) AWK (programmeringssprog)	0
9	Greek (el) AWK	0
10	English (en) AWK	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 "AWK (programmeringssprog)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	Relative CI
1	English (en) AWK	393
2	Chinese (zh) AWK	333
3	Polish (pl) AWK	322
4	Ukrainian (uk) AWK	314
5	Czech (cs) AWK	254
6	Japanese (ja) AWK	250
7	Italian (it) Awk	222
8	French (fr) Awk	211
9	Russian (ru) AWK	209
10	Hungarian (hu) Awk	175

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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أوك (لغة برمجة)
bg	Bulgarian AWK
ca	Catalan Awk
cs	Czech AWK
da	Danish AWK (programmeringssprog)
de	German Awk
el	Greek AWK
en	English AWK
es	Spanish AWK
et	Estonian AWK
fa	Persian AWK
fi	Finnish AWK
fr	French Awk
gl	Galician AWK
he	Hebrew AWK
hr	Croatian AWK
hu	Hungarian Awk
hy	Armenian AWK
it	Italian Awk
ja	Japanese AWK
ko	Korean AWK
ms	Malay AWK
nl	Dutch AWK
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Awk
no	Norwegian Awk
pl	Polish AWK
pt	Portuguese AWK
ro	Romanian AWK
ru	Russian AWK
sh	Serbo-Croatian AWK
simple	Simple English Awk
sk	Slovak AWK
sr	Serbian AWK
sv	Swedish Awk
th	Thai ภาษาออว์ก
tr	Turkish AWK
uk	Ukrainian AWK
vi	Vietnamese AWK
zh	Chinese AWK

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank	Danish: #51524 10.2013	Global: #25495 11.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank	Danish: #5366 09.2023	Global: #217 08.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on AWK from Wikipedia articles about Brian Kernighan, Perl, Sed, Bell Labs and Regular expression. Whereas reading the article about AWK people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sed, Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Grep.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: AWK

de: Awk

ja: AWK

ru: AWK

es: AWK

fr: Awk

pl: AWK

zh: AWK

it: Awk

pt: AWK

ko: AWK

cs: AWK

nl: AWK

hu: Awk

fa: AWK

fi: AWK

ar: أوك (لغة برمجة)

tr: AWK

sv: Awk

uk: AWK

vi: AWK

ca: Awk

th: ภาษาออว์ก

sk: AWK

ro: AWK

no: Awk

el: AWK

he: AWK

hr: AWK

et: AWK

ms: AWK

gl: AWK

sh: AWK

da: AWK (programmeringssprog)

hy: AWK

bg: AWK

sr: AWK

simple: Awk

nn: Awk

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