Awk

This programming language is the 61^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 45^th most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “Awk” in German Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Awk”, its content was written by 131 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

AWK is on the 45^th place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 61^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4343 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #167 in August 2002
• Global: #280 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #12214 in July 2008
• Global: #26271 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, 2026 (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) AWK		56.3028
2	Estonian (et) AWK		46.9474
3	Chinese (zh) AWK		37.9679
4	Greek (el) AWK		35.6958
5	Hungarian (hu) Awk		33.6911
6	Finnish (fi) AWK		33.16
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Awk		31.223
8	Romanian (ro) AWK		29.7456
9	Hebrew (he) AWK		29.6859
10	Polish (pl) AWK		27.9739

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		3 558 302
2	German (de) Awk		653 829
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		533 573
4	Russian (ru) AWK		415 893
5	Spanish (es) AWK		322 523
6	French (fr) Awk		308 222
7	Polish (pl) AWK		282 156
8	Chinese (zh) AWK		149 410
9	Italian (it) Awk		101 007
10	Portuguese (pt) AWK		86 119

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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 "Awk" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		5 885
2	German (de) Awk		573
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		423
4	Chinese (zh) AWK		416
5	Russian (ru) AWK		368
6	Spanish (es) AWK		222
7	French (fr) Awk		219
8	Polish (pl) AWK		203
9	Italian (it) Awk		119
10	Czech (cs) AWK		62

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK		292
2	German (de) Awk		131
3	French (fr) Awk		84
4	Japanese (ja) AWK		74
5	Italian (it) Awk		67
6	Dutch (nl) AWK		55
7	Russian (ru) AWK		54
8	Spanish (es) AWK		43
9	Hungarian (hu) Awk		42
10	Polish (pl) AWK		41

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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 "Awk" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK		3
2	Spanish (es) AWK		1
3	Romanian (ro) AWK		1
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) AWK		1
5	Slovak (sk) AWK		1
6	Arabic (ar) أوك (لغة برمجة)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) AWK		0
8	Catalan (ca) Awk		0
9	Czech (cs) AWK		0
10	Danish (da) AWK (programmeringssprog)		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 "Awk" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) AWK		377
2	Chinese (zh) AWK		334
3	Polish (pl) AWK		319
4	Ukrainian (uk) AWK		312
5	Czech (cs) AWK		260
6	Japanese (ja) AWK		250
7	Italian (it) Awk		221
8	French (fr) Awk		210
9	Russian (ru) AWK		207
10	Korean (ko) AWK		178

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#	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

Best Rank

German: #12214 07.2008

Global: #26271 11.2014

Best Rank

German: #167 08.2002

Global: #280 08.2001

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