C++

Quality:

C++ - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 5^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 8^th most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “C++” in German Wikipedia has 70.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 4116^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1340^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 8^th most popular in programming languages in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1974^th most popular in all topics.

The 810^th most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9098^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “C++” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (9098^th place).

Since the creation of article “C++”, its content was written by 558 registered users of German Wikipedia (1340^th place) and edited by 6881 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (810^th place).

C++ is on the 8^th place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1706 times in German Wikipedia (5911^th place) and cited 36562 times in all languages (4475^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #41 in July 2003
• Global: #48 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #791 in October 2008
• Global: #962 in October 2021

There are 54 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	English (en) C++		85.294
2	German (de) C++		70.5745
3	Finnish (fi) C++		66.5562
4	Turkish (tr) C++		65.511
5	Indonesian (id) C++		60.6966
6	Russian (ru) C++		59.8861
7	Chinese (zh) C++		58.7876
8	Portuguese (pt) C++		58.2849
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) C++		55.2495
10	Hebrew (he) C++		45.2159

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) C++		28 040 254
2	Russian (ru) C++		8 043 912
3	Spanish (es) C++		6 591 015
4	German (de) C++		3 689 854
5	Japanese (ja) C++		2 124 472
6	Polish (pl) C++		2 053 038
7	French (fr) C++		1 959 404
8	Portuguese (pt) C++		1 650 371
9	Chinese (zh) C++		1 596 004
10	Italian (it) C++		1 377 785

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) C++		54 458
2	Russian (ru) C++		13 112
3	Spanish (es) C++		8 116
4	Japanese (ja) C++		4 248
5	German (de) C++		4 091
6	French (fr) C++		3 593
7	Chinese (zh) C++		3 188
8	Vietnamese (vi) C++		2 349
9	Portuguese (pt) C++		2 271
10	Italian (it) C++		1 857

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) C++		1 896
2	German (de) C++		558
3	Russian (ru) C++		415
4	French (fr) C++		382
5	Spanish (es) C++		313
6	Italian (it) C++		246
7	Chinese (zh) C++		235
8	Polish (pl) C++		203
9	Hebrew (he) C++		148
10	Portuguese (pt) C++		143

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) C++		7
2	German (de) C++		2
3	Russian (ru) C++		2
4	Thai (th) ภาษาซีพลัสพลัส		2
5	French (fr) C++		1
6	Galician (gl) C++		1
7	Hungarian (hu) C++		1
8	Italian (it) C++		1
9	Kazakh (kk) C++		1
10	Latin (la) C++		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 July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information