COBOL

Quality:

This programming language is the 24^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 21^st most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “COBOL” in German Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 21^st most popular in programming languages in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 24^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “COBOL” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “COBOL”, its content was written by 215 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2314 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

COBOL is on the 21^st place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 24^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 155 times in German Wikipedia and cited 6291 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #662 in September 2004
• Global: #187 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2771 in April 2020
• Global: #1494 in December 2013

There are 51 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	Korean (ko) 코볼		85.0922
2	Arabic (ar) كوبول		82.6087
3	English (en) COBOL		80.8056
4	Catalan (ca) COBOL		64.3011
5	Norwegian (no) COBOL		59.0579
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) COBOL		53.5132
7	Spanish (es) COBOL		46.241
8	Basque (eu) COBOL		45.6442
9	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		42.7521
10	French (fr) Cobol		39.3786

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) COBOL		8 781 040
2	Spanish (es) COBOL		1 666 578
3	Japanese (ja) COBOL		1 606 485
4	German (de) COBOL		1 084 904
5	French (fr) Cobol		914 597
6	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		710 201
7	Russian (ru) Кобол		569 887
8	Polish (pl) COBOL		411 971
9	Italian (it) COBOL		381 440
10	Chinese (zh) COBOL		309 551

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) COBOL		21 319
2	Japanese (ja) COBOL		3 090
3	German (de) COBOL		2 425
4	French (fr) Cobol		2 126
5	Russian (ru) Кобол		1 535
6	Spanish (es) COBOL		1 365
7	Polish (pl) COBOL		827
8	Chinese (zh) COBOL		745
9	Italian (it) COBOL		706
10	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		617

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) COBOL		612
2	German (de) COBOL		215
3	French (fr) Cobol		175
4	Italian (it) COBOL		122
5	Spanish (es) COBOL		111
6	Dutch (nl) COBOL		109
7	Japanese (ja) COBOL		86
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		78
9	Russian (ru) Кобол		74
10	Polish (pl) COBOL		64

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	French (fr) Cobol		5
2	English (en) COBOL		3
3	Catalan (ca) COBOL		2
4	Arabic (ar) كوبول		1
5	German (de) COBOL		1
6	Spanish (es) COBOL		1
7	Basque (eu) COBOL		1
8	Norwegian (no) COBOL		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) COBOL		0
10	Belarusian (be) COBOL		0

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

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