Extensible Markup Language

Quality:

XML - markup language by the W3C for encoding of data. This programming language is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 8^th most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “Extensible Markup Language” in German Wikipedia has 44.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 3796^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 4003^rd most editable in German Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 3486^th most popular in all topics.

The 3830^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Extensible Markup Language” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Extensible Markup Language”, its content was written by 399 registered users of German Wikipedia (4003^rd place) and edited by 4064 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3830^th place).

XML is on the 8^th place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1384 times in German Wikipedia (7855^th place) and cited 18349 times in all languages (9463^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #102 in December 2002
• Global: #77 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #683 in July 2008
• Global: #545 in July 2008

There are 50 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	Tamil (ta) எக்ஸ்எம்எல்		81.25
2	English (en) XML		60.3738
3	Malay (ms) XML		51.9804
4	Japanese (ja) XML		47.3489
5	Chinese (zh) XML		45.3156
6	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		44.4153
7	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		44.3377
8	Persian (fa) اکس‌ام‌ال		36.5488
9	Slovenian (sl) XML		36.3607
10	Croatian (hr) XML		35.9126

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) XML		24 075 432
2	Russian (ru) XML		4 117 390
3	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		4 024 252
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		3 515 060
5	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		2 370 247
6	Italian (it) XML		1 702 047
7	Japanese (ja) XML		1 595 381
8	Portuguese (pt) XML		1 491 788
9	Polish (pl) XML		1 476 240
10	Chinese (zh) XML		1 177 384

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) XML		20 104
2	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		3 277
3	Simple English (simple) XML		2 427
4	Russian (ru) XML		2 068
5	Japanese (ja) XML		1 989
6	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		1 702
7	Chinese (zh) XML		1 260
8	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		933
9	Italian (it) XML		855
10	Portuguese (pt) XML		753

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) XML		1 056
2	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		399
3	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		317
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		184
5	Russian (ru) XML		181
6	Italian (it) XML		178
7	Polish (pl) XML		128
8	Japanese (ja) XML		122
9	Chinese (zh) XML		111
10	Dutch (nl) Extensible Markup Language		108

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	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		2
2	English (en) XML		2
3	Arabic (ar) لغة التأشير الوسوعة		1
4	Hungarian (hu) XML		1
5	Russian (ru) XML		1
6	Tamil (ta) எக்ஸ்எம்எல்		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) XML		0
8	Belarusian (be) XML		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) XML		0
10	Catalan (ca) Extensible Markup Language		0

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

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