Fortran

Quality:

Fortran - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 20^th most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “Fortran” in German Wikipedia has 50.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 24 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:

The 20^th most popular in programming languages in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 19^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Fortran” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fortran”, its content was written by 182 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2547 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fortran is on the 20^th place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 386 times in German Wikipedia and cited 10014 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #488 in October 2002
• Global: #255 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #12526 in October 2008
• Global: #5737 in January 2008

There are 52 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) Fortran		88.6335
2	French (fr) Fortran		77.3907
3	Chinese (zh) Fortran		74.2659
4	Ukrainian (uk) Фортран		73.3875
5	Russian (ru) Фортран		57.3404
6	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		56.0725
7	German (de) Fortran		50.2732
8	Catalan (ca) Fortran		49.0916
9	Armenian (hy) Ֆորտրան		41.7707
10	Japanese (ja) Fortran		39.3494

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fortran		10 420 867
2	Spanish (es) Fortran		1 506 082
3	Russian (ru) Фортран		1 426 762
4	Japanese (ja) Fortran		1 348 956
5	German (de) Fortran		1 182 232
6	French (fr) Fortran		814 734
7	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		567 708
8	Chinese (zh) Fortran		527 928
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		445 947
10	Italian (it) Fortran		444 858

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) Fortran		20 832
2	Japanese (ja) Fortran		2 475
3	Russian (ru) Фортран		2 068
4	German (de) Fortran		1 867
5	French (fr) Fortran		1 527
6	Chinese (zh) Fortran		1 196
7	Spanish (es) Fortran		920
8	Italian (it) Fortran		647
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		634
10	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		357

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fortran		696
2	German (de) Fortran		182
3	French (fr) Fortran		164
4	Russian (ru) Фортран		128
5	Japanese (ja) Fortran		124
6	Italian (it) Fortran		97
7	Spanish (es) Fortran		95
8	Polish (pl) Fortran		81
9	Dutch (nl) Fortran		80
10	Chinese (zh) Fortran		61

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) Fortran		3
2	German (de) Fortran		2
3	Japanese (ja) Fortran		2
4	Arabic (ar) فورتران		1
5	Catalan (ca) Fortran		1
6	Basque (eu) FORTRAN		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Fortran		1
8	Polish (pl) Fortran		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Fortran		0
10	Belarusian (be) Fortran		0

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

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