PL/I

PL/I - procedural, imperative computer programming language. This programming language is the 96^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 92^nd most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “PL/I” in German Wikipedia has 6.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.34 points.

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 “PL/I”, its content was written by 79 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 913 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

PL/I is on the 92^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 96^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 86 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2551 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #248 in June 2003
• Global: #1503 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #35051 in November 2025
• Global: #26980 in November 2025

There are 30 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) PL/I		67.8072
2	Portuguese (pt) PL/I		22.2108
3	Korean (ko) PL/I		19.7719
4	Finnish (fi) PL/I		19.1642
5	French (fr) PL/I		18.9981
6	Russian (ru) ПЛ/1		17.2372
7	Belarusian (be) ПЛ/1		16.3519
8	Bulgarian (bg) PL/I		16.044
9	Malay (ms) Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I		15.905
10	Japanese (ja) PL/I		14.495

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

The most popular language versions of the article "PL/I" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PL/I		1 658 960
2	Japanese (ja) PL/I		303 000
3	German (de) PL/I		231 965
4	Russian (ru) ПЛ/1		212 569
5	Spanish (es) PL/1		162 799
6	French (fr) PL/I		110 662
7	Polish (pl) PL/I		95 057
8	Chinese (zh) PL/I		62 260
9	Portuguese (pt) PL/I		60 940
10	Italian (it) PL/I		56 108

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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 "PL/I" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PL/I		8 544
2	Portuguese (pt) PL/I		1 501
3	Japanese (ja) PL/I		848
4	German (de) PL/I		503
5	Spanish (es) PL/1		392
6	French (fr) PL/I		368
7	Russian (ru) ПЛ/1		243
8	Chinese (zh) PL/I		234
9	Italian (it) PL/I		204
10	Czech (cs) PL/I		67

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PL/I		309
2	French (fr) PL/I		82
3	German (de) PL/I		79
4	Italian (it) PL/I		57
5	Russian (ru) ПЛ/1		55
6	Hebrew (he) PL/I		41
7	Japanese (ja) PL/I		37
8	Dutch (nl) PL/1		33
9	Polish (pl) PL/I		24
10	Portuguese (pt) PL/I		22

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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 "PL/I" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PL/I		1
2	Belarusian (be) ПЛ/1		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) PL/I		0
4	Catalan (ca) PL/I		0
5	Czech (cs) PL/I		0
6	Danish (da) PL/I		0
7	German (de) PL/I		0
8	Spanish (es) PL/1		0
9	Estonian (et) PL/I		0
10	Persian (fa) پی‌ال/۱		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 "PL/I" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) PL/I		321
2	Polish (pl) PL/I		250
3	Chinese (zh) PL/I		221
4	Ukrainian (uk) PL/I		198
5	French (fr) PL/I		178
6	Japanese (ja) PL/I		165
7	Norwegian (no) PL/I		157
8	Czech (cs) PL/I		130
9	Dutch (nl) PL/1		99
10	Italian (it) PL/I		98

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian ПЛ/1
bg	Bulgarian PL/I
ca	Catalan PL/I
cs	Czech PL/I
da	Danish PL/I
de	German PL/I
en	English PL/I
es	Spanish PL/1
et	Estonian PL/I
fa	Persian پی‌ال/۱
fi	Finnish PL/I
fr	French PL/I
gl	Galician PL/1
he	Hebrew PL/I
hr	Croatian PL/1
hu	Hungarian PL/I
it	Italian PL/I
ja	Japanese PL/I
ko	Korean PL/I
ms	Malay Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
nl	Dutch PL/1
no	Norwegian PL/I
pl	Polish PL/I
pt	Portuguese PL/I
ru	Russian ПЛ/1
sh	Serbo-Croatian PL/I
sk	Slovak PL/I
sv	Swedish PL/1
uk	Ukrainian PL/I
zh	Chinese PL/I

Best Rank

German: #35051 11.2025

Global: #26980 11.2025

Best Rank

German: #248 06.2003

Global: #1503 11.2001

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