ALGOL

Quality:

ALGOL - family of imperative computer programming languages. This programming language is the 82^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 88^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “ALGOL” in English Wikipedia has 44.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.88 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 88^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 82^nd most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “ALGOL”, its content was written by 324 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1220 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

ALGOL is on the 88^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 82^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 519 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4168 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #665 in August 2001
• Global: #778 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8471 in March 2014
• Global: #18087 in March 2014

There are 42 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) ALGOL		44.6815
2	Malay (ms) ALGOL		41.6545
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		37.3692
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		27.2685
5	Esperanto (eo) Algolo (programlingvo)		22.175
6	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		21.0784
7	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		19.9429
8	Russian (ru) Алгол		18.9339
9	Finnish (fi) ALGOL		18.5761
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) ALGOL		18.4799

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL		1 989 251
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		541 992
3	Spanish (es) ALGOL		341 474
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		222 484
5	German (de) ALGOL		195 839
6	French (fr) Algol (langage)		150 579
7	Polish (pl) ALGOL		142 334
8	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		114 971
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		88 586
10	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		66 921

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) ALGOL		4 058
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		1 216
3	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		619
4	German (de) ALGOL		393
5	French (fr) Algol (langage)		317
6	Spanish (es) ALGOL		261
7	Italian (it) ALGOL		181
8	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		177
9	Polish (pl) ALGOL		154
10	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		130

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ALGOL		324
2	French (fr) Algol (langage)		88
3	Russian (ru) Алгол		77
4	Italian (it) ALGOL		60
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		51
6	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		50
7	German (de) ALGOL		46
8	Spanish (es) ALGOL		46
9	Danish (da) ALGOL		42
10	Polish (pl) ALGOL		38

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	Arabic (ar) ألغول (لغة برمجة)		1
2	Danish (da) ALGOL		1
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		1
4	Hungarian (hu) ALGOL		1
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Algol dili		0
7	Belarusian (be) Алгол		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) ALGOL		0
9	Catalan (ca) ALGOL		0
10	Czech (cs) ALGOL		0

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

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