API

Quality:

Application programming interface - software interface between computers and/or programs. Article “API” in English Wikipedia has 78.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 84 references and 17 sections.

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:

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The 2786^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7822^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2913^th most popular in all topics.

The 7246^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “API” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “API”, its content was written by 949 registered users of English Wikipedia (7822^nd place) and edited by 3010 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7246^th place).

The article is cited 4651 times in English Wikipedia (5519^th place) and cited 23041 times in all languages (7423^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #311 in February 2002
• Global: #394 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1012 in July 2013
• Global: #1317 in April 2015

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) API		78.7258
2	Korean (ko) API		62.5833
3	Armenian (hy) Application Programming Interface (API)		53.2868
4	Estonian (et) Rakendusliides		40.682
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Programmeringsgrensesnitt		35.9998
6	Tamil (ta) செயலி நிரலாக்க இடைமுகம்		35.776
7	French (fr) Interface de programmation		34.3695
8	Finnish (fi) Ohjelmointirajapinta		33.1704
9	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションプログラミングインタフェース		32.5261
10	Chinese (zh) 应用程序接口		29.5272

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) API		28 684 233
2	Russian (ru) API		4 937 894
3	Spanish (es) API		3 336 377
4	German (de) Programmierschnittstelle		3 193 152
5	French (fr) Interface de programmation		2 949 779
6	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションプログラミングインタフェース		2 121 971
7	Chinese (zh) 应用程序接口		1 810 877
8	Italian (it) Application programming interface		1 371 011
9	Polish (pl) Interfejs programowania aplikacji		1 260 247
10	Portuguese (pt) Interface de programação de aplicações		1 234 242

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) API		34 520
2	German (de) Programmierschnittstelle		5 982
3	Russian (ru) API		5 250
4	French (fr) Interface de programmation		4 321
5	Spanish (es) API		3 411
6	Chinese (zh) 应用程序接口		1 951
7	Italian (it) Application programming interface		1 873
8	Korean (ko) API		1 603
9	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションプログラミングインタフェース		1 397
10	Dutch (nl) Application programming interface		1 383

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) API		949
2	French (fr) Interface de programmation		173
3	Russian (ru) API		160
4	German (de) Programmierschnittstelle		150
5	Portuguese (pt) Interface de programação de aplicações		135
6	Italian (it) Application programming interface		125
7	Spanish (es) API		102
8	Chinese (zh) 应用程序接口		90
9	Dutch (nl) Application programming interface		89
10	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションプログラミングインタフェース		86

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) Interface de programmation		3
2	Dutch (nl) Application programming interface		2
3	Serbian (sr) API		2
4	Arabic (ar) واجهة برمجة التطبيقات		1
5	Danish (da) Application programming interface		1
6	English (en) API		1
7	Korean (ko) API		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Tətbiqi proqramlaşdırma interfeysi		0
9	Belarusian (be) API		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Приложно-програмен интерфейс		0

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

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