AWK

AWK - data-driven programming language made by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. This programming language is the 59^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 59^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "AWK" in English Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 28 references and 22 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "AWK", its content was written by 274 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

AWK is on the 59^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 59^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 398 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4333 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #120 in August 2001
• Global: #162 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19647 in November 2014
• Global: #25498 in November 2014

There are 39 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 August 1, 2024 (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) AWK		55.2066
2	Estonian (et) AWK		47.1111
3	Greek (el) AWK		35.8561
4	Hungarian (hu) Awk		33.7342
5	Hebrew (he) AWK		31.4839
6	Chinese (zh) AWK		30.8401
7	Finnish (fi) AWK		30.0772
8	Romanian (ro) AWK		29.8169
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Awk		28.2468
10	Polish (pl) AWK		27.9379

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

The most popular language versions of the article "AWK" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		3 386 298
2	German (de) Awk		634 969
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		517 849
4	Russian (ru) AWK		402 076
5	Spanish (es) AWK		314 936
6	French (fr) Awk		299 944
7	Polish (pl) AWK		276 309
8	Chinese (zh) AWK		140 490
9	Italian (it) Awk		92 331
10	Portuguese (pt) AWK		83 661

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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 "AWK" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		7 743
2	Japanese (ja) AWK		924
3	German (de) Awk		887
4	Russian (ru) AWK		686
5	Spanish (es) AWK		450
6	French (fr) Awk		419
7	Chinese (zh) AWK		292
8	Polish (pl) AWK		265
9	Portuguese (pt) AWK		219
10	Italian (it) Awk		144

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK		274
2	German (de) Awk		128
3	French (fr) Awk		82
4	Japanese (ja) AWK		72
5	Italian (it) Awk		66
6	Dutch (nl) AWK		55
7	Russian (ru) AWK		51
8	Spanish (es) AWK		42
9	Hungarian (hu) Awk		39
10	Polish (pl) AWK		37

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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 "AWK" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) أوك		1
2	Japanese (ja) AWK		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) AWK		0
4	Catalan (ca) Awk		0
5	Czech (cs) AWK		0
6	Danish (da) AWK (programmeringssprog)		0
7	German (de) Awk		0
8	Greek (el) AWK		0
9	English (en) AWK		0
10	Spanish (es) AWK		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 "AWK" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) AWK		398
2	Chinese (zh) AWK		328
3	Polish (pl) AWK		322
4	Ukrainian (uk) AWK		300
5	Czech (cs) AWK		251
6	Japanese (ja) AWK		247
7	Italian (it) Awk		221
8	Russian (ru) AWK		211
9	French (fr) Awk		210
10	Korean (ko) AWK		168

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أوك
bg	Bulgarian AWK
ca	Catalan Awk
cs	Czech AWK
da	Danish AWK (programmeringssprog)
de	German Awk
el	Greek AWK
en	English AWK
es	Spanish AWK
et	Estonian AWK
fa	Persian AWK
fi	Finnish AWK
fr	French Awk
gl	Galician AWK
he	Hebrew AWK
hr	Croatian AWK
hu	Hungarian Awk
hy	Armenian AWK
it	Italian Awk
ja	Japanese AWK
ko	Korean AWK
ms	Malay AWK
nl	Dutch AWK
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Awk
no	Norwegian Awk
pl	Polish AWK
pt	Portuguese AWK
ro	Romanian AWK
ru	Russian AWK
sh	Serbo-Croatian AWK
simple	Simple English Awk
sk	Slovak AWK
sr	Serbian AWK
sv	Swedish Awk
th	Thai ภาษาออว์ก
tr	Turkish AWK
uk	Ukrainian AWK
vi	Vietnamese AWK
zh	Chinese AWK

Best Rank

English: #19647 11.2014

Global: #25498 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #120 08.2001

Global: #162 08.2001

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