BASIC

Quality:

This programming language is the 22^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 25^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “BASIC” in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 110 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 (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 25^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6276^th most popular in AI.

The 22^nd most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “BASIC” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “BASIC”, its content was written by 797 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3229 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6276^th place).

BASIC is on the 25^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 22^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1752 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10741 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6 in July 2002
• Global: #3 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10957 in April 2015
• Global: #6789 in February 2008

There are 50 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) BASIC		90.0153
2	Hebrew (he) BASIC		43.1607
3	Catalan (ca) BASIC		41.5912
4	French (fr) Basic (langage)		40.5128
5	Italian (it) BASIC		39.1809
6	Russian (ru) Бейсик		34.7226
7	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		33.5813
8	Japanese (ja) BASIC		29.9593
9	Basque (eu) BASIC		29.9032
10	German (de) BASIC		29.3186

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BASIC		8 284 240
2	Spanish (es) BASIC		1 741 217
3	Russian (ru) Бейсик		1 534 202
4	Japanese (ja) BASIC		1 120 792
5	German (de) BASIC		952 061
6	French (fr) Basic (langage)		652 820
7	Italian (it) BASIC		511 928
8	Polish (pl) BASIC		407 112
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		387 414
10	Chinese (zh) BASIC		287 625

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) BASIC		14 161
2	Japanese (ja) BASIC		1 890
3	Russian (ru) Бейсик		1 644
4	German (de) BASIC		1 157
5	Chinese (zh) BASIC		1 011
6	French (fr) Basic (langage)		977
7	Spanish (es) BASIC		857
8	Italian (it) BASIC		557
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		388
10	Polish (pl) BASIC		362

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BASIC		797
2	French (fr) Basic (langage)		301
3	German (de) BASIC		253
4	Spanish (es) BASIC		159
5	Russian (ru) Бейсик		153
6	Japanese (ja) BASIC		134
7	Italian (it) BASIC		125
8	Dutch (nl) BASIC		120
9	Hebrew (he) BASIC		87
10	Chinese (zh) BASIC		73

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) BASIC		3
2	French (fr) Basic (langage)		2
3	Catalan (ca) BASIC		1
4	Basque (eu) BASIC		1
5	Finnish (fi) BASIC		1
6	Hungarian (hu) BASIC		1
7	Japanese (ja) BASIC		1
8	Arabic (ar) بيسيك		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) BASIC		0
10	Belarusian (be) BASIC		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information