Brainfuck

Quality:

Brainfuck - esoteric, minimalist programming language. This programming language is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 17^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Brainfuck" in English Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 13 references and 11 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 17^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 25^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Brainfuck" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Brainfuck", its content was written by 508 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1662 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Brainfuck is on the 17^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in English Wikipedia and cited 783 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #163 in March 2003
• Global: #310 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19 in August 2014
• Global: #40 in August 2014

There are 38 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	Catalan (ca) Brainfuck		57.2862
2	Serbian (sr) Brainfuck		48.8187
3	Simple English (simple) Brainfuck		32.386
4	German (de) Brainfuck		30.4381
5	Tamil (ta) பிரென்ஃப்ஃக்		30.0811
6	French (fr) Brainfuck		29.8888
7	English (en) Brainfuck		26.4393
8	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		24.0539
9	Arabic (ar) برين فاك		21.9408
10	Uzbek (uz) Brainfuck dasturlash tili		21.6465

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brainfuck		9 505 425
2	German (de) Brainfuck		1 258 409
3	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		1 217 096
4	French (fr) Brainfuck		717 215
5	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		632 816
6	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		373 353
7	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		214 562
8	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		197 109
9	Portuguese (pt) Brainfuck		190 267
10	Italian (it) Brainfuck		142 719

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) Brainfuck		29 488
2	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		3 453
3	German (de) Brainfuck		2 942
4	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		1 999
5	French (fr) Brainfuck		1 416
6	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		1 030
7	Portuguese (pt) Brainfuck		774
8	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		739
9	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		686
10	Italian (it) Brainfuck		398

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brainfuck		508
2	German (de) Brainfuck		184
3	French (fr) Brainfuck		178
4	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		93
5	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		72
6	Italian (it) Brainfuck		64
7	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		50
8	Hungarian (hu) Brainfuck		41
9	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		39
10	Hebrew (he) Brainfuck		37

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) Brainfuck		8
2	Simple English (simple) Brainfuck		1
3	Arabic (ar) برين فاك		0
4	Catalan (ca) Brainfuck		0
5	Czech (cs) Brainfuck		0
6	Danish (da) Brainfuck		0
7	German (de) Brainfuck		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Brainfuck (programlingvo)		0
9	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		0
10	Estonian (et) Brainfuck		0

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

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