C (programming language)

Quality:

C - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 2^nd most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "C (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 75.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 96 references and 42 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 755^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1403^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 2^nd most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 798^th most popular in all topics.

The 989^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1913^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6616^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1770^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3736^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "C (programming language)" was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6616^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3736^th place).

Since the creation of article "C (programming language)", its content was written by 1736 registered users of English Wikipedia (1403^rd place) and edited by 6387 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (989^th place).

C is on the 2^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 5186 times in English Wikipedia (4532^nd place) and cited 36202 times in all languages (4520^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9 in February 2002
• Global: #11 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #44 in October 2012
• Global: #67 in October 2012

There are 54 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, 2025 (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	Slovenian (sl) Programski jezik C		92.2683
2	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		90.9091
3	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		75.3818
4	English (en) C (programming language)		75.1497
5	Swedish (sv) C (programspråk)		56.6989
6	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		56.2016
7	Turkish (tr) C (programlama dili)		55.1544
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) C (thêng-sek gí-giân)		54.0004
9	Thai (th) ภาษาซี		49.8515
10	Hungarian (hu) C (programozási nyelv)		48.8157

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) C (programming language)		49 500 763
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		10 135 360
3	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		5 529 209
4	French (fr) C (langage)		5 326 996
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		4 896 805
6	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		4 482 876
7	Japanese (ja) C言語		3 772 424
8	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		2 584 982
9	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		2 270 168
10	Chinese (zh) C语言		1 719 544

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) C (programming language)		183 245
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		22 163
3	French (fr) C (langage)		18 487
4	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		16 785
5	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		14 638
6	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		7 140
7	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		7 047
8	Japanese (ja) C言語		6 625
9	Simple English (simple) C (programming language)		6 591
10	Indonesian (id) C (bahasa pemrograman)		6 333

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) C (programming language)		1 736
2	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		451
3	French (fr) C (langage)		409
4	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		286
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		282
6	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		253
7	Chinese (zh) C语言		227
8	Japanese (ja) C言語		199
9	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		166
10	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		155

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) C (programming language)		11
2	Arabic (ar) سي (لغة برمجة)		3
3	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		3
4	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		3
5	Simple English (simple) C (programming language)		3
6	French (fr) C (langage)		2
7	Latin (la) C (lingua programmationis)		2
8	Galician (gl) C (linguaxe de programación)		1
9	Hungarian (hu) C (programozási nyelv)		1
10	Japanese (ja) C言語		1

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

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