C (programming language)

Quality:

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 76.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 103 references and 36 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.51 points.

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 764^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1373^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 815^th most popular in all topics.

The 1008^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2682^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 9862^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2559^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9853^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “C (programming language)” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9862^nd place) and written by 21 authors in all languages (9853^rd place).

Since the creation of article “C (programming language)”, its content was written by 1785 registered users of English Wikipedia (1373^rd place) and edited by 6422 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1008^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 5239 times in English Wikipedia (4573^rd place) and cited 36889 times in all languages (4577^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): #43 in October 2012
• Global: #68 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, 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	Slovenian (sl) Programski jezik C		91.8973
2	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		90.9091
3	English (en) C (programming language)		76.594
4	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		75.9119
5	Korean (ko) C (프로그래밍 언어)		74.8967
6	Swedish (sv) C (programspråk)		56.5439
7	Turkish (tr) C (programlama dili)		56.2075
8	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		55.5524
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) C (thêng-sek gí-giân)		53.9746
10	Croatian (hr) C (programski jezik)		51.8186

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) C (programming language)		51 455 257
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		10 325 497
3	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		5 728 022
4	French (fr) C (langage)		5 545 049
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		5 167 208
6	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		4 560 454
7	Japanese (ja) C言語		3 851 573
8	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		2 669 423
9	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		2 308 093
10	Chinese (zh) C语言		1 775 557

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)		138 256
2	French (fr) C (langage)		17 804
3	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		16 385
4	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		12 950
5	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		11 670
6	Indonesian (id) C (bahasa pemrograman)		5 752
7	Japanese (ja) C言語		5 709
8	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		5 466
9	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		4 653
10	Vietnamese (vi) C (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		2 725

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)		1 785
2	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		459
3	French (fr) C (langage)		418
4	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		288
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		286
6	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		255
7	Chinese (zh) C语言		233
8	Japanese (ja) C言語		202
9	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		166
10	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		159

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)		8
2	Indonesian (id) C (bahasa pemrograman)		2
3	Thai (th) ภาษาซี		2
4	Danish (da) C (programmeringssprog)		1
5	Persian (fa) سی (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		1
6	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		1
7	Japanese (ja) C言語		1
8	Korean (ko) C (프로그래밍 언어)		1
9	Tamil (ta) சி (நிரலாக்க மொழி)		1
10	Turkish (tr) C (programlama dili)		1

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

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