C++

Quality:

This programming language is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 7^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “C++” in English Wikipedia has 88.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 118 references and 15 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:

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The 2666^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 911^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2033^rd most popular in all topics.

The 797^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “C++” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “C++”, its content was written by 2015 registered users of English Wikipedia (911^th place) and edited by 7024 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (797^th place).

C++ is on the 7^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 5414 times in English Wikipedia (4383^rd place) and cited 37521 times in all languages (4493^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #186 in December 2003
• Global: #48 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #975 in October 2021
• Global: #936 in October 2021

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	English (en) C++		88.2022
2	German (de) C++		73.9776
3	Finnish (fi) C++		67.0847
4	Korean (ko) C++		66.6756
5	Turkish (tr) C++		65.4127
6	Indonesian (id) C++		59.5955
7	Portuguese (pt) C++		59.4843
8	Chinese (zh) C++		58.7536
9	Russian (ru) C++		58.0706
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) C++		55.2495

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) C++		29 224 077
2	Russian (ru) C++		8 195 174
3	Spanish (es) C++		6 674 120
4	German (de) C++		3 749 202
5	Japanese (ja) C++		2 207 883
6	Polish (pl) C++		2 080 378
7	French (fr) C++		2 016 260
8	Portuguese (pt) C++		1 673 276
9	Chinese (zh) C++		1 630 065
10	Italian (it) C++		1 401 172

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++		51 304
2	Russian (ru) C++		6 816
3	Spanish (es) C++		5 532
4	French (fr) C++		4 044
5	German (de) C++		3 966
6	Japanese (ja) C++		3 517
7	Chinese (zh) C++		1 986
8	Vietnamese (vi) C++		1 641
9	Portuguese (pt) C++		1 615
10	Polish (pl) C++		1 562

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) C++		2 015
2	German (de) C++		561
3	Russian (ru) C++		419
4	French (fr) C++		384
5	Spanish (es) C++		320
6	Italian (it) C++		248
7	Chinese (zh) C++		238
8	Polish (pl) C++		206
9	Hebrew (he) C++		151
10	Turkish (tr) C++		148

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	Turkish (tr) C++		4
2	English (en) C++		3
3	Persian (fa) C++		2
4	Italian (it) C++		2
5	Arabic (ar) سي++		1
6	Belarusian (be) C++		1
7	Catalan (ca) C++		1
8	Spanish (es) C++		1
9	Japanese (ja) C++		1
10	Latin (la) C++		1

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