COBOL

Quality:

COBOL - programming language with English-like syntax. This programming language is the 22^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 21^st most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "COBOL" in English Wikipedia has 81.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 259 references and 32 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 21^st most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 22^nd most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "COBOL" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "COBOL", its content was written by 589 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2259 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

COBOL is on the 21^st 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 1224 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6252 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #129 in February 2001
• Global: #129 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #798 in December 2013
• Global: #1430 in December 2013

There are 51 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	Korean (ko) 코볼		85.0366
2	English (en) COBOL		81.0674
3	Catalan (ca) COBOL		64.3293
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) COBOL		53.285
5	Spanish (es) COBOL		50.6038
6	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		42.8764
7	French (fr) Cobol		37.0119
8	German (de) COBOL		34.8783
9	Finnish (fi) COBOL		34.6127
10	Ukrainian (uk) COBOL		28.5501

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) COBOL		8 047 134
2	Spanish (es) COBOL		1 607 762
3	Japanese (ja) COBOL		1 530 844
4	German (de) COBOL		994 056
5	French (fr) Cobol		826 168
6	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		682 134
7	Russian (ru) Кобол		510 570
8	Polish (pl) COBOL		376 577
9	Italian (it) COBOL		352 418
10	Chinese (zh) COBOL		281 230

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) COBOL		34 607
2	German (de) COBOL		5 098
3	Japanese (ja) COBOL		3 772
4	Spanish (es) COBOL		3 567
5	French (fr) Cobol		2 645
6	Chinese (zh) COBOL		2 330
7	Polish (pl) COBOL		1 972
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		1 815
9	Russian (ru) Кобол		1 795
10	Italian (it) COBOL		1 480

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) COBOL		589
2	German (de) COBOL		211
3	French (fr) Cobol		160
4	Italian (it) COBOL		118
5	Spanish (es) COBOL		106
6	Dutch (nl) COBOL		103
7	Japanese (ja) COBOL		82
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		75
9	Russian (ru) Кобол		70
10	Polish (pl) COBOL		61

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	Dutch (nl) COBOL		2
2	Polish (pl) COBOL		2
3	Arabic (ar) كوبول		1
4	German (de) COBOL		1
5	English (en) COBOL		1
6	Korean (ko) 코볼		1
7	Serbian (sr) COBOL		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) COBOL		0
9	Belarusian (be) COBOL		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) COBOL		0

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

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