COBOL

Quality:

COBOL - programming language with English-like syntax. This programming language is the 23^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 22^nd most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “COBOL” in English Wikipedia has 80.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 252 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.25 points.

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 22^nd most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 23^rd most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “COBOL” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “COBOL”, its content was written by 600 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2319 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

COBOL is on the 22^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 23^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1236 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6441 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #168 in February 2001
• Global: #168 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #797 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 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	Korean (ko) 코볼		85.2399
2	Arabic (ar) كوبول		82.6087
3	English (en) COBOL		80.7175
4	Catalan (ca) COBOL		64.2377
5	Norwegian (no) COBOL		59.2389
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) COBOL		53.5132
7	Spanish (es) COBOL		49.5755
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		43.056
9	Chinese (zh) COBOL		40.2372
10	French (fr) Cobol		38.26

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) COBOL		8 439 940
2	Spanish (es) COBOL		1 642 474
3	Japanese (ja) COBOL		1 566 735
4	German (de) COBOL		1 041 120
5	French (fr) Cobol		876 408
6	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		697 995
7	Russian (ru) Кобол		534 230
8	Polish (pl) COBOL		393 415
9	Italian (it) COBOL		366 247
10	Chinese (zh) COBOL		296 602

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		22 530
2	French (fr) Cobol		3 537
3	Japanese (ja) COBOL		2 860
4	German (de) COBOL		2 717
5	Spanish (es) COBOL		1 794
6	Russian (ru) Кобол		1 428
7	Chinese (zh) COBOL		1 265
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		1 156
9	Italian (it) COBOL		929
10	Polish (pl) COBOL		877

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) COBOL		600
2	German (de) COBOL		214
3	French (fr) Cobol		169
4	Italian (it) COBOL		120
5	Spanish (es) COBOL		109
6	Dutch (nl) COBOL		107
7	Japanese (ja) COBOL		83
8	Portuguese (pt) COBOL		77
9	Russian (ru) Кобол		72
10	Polish (pl) COBOL		63

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	Arabic (ar) كوبول		3
2	French (fr) Cobol		3
3	English (en) COBOL		2
4	Latin (la) COBOL		2
5	Polish (pl) COBOL		2
6	Urdu (ur) کوبول		2
7	Galician (gl) COBOL		1
8	Italian (it) COBOL		1
9	Dutch (nl) COBOL		1
10	Russian (ru) Кобол		1

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

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