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 73.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 86 references and 41 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 743^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1457^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 786^th most popular in all topics.

The 979^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2668^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 1891^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2619^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5539^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "C (programming language)" was edited by 21 authors in English Wikipedia (1891^st place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (5539^th place).

Since the creation of article "C (programming language)", its content was written by 1682 registered users of English Wikipedia (1457^th place) and edited by 6253 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (979^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 5138 times in English Wikipedia (4337^th place) and cited 35154 times in all languages (4516^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): #45 in October 2012
• Global: #69 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 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	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		89.0909
2	Slovenian (sl) Programski jezik C		80.5058
3	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		75.5335
4	English (en) C (programming language)		73.1114
5	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		56.5992
6	Turkish (tr) C (programlama dili)		54.359
7	Swedish (sv) C (programspråk)		54.3185
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) C (thêng-sek gí-giân)		54.0004
9	Thai (th) ภาษาซี		49.9704
10	Hungarian (hu) C (programozási nyelv)		48.8021

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) C (programming language)		47 602 733
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		9 866 088
3	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		5 395 015
4	French (fr) C (langage)		5 168 448
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		4 653 133
6	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		4 401 945
7	Japanese (ja) C言語		3 693 030
8	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		2 515 052
9	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		2 235 715
10	Chinese (zh) C语言		1 662 413

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)		166 890
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		22 768
3	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		20 252
4	French (fr) C (langage)		11 834
5	Japanese (ja) C言語		7 548
6	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		7 374
7	Simple English (simple) C (programming language)		7 346
8	Indonesian (id) C (bahasa pemrograman)		7 214
9	Chinese (zh) C语言		5 359
10	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		5 063

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)		1 682
2	German (de) C (Programmiersprache)		441
3	French (fr) C (langage)		398
4	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		279
5	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		279
6	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		247
7	Chinese (zh) C语言		222
8	Japanese (ja) C言語		197
9	Portuguese (pt) C (linguagem de programação)		164
10	Polish (pl) C (język programowania)		150

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)		21
2	Spanish (es) C (lenguaje de programación)		2
3	Russian (ru) Си (язык программирования)		2
4	Arabic (ar) سي (لغة برمجة)		1
5	Greek (el) C (γλώσσα προγραμματισμού)		1
6	Indonesian (id) C (bahasa pemrograman)		1
7	Italian (it) C (linguaggio di programmazione)		1
8	Japanese (ja) C言語		1
9	Uzbek (uz) C (dasturlash tili)		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) C (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0

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

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