Callback (computer programming)

Callback - any executable code that is passed as an argument to other code that is expected to call back the argument at a given time. Article "Callback (computer programming)" in English Wikipedia has 33.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 19 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Callback (computer programming)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Callback (computer programming)", its content was written by 185 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 442 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 119 times in English Wikipedia and cited 807 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11105 in October 2004
• Global: #21397 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22085 in December 2019
• Global: #38945 in December 2019

There are 20 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	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		33.7898
2	Ukrainian (uk) Callback (програмування)		24.1513
3	Tamil (ta) திருப்பி அழை (கணினியியல்)		23.7525
4	German (de) Rückruffunktion		22.8762
5	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		20.6934
6	Catalan (ca) Callback (programació)		20.31
7	Chinese (zh) 回调函数		19.4409
8	Japanese (ja) コールバック (情報工学)		16.2583
9	Portuguese (pt) Callback		11.7477
10	Greek (el) Callback (προγραμματισμός)		8.9329

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Callback (computer programming)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		2 867 340
2	Russian (ru) Callback (программирование)		472 660
3	German (de) Rückruffunktion		308 689
4	Japanese (ja) コールバック (情報工学)		230 473
5	Chinese (zh) 回调函数		185 927
6	French (fr) Fonction de rappel		161 558
7	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		161 264
8	Italian (it) Callback		102 072
9	Korean (ko) 콜백		99 254
10	Polish (pl) Wywołanie zwrotne		86 555

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Callback (computer programming)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		5 414
2	Russian (ru) Callback (программирование)		824
3	Chinese (zh) 回调函数		587
4	German (de) Rückruffunktion		363
5	Japanese (ja) コールバック (情報工学)		343
6	French (fr) Fonction de rappel		155
7	Korean (ko) 콜백		122
8	Portuguese (pt) Callback		102
9	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		94
10	Italian (it) Callback		86

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

Language versions of the article "Callback (computer programming)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		185
2	German (de) Rückruffunktion		52
3	French (fr) Fonction de rappel		35
4	Russian (ru) Callback (программирование)		32
5	Italian (it) Callback		29
6	Chinese (zh) 回调函数		16
7	Ukrainian (uk) Callback (програмування)		14
8	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		13
9	Polish (pl) Wywołanie zwrotne		12
10	Persian (fa) بازخوانی (برنامه‌نویسی رایانه)		9

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

Language versions of the article "Callback (computer programming)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Rückruffunktion		4
2	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Callback (програмування)		1
4	Catalan (ca) Callback (programació)		0
5	Greek (el) Callback (προγραμματισμός)		0
6	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		0
7	Persian (fa) بازخوانی (برنامه‌نویسی رایانه)		0
8	French (fr) Fonction de rappel		0
9	Italian (it) Callback		0
10	Japanese (ja) コールバック (情報工学)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Callback (computer programming)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Fonction de rappel		174
2	Ukrainian (uk) Callback (програмування)		147
3	English (en) Callback (computer programming)		119
4	Chinese (zh) 回调函数		119
5	Japanese (ja) コールバック (情報工学)		55
6	Russian (ru) Callback (программирование)		53
7	German (de) Rückruffunktion		49
8	Spanish (es) Retrollamada (informática)		19
9	Korean (ko) 콜백		16
10	Italian (it) Callback		15

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Callback (programació)
de	German Rückruffunktion
el	Greek Callback (προγραμματισμός)
en	English Callback (computer programming)
es	Spanish Retrollamada (informática)
fa	Persian بازخوانی (برنامه‌نویسی رایانه)
fr	French Fonction de rappel
it	Italian Callback
ja	Japanese コールバック (情報工学)
ko	Korean 콜백
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Attendekall
pl	Polish Wywołanie zwrotne
pt	Portuguese Callback
ru	Russian Callback (программирование)
ta	Tamil திருப்பி அழை (கணினியியல்)
th	Thai การเรียกกลับ (การเขียนโปรแกรม)
uk	Ukrainian Callback (програмування)
vi	Vietnamese Callback
zh	Chinese 回调函数
zhminnan	Min Nan Callback

Best Rank

English: #22085 12.2019

Global: #38945 12.2019

Best Rank

English: #11105 10.2004

Global: #21397 10.2004

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