Church encoding

Church encoding - representation of the natural numbers as higher-order functions. Article “Church encoding” in English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Church encoding” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Church encoding”, its content was written by 115 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 337 times in English Wikipedia and cited 448 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2628 in March 2002
• Global: #3034 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #87173 in December 2013
• Global: #152282 in December 2013

There are 9 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	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		45.4947
2	English (en) Church encoding		44.4823
3	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		19.9206
4	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		16.883
5	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		16.4451
6	German (de) Church-Kodierung		5.0162
7	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		2.0273
8	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		1.4289
9	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		0.159

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Church encoding" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Church encoding		768 467
2	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		33 563
3	German (de) Church-Kodierung		25 497
4	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		18 028
5	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		15 276
6	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		7 794
7	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		6 517
8	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		975
9	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		847

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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 "Church encoding" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Church encoding		3 321
2	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		164
3	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		161
4	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		45
5	German (de) Church-Kodierung		32
6	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		17
7	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		15
8	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		8
9	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Church encoding		115
2	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		20
3	German (de) Church-Kodierung		19
4	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		13
5	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		12
6	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		9
7	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		6
8	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		4
9	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		1

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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 "Church encoding" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Church encoding		1
2	German (de) Church-Kodierung		0
3	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		0
4	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		0
5	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		0
6	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		0
8	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		0
9	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		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 "Church encoding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Church encoding		337
2	Chinese (zh) 邱奇数		83
3	Russian (ru) Кодирование Чёрча		8
4	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Church		6
5	German (de) Church-Kodierung		5
6	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς		3
7	Persian (fa) کدگذاری چرچ		3
8	Polish (pl) Liczby naturalne Churcha		2
9	Italian (it) Booleano di Church		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Church-Kodierung
el	Greek Κωδικοποίηση Τσερτς
en	English Church encoding
fa	Persian کدگذاری چرچ
it	Italian Booleano di Church
pl	Polish Liczby naturalne Churcha
pt	Portuguese Codificação de Church
ru	Russian Кодирование Чёрча
zh	Chinese 邱奇数

Best Rank

English: #87173 12.2013

Global: #152282 12.2013

Best Rank

English: #2628 03.2002

Global: #3034 03.2002

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